Metal Anarchy

Moonspell will be releasing a new live album/film, titled “Opus Diabolicum,” on October 31. The effort features the band’s October 26, 2024 show with the 45-piece Orquestra Sinfonietta de Lisboa at MEO Arena in Lisbon, Portugal. DVD/Blu-ray, CD, vinyl, and digital formats will be available.

“Opus Diabolicum” track listing:

01. “Tungstennio” (CD + DVD/Blu-ray only)
02. “Em Nome do Medo”
03. “1755”
04. “In Tremor Die”
05. “Desastre”
06. “Ruinas”
07. “Breathe (Until We Are No More)”
08. “Extinct”
09. “Proliferation”
10. “Finisterra”
11. “Everything Invaded”
12. “Scorpion Flower”
13. “Vampiria”
14. “Alma Mater”
15. “Fullmoon Madness”

Frontman Fernando Ribeiro commented:

“I have never been the one to push Moonspell into an orchestral direction. I mean, like any fan, I can recognize the impact classical had over heavy metal (Quorthon, from Bathory, used to quote Wagner as his favorite ‘band’) and in my musical collection Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Ravel could be found, shoulder to shoulder with the aforementioned Bathory, Celtic Frost, Sarcófago or [Iron] Maiden. But I wasn’t a fan of the metal-meets-orchestra efforts myself and when I approached Jaime (Gomez Arellano) to mix this beast, I asked him: have you heard [Metallica’s] ‘S&M’ and other ‘live-with-an-orchestra’ metal bands’ albums? We want nothing like that!

This is work of passion: truly the work of the devil (opus diabolicum): imperfect, unprocessed, untamed. A release made by friends to all the friends we have around this goth forsaken world and that in an arena in Lisbon or in a sweaty club in Texas, keep the spell going, until we are no more.”

A live video for “Vampiria” from the set can be found below. Ribeiro added the following about that:

“‘Vampiria’ is a Moonspell classic, as old as time itself. It was a first choice for us because it’s actually one of the most remarkable arrangements of the whole show, which granted new blood and life (aren’t they the same?) to a timeless, eternal song. See it risen from the dead with your own eyes, after ‘travelling oceans of time’