MOONSPELL To Embark On Acoustic Tour

October 23, 2010

Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL will embark on the "Sombra" (English translation: Shadow) tour of Portugal in October-December. The band will perform acoustic and semi-acoustic versions of its best-known songs while backed by the Crystal Mountain Singers female choir and the Opus Diabolicum quintet composed of four cellists and a percussionist.

The dates are as follows:

Oct. 30 - Lisbon - Cinema São Jorge
Oct. 31 - Lisbon - Cinema São Jorge
Nov. 13 - Arcos De Valdevez - Casa Das Artes
Nov. 19 - Guimarães - Cae S. Mamede
Nov. 23 - Porto - Casa Da Música
Nov. 30 - Alcochete - Forum Cultural
Dec. 02 - Leiria - Teatro José Lúcio Silva
Dec. 03 - Ilhavo - Centro Cultural
Dec. 04 - Caldas Da Rainha - CCC
Dec. 07 - Guarda - Teatro Municipal
Dec. 09 - Portalegre - Caep

Video footage of MONSPELL performing acoustically on September 15, 2010 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Lisbon, Portugal can be viewed below.

MOONSPELL is working on material for a new studio album, which it expects to release sometime in 2011. According to vocalist Fernando Ribeiro, the new songs are "the most exciting, sexiest, darkest, heaviest and catchiest stuff we've written in ages!"

MOONSPELL released a DVD, "Lusitanian Metal", in December 2008 in Europe via Century Media Records. The first disc features one complete live show recorded live in Katowice in 2004, all video clips (from "Opium" to "Everything Invaded"),an in-depth interview with all current band members and a detailed discography. The second disc offers a historical overview of the Portuguese metal group's period as a Century Media recording artist, with no less than 50 live tracks, starting with some very old-school live rehearsal recordings back in 1992 and ending with live footage from the "Spreading The Eclipse Tour".

The band's latest album, "Night Eternal", entered the national chart in Portugal at No. 3 and in Germany at No. 62. The follow-up to 2006's "Memorial" was recorded at Antfarm studios in Denmark with producer Tue Madsen (THE HAUNTED, DARK TRANQUILLITY, HALFORD).

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