Portuguese gothic metal titans Moonspell have announced their long-awaited new studio album, Far From God, arriving July 3 via Napalm Records. Alongside the reveal, the band has dropped a cinematic music video for the crushing title track.
Moonspell frontman Fernando Ribeiro comments on the track: “I lost my faith and hope in vampires for quite a few years. They became the clowns of Hollywood, the cheap Halloween shop customs, the old and disgraceful Princes from the East.
“Until the film director Robert Eggers brought us Nosferatu in 2024 and I was immediately attracted back to that tragic, romantic character who Bram Stoker immortalized in his letters. I wrote ‘Far from God’ in just one breath and it’s our first song about vampiric love in ages.
“I confess I felt the urge of, together with Moonspell, saving the face of gothic metal which became hostage of semi-tuned operatic female vocalists, simpleton and crunchy guitar riffs; and of lyrical content that would make Dracula impale himself with a stake in his bloodless heart. This song is the essence of this album, its title, its video, its soul. And you can even feel the fire of daylight burning into yours and your lover’s skin.”
Far From God delves deep into gothic storytelling: Baudelairian love, existential guilt, Christ-like resurrections, and the nobility of nightbound creatures.
“To create Far From God, we had to wait for the muse,” Ribeiro admits. “Again, she didn’t fail us and revealed herself in the most mysterious and beautiful ways to us. It took us five long years of hit and miss, of despairing to the point of thinking we didn’t have it anymore, and why should we at all create new music? But I’m glad we persisted.
“Far From God is a true crusade against the decline of the style in the past few years, a darkly crafted statement that Moonspell is here to stay and to claim our throne. No politics, no socials, no intervention, just sickly romantic love, vampires, werewolves so we can all die of beauty, in peace and elegance. Goth bless you.”
Far From God was produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Sólstafir, Ghost) and is being called the “21st century Irreligious” in the press release. Here’s hoping, right? Pre-orders for Far From God are available here.
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