Moonspell – ‘The Antidote’ CD

The ‘Antidote’ is a concept album – or rather an album with a series of concepts – of which the lyrical themes were crafted together with one of Portugal’s most promising fiction writers back in 2003: José Luis Peixoto, who simultaneously with Moonspell wrote a short-story novel ‘O Antidoto’ (the Portuguese translation for The Antidote).

It is no wonder then that with his help lyrically, Moonspell has never been as strong as they are on ‘The Antidote;’ every individual song on this album truly has its own brilliantly written story.

Since the album is a coherent piece of art of which one sample would not do justice to the entire product, it is pointless to sample some of ‘The Antidote’s lyrics here, but Moonspell themselves express quite accurately on the opening statement of their CD booklet what kind of mental images are summoned by this album: “The Horror of Beauty, The Beauty of Horror.”