Thursday, February 4, 2016

Moonspell - Under The Moonspell (1994, EP)

It was in 1994 that Portugal's Moonspell would put out this EP of lush gothic Satanic Hymns, with soundscapes befitting an Iberian operation, including and exceeding Pan-Mediterranean guitar, North African-influenced percussions, Arabic-influenced singings and melodies, etc. Moonspell would expand far beyond here, into greater realms of blackened epic folk, vampire goth, industrial psych, etc, but I am glad I came across this having never heard it before despite having had a secondhand copy of 1995's Wolfheart in the couple of years post release ever since. That is a rad album, on both sides of too-much-ness, as is the Moonspell way, which makes it so good.

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