Moonspell – Portuguese Gothic Metal
Moonspell is a Black / Gothic Metal band originally from the city of Brandoa, in Portugal, led by Fernando Ribeiro.
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Gothic Metal
Gothic metal (in English: Gothic Metal or Goth Metal) is called a trend and musical genre that began taking inspiration from both Doom Metal (which was born from Heavy Metal) and the gothic rock of the gothic subculture. It usually deals with themes related to love, passion, loneliness, sadness, blood, sensuality, sexuality, innocence and darkness, and is influenced by poetry, vampirism, literature, philosophy and romanticism. This suggests that this music is a trend metal slant from the Gothic movement and vice versa. However, there is no verifiable data to know if this is officially correct, in the same way that there is no verifiable data that affirms otherwise.
This music consists simply of the heaviness of metal (more specifically Doom Metal) with the dark atmospheres of Gothic rock and some of its musical characteristics, together with other atmospheric and musical elements typical of Gothic Metal, that is, original elements created through of the fusion of Gothic Rock and Doom Metal.