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27 years ago!!!
What's your favorite Irreligious moments???
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The other day as we gear up for writing a new album, Ricardo (Amorim) and Pedro (Paixão) asked me for "directions" and the only thing I can say (because I am more lost than the majority of people) is that we should make"songs", the greatest, the better.
In fact, we're always been about making songs. I strongly believe we made "great" songs but also really lousy ones. When I became a father and had to help raise my son, I quickly found out that, besides all pediatric theories and self-help books, kids need nothing else than attention. And, since then, I believe I can apply this fact to the majority of the "important things" in life: women, books, friends, work and ...songs. They all need nothing but attention.
What separates a great song from a so-so or utterly mediocre song is the degree of attention you invest into the song, so to speak. Of course all bands have their own goals and methods while songwriting/producing and we all share different feelings towards our music. The Moonspell "vibe" was never to be happy and to move forward seems the only sensible thing to do. That explains a lot of our so much debated "evolution".
But there's more: behind any form of attention must be love. Loving is caring and focusing in what or whom needs your attention. Love is also pain and disappointment, most of it, actually, and the path to a song might be very fucking frustrating sometimes. Also there's no formula and as an active band, and, particularly, as record buyers, we are often sad to see Metal has become very formulaic and many bands play for the algorithm that they think defines their fan base. That doesn't happen with us and we hope it never will.
Far from any moralization regarding other bands,we feel that, for us, it's a fact that the non-conformity between our albuns (even the most successful ones) is a proof of authenticity. In music, you don't find, you search. And if you find anything good and create a comfort zone out of it, then you're career managing, not songwriting.
I have always been into a lot of music and founds songs everywhere: in Morbid Angel's God of Emptiness, Bolt Thrower's World Eater or Type O Negative's Love you to death or Katatonia's Criminals or Maiden's Aces High. Some of those songs have structures, others don't but there's something about them that sticks to the skin of your mind and helps us facing life and its challenges. There's a sing to be born to, to die for, to make love to, or to cry your eyes out. Even outside the extreme music quarters, there's a multitude of songs to be found. There are bands and artists which are eximious songwriters like Cave, Cohen, P.J.Harvey, Bonnie Prince Billy, Dead can Dance, Pink Floyd, The Beatles and all of them have nothing but songs to offer in their many shapes and forms.
A song is an experience.
Nothing more but, especially, nothing else.
Note:
The easiest song we ever wrote was Opium. It's so short that everything flew into its right place in a matter of minutes and its original draft hasn't changed that much. Also, it has no real "chorus". Regardless its trouble-less "birth", attention has been devoted exactly because we needed to make a short song with no chorus solid and bright and popular.
One of the hardest songs to come into life was Eurotica from Sin and we felt like doing a totally (and never recorded live version) of it that we played during the It's a sin! Tour back in 1997, 98. When we tried to lay it on tape, I believe we were not very experienced with sampled guitar loops and electronics to make it work. Also Valdemar and Siggi Bemm, back then our team of producers, didn't get the right vibe out of it and the album version is stale and lifeless, lacks energy, heaviness and contrast between verses and chorus which was a really remarkable feature of music done in the 90's.
Our most remarkable song it's, perhaps, Alma Mater. I think it's that riff that makes it so distinguishable. It was written by one of our original members, the guitar player Duarte/Mantus and according to him, a huge Metallica fan, the riff was made trying to copy the chords progression of Nothing else matters, which for me it's quite bizarre to follow as I can only listen to its undeniable metal with a folk flavour to it.
On our last album, Hermitage, I believe we have good songs too like The Greater Good, All or Nothing, The Hermit Saints or my favorite Without Rule and we enjoyed a good time together writing and adding some proggy layers into it. The reactions were very favorably, considering we haven't mouth-feed our fans and went for something else.
Well, time to "shut up" and go write some songs.
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Have a great week and a greater 2023!
Peace on earth and good songs is all I wish for. Yours,
Fernando
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One year ago Fernando was a guest to the non-so anonymous agitator @AlanAverillNemtheanga on his thought-provoking, tongue in cheek podcast. Like Michel Houellebecq would put it on his Covid essay "the world will not change and it will just bit en peu pire.
Check it out and don't forget to subscribe Alan's channel for more and deeper.
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MOONSPELL featuring @DulcePontesOndeiaMusica @play-premiosdamusicaportug8715
what a honor, queen!
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On the occasion of José Saramago's centenary, we decided to pay the only Portuguese writer ever to win the Literature Nobel Prize (1998) a little homage and share the time we played LIVE on front of him at a cultural TV show. To our (best knowledge) this was the only time we play to a Nobel laureate.
We apologise for the poor video quality but it holds historical value as one of the highlights of The Antidote era, a record by Moonspell and a book by José Luis Peixoto, who would become the leading Portuguese contemporary writer.
The Antidote album will be reissued in 2023 to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
And all the thirsty can now approach...
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Hugo Ribeiro Moonspell's drummer kicking ass on Aveiro's Rock Shop, interview in Portuguese
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Alô Brasil!
@ResenhandoRock fez uma maravilhosa e completa análise do nosso novo disco Hermitage- Pode conferir no link. Muito obrigar Brasil! Saúde e sorte!!!
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