MoonSpell – Rock Era Magazine https://rockeramagazine.com The Risa of a New Era! Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:21:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 A Preview of Metal Albums Set to Release in 2025! https://rockeramagazine.com/2025-metal/ Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:42:14 +0000 https://www.rockeramagazine.com/?p=43482 In just a few days, we will welcome 2025. Many artists and bands have already revealed their upcoming album releases. Fans are particularly excited about the exciting developments behind the scenes, such as the return of the legendary drummer Mike Portnoy to Dream Theater after a 15-year break, along with the highly anticipated new album from King Diamond, among many others. Let’s explore and prepare ourselves for the vibrant energy of 2025!

Heavy Metal / Thrash
  • Tremonti – The End Will Show Us How [January 10]
  • Grave Digger – Bone Collector [January 17]
  • Tokyo Blade – Time Is the Fire [January 17]
  • Bumblefoot – Bumblefoot …Returns! [January 24]
  • All That Remains – Antifragile [January 31]
  • Marko Hietala – Roses from the Deep [February 7]
  • Dawn of Solace – Affliction Vortex [February 14] 
  • Raven – Can’t Take Away the Fire (EP) [February 14]
  • Hirax – Faster Than Death [February 21]
  • Sacrifice – Volume Six [February 21]
  • Scour – Gold [February 21]
  • Dirkschneider – Balls to the Wall – Reloaded (cover album) [February 28]
  • Destruction – Birth of Malice [March 7]
  • Smith / Kotzen – Black Light / White Noise [March 7]
  • Spiritbox – Tsunami Sea [March 7]
  • Lordi – Limited Deadition [March 21]
  • Bleed from Within – Zenith [April 4]
  • Elvenking – Reader of the Runes – Luna [April 11]
Death Metal / Metalcore
  • Paleface Swiss – Cursed [January 3]
  • Ex Deo – Year of the Four Emperors (EP) [January 10]
  • The Halo Effect – March of the Unheard [January 10]
  • Oni – Genesis (EP) [January 24]
  • Obscura – A Sonication [February 7]
  • Bleeding Through – Nine [February 14]
  • Killswitch Engage – This Consequence [February 21]
  • Architects – The Sky, the Earth & All Between [February 28]
  • Arch Enemy – Blood Dynasty [March 28]
  • Memphis May Fire – Shapeshifter [March 28]
  • Landmvrks – The Darkest Place I’ve Ever Been [April 25]
  • Bury Tomorrow – Will You Haunt Me, with That Same Patience [May 16]
Hardcore / Punk
  • Stick to Your Guns – Keep Planting Flowers [January 10]
Black Metal
  • Dark Fortress – Anthems from Beyond the Grave (live album) [January 17]
  • Harakiri for the Sky – Scorched Earth [January 24]
Doom Metal / Sludge / Stoner
  • Avatarium – Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead [January 24]
  • Pentagram – Lightning in a Bottle [January 31]
  • Mantar – Post Apocalyptic Depression [February 14]
  • Nightstalker – Return from the Point of No Return [March 14]
Power Metal / Symphonic / Gothic
  • Labyrinth – In the Vanishing Echoes of Goodbye [January 24]
  • Majestica – Power Train [February 7]
  • Dynazty – Game of Faces [February 14]
  • Lacuna Coil – Sleepless Empire [February 14]
  • Nachtblut – Todschick [February 21]
  • Avantasia – Here Be Dragons [February 28]
  • Brainstorm – Plague of Rats [February 28]
  • Crematory – Destination [May 2]
  • Primal Fear – Domination [September 5]
Experimental / Progressive
  • Thomas Erak – (AU) [January 31]
  • Dream Theater – Parasomnia [February 7]
  • Jinjer – Duél [February 7]
  • Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis Act III: The Father of Make Believe [March 14]

Albums in development with no set release date:

  • Ace Frehley – Origins Vol. 3 (covers album)
  • Blackbraid – Blackbraid III
  • Blind Illusion – Crushing the Universe
  • Candlemass – Black Star (EP)
  • Drowning Pool – (album/EP)
  • Doro – (live DVD)
  • Imperial Triumphant – Goldstar
  • Jack Starr – Out of the Darkness, Pt. 2
  • King Diamond – Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920
  • L.A. Guns – Leopard Skin
  • Pestilence – Portals
  • Sacred Steel – Ritual Supremacy
  • Savatage – Curtain Call
  • Sepultura – (EP and live album)
  • Vader – Humanihility (EP)
  • Vintersorg – Vattenkrafternas spel
  • Whiplash – Old School American Way

A multitude of bands have announced that they are currently in the production phase and plan to release new music in 2025. Among them are Agent Steel, Amorphis, Anthrax, Armored Saint, Black Label Society, Bullet for My Valentine, Cradle of Filth, Crimson Glory, Dark Angel, Death Angel, Def Leppard, Disturbed, Down, Epica, Europe, Exodus, Fear Factory, Five Finger Death Punch, Halestorm, Helloween, Limp Bizkit, Machine Head, Manowar, Mayhem, Megadeth, Mercyful Fate, Metal Church, Michael Schenker, Moonspell, Mötley Crüe, Nine Inch Nails, Paradise Lost, Possessed, Primus, Running Wild, Samael, Sodom, Soulfly, Spinal Tap, Testament, Three Days Grace, Tony Iommi, W.A.S.P., and many others.

Whisper your musings and reveal the album that stirs your anticipation for…

]]> Album: Extinct by MoonSpell https://rockeramagazine.com/moonspell-extinct/ Fri, 12 Jun 2015 08:06:56 +0000 https://www.rockeramagazine.com/moonspell-extinct/ Moonspell is one of the leading extreme gothic metal bands who are currently active and ongoing. They started playing in 1992 and they’ve been on some major tours and they headlined some great festivals. So yeah, I was pretty excited to give this album a listen because ever since it was released, there has been a lot of fuss regarding it.

The lyrical concept of some tracks in the album, Extinct were beyond magnificent. ‘Breathe’ for example, the concept revolves around how we’ve lost connection with our humanity and what makes us who we are, in our quest to be ourselves and find out more about us. The album in general had some great tunes, the calm clean male gothic vocals and the guitar melodies packed with the tight progressive drum lines gave a really unique sound that you can’t get from anyone else. The good thing is that after all these years, the band is still in quite the shape and they have maintained their same style from past albums.

The strings part in ‘Breathe’ was highly influenced by oriental music, you can’t help but notice it. This made the track a favorite of mine because it stood out from the rest. The guitar melody of ‘Domina’ was so haunting you can hear it in your mind long after the track is ends. The solo is quite marvelous too, definitely one of my favorites and I implore the band to write more tracks like this one. The catchy intro and chorus riff of ‘The Last of Us’ is to be highlighted too, the use of the “delay” in the clean guitar in that one was splendid as well. Definitely one of the best moments of this album. ‘Malignia’ had some strings in it too but they were not oriental, more like complimentary line to the strong pounding guitar riffs combined with the bass and drums. All in all, the orchestrations of the album were simple yet strong.

‘A Dying Breed’ had quite the strange intro, the time in which the orchestrations start playing is really weird and you feel like it’s not in sync with the track. But once the track actually starts, it is an epic magnificent piece of music. Much like a fairytale theme. The clean chorus of ‘The Future Is Dark’ was so beautiful. The atmospheric solo of the track was just as beautiful you can’t miss it. The outro track of the album was the weirdest track of them all. It was all in French, that’s just for starters. The atmosphere of the track was much like a tango piece. Filled with orchestrations, choirs and piano notes mostly. And the vocals are a lot like whispers. The weirdest outro I’ve heard so far to be fair.

The artwork of the album is grotesquely beautiful, it is definitely to be highlighted too.

Once the album ended, I immediately replayed it. It is definitely one of the band’s best albums so far and I’ve quite enjoyed my time listening to it. So if you’re a hardcore fan of Moonspell and extreme gothic metal in general, you need to listen to this album.

Edited by: Ahmed S. Khalil

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