Memorial (Moonspell album)

Memorial
Studio album by Moonspell
Released 24 April 2006
Recorded November 2005
Genre Gothic metal, melodic death metal, melodic black metal, doom metal
Length 52:02
Label Steamhammer
Producer Waldemar Sorychta
Moonspell chronology
The Antidote
(2003)The Antidote2003		 Memorial
(2006)		 The Great Silver Eye
(2007)The Great Silver Eye2007
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Memorial is the seventh studio album by Portuguese gothic metal band, Moonspell, released on April 24, 2006 by SPV. The album is available in two versions: a standard edition and a limited 'digipack' edition with the "Atlantic" bonus track.

On January 16, 2007, Memorial was certified gold by the Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa for selling over 10,000 copies in Portugal. This is the first time a Portuguese heavy metal group has received this award.[2]

Each of the limited versions and the standard edition end with a different song, but on every version the final track ends with a 6-minute wolves-howling outro ("The Sleep of the Sea"), hence there are actually two official versions of "Best Forgotten".

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."In Memoriam"01:25
2."Finisterra"04:08
3."Memento Mori"04:27
4."Sons of Earth"01:51
5."Blood Tells"04:08
6."Upon the Blood of Men"04:55
7."At the Image of Pain"04:21
8."Sanguine"05:50
9."Proliferation"02:39
10."Once It Was Ours!"04:53
11."Mare Nostrum"01:56
12."Luna"04:42
13."Best Forgotten" (12:47 if it includes the hidden track, "The Sleep of the Sea")06:47
Total length:52:02

DVD (Special Edition) Live at CC Estudio 2

  1. "Memento Mori"
  2. "Blood Tells"
  3. "Sanguine"
  4. "Best Forgotten"

Live at Vilar de Mouros

  1. "In Memoriam"
  2. "Finisterra"
  3. "Memento Mori"
  4. "Blood Tells"
  5. "Proliferation"
  6. "Upon the Blood of Men"

Videos

  1. "Luna"
  2. "Finisterra"
  3. "Making of Finisterra"

Personnel

  • Fernando Ribeiro - vocals
  • Mike Gaspar - drums
  • Pedro Paixão - keyboards, samples, guitars
  • Ricardo Amorim - keyboards, guitars

Additional musicians

Production

  • Wojtek Blasiak - artwork, layout
  • Adriano Esteves - cover art, layout
  • Dennis Koehne - engineering assistant
  • Siggi Bemm - engineering assistant
  • Waldemar Sorychta - producer, mixing, engineering
  • Paulo Moreira - photography

Charts

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Portuguese Albums Chart[3] 1

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic review
  2. ↑ "Moonspell: Memorial certified gold in Portugal". Blabbermouth.net. 2007-01-16. Archived from the original on 2007-01-21. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
  3. ↑ Steffen Hung. "Portuguese charts portal". portuguesecharts.com. Retrieved 2012-03-01.


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