Photo by: Sonja Schuringa
Official press release:
Portuguese Gothic Metal pioneers Moonspell have released a music video for the first single and title track of their upcoming studio album Far From God, offering a first glimpse into what promises to be one of the band’s most defining offerings to date. Far From God will be released on July 3via Napalm Records.
Born out of five years of creative searching, doubt, and ultimate rediscovery, the album marks a powerful return for the band. Far from playing it safe, Moonspell deliver a work that feels like a rebirth: Darker, sharper, and emotionally unfiltered. Rather than bending to modern trends, the band doubles down on identity and substance, presenting a bold and beautiful statement of gothic metal in its purest form: Dark, romantic, dramatic, and unapologetically heavy!
The first single, “Far From God”, sets the tone with burning intensity. A hymn to tragic vampiric love, the song revives the mystique and romantic darkness that once defined the genre, while layered keyboards subtly expand the atmosphere without softening its heaviness. Dense guitars, deep resonant vocals, and dramatic dynamic shifts evoke a timeless gothic aesthetic, restoring danger, and elegance to the narrative of the vampire.
Vocalist 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.”
Thematically, Far From God moves through Baudelairian love, existential guilt, and redemption, Christ-like resurrections and the quiet nobility of creatures of the night. Vampires, werewolves, and sacred symbolism are not escapism here, but vehicles for genuine dark emotion: Solemn, romantic, and unfiltered. The album rejects artificial gloss in favor of fantasy grounded in sincerity, rediscovering the heart of gothic metal in its most authentic form. Ribeiro admits:
“To create Far From God, we had to wait for the muse. 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.”
Moonspell’s forthcoming magnum opus — produced with Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Sólstafir, Ghost among many others) — shines like a black diamond, luminous yet shadowed in texture and color, both musically and sonically. It reconnects with the darker spirit of Moonspell’s classic era while sounding powerful and contemporary. Far From God is not nostalgia; it is a statement. A gothic metal hallelujah. Moonspell‘s 21st century Irreligious. It’s not only a powerful reminder that Moonspell remain a defining force in the genre they helped shape, but an album that will truly save Gothic Metal from boredom and predictability!
Pre-Order Far From God HERE!
Far From God track listing:
- “Cross Your Heart”
- “Far From God”
- “Biblical”
- “The Great Wolf in the Sky” feat. Alicia Nuhr
- “Your Promise of Light”
- “For the Love of Mortals”
- “Our Freedom to Fall”
- “Reconquista”
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