Moonspell – ‘Night Eternal’ CD

‘Night Eternal’ was released in 2008 and continues the trend of Moonspell revisiting their original heavy roots, much like they did on 2006’s ‘Memorial’ and 2003’s ‘The Antidote.’

While ‘Memorial’ was an overall heavy album with slowing down in tempo solely in atmospheric instrumental tracks, ‘Night Eternal’ shuns purely instrumental interludes but rather focuses on creating variation within the individual tracks.

This works brilliantly, and while ‘Memorial’ became predictable at times because of a lack of changes in tempo and heaviness, ‘Night Eternal’ is all the more captivating and beautiful when Moonspell holds back a little yet more crushing than ever before when they go full-throttle.

This resulted in ‘Night Eternal’ being received well overall by international music critics and managing to reach both Portuguese and French album charts.