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Moonspell - Tapper, Tallinn, Estonia, 03.11.2015


Event: Moonspell - Road To Extinction Tour 2015 (Part II)
Written by: Ivor
Published: 23.11.2015

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Moonspell - Tapper, Tallinn, Estonia, 03.11.2015 by Ivor (40)


This is a concert I've been waiting for a long time to happen. The last time Moonspell were here was a bit over nine years ago. That's a very, very long while for an active band and three albums have happened in the meantime. For various reasons it's also over six years since I last saw the band, so naturally the interest was piqued.



Maxi Nil - Jaded Star


At first glance, the current tour with Jaded Star and Dagoba is a curious combination that doesn't seem to fit together - Jaded Star are a female fronted melodic metal band, Dagoba are thrash, and Moonspell anywhere between gothic and black. Looks like it's all neither here nor there. However, at a second glance, it probably draws a better crowd like this.

Greek Jaded Star were the only one I didn't know at all but given that I'm somewhat partial to female vocals, I figured it might be something for me. However, try as I might to enjoy their show, I couldn't get into it at all. There wasn't anything particularly wrong with it but nothing seemed enticing about it either. It started, it ended. That's it. Sure, there were bits showing potential, and it might be worthwhile to check out their début album, but then and there it went by as uneventfully as possible.



Shawter - Dagoba


Basing my opinion on the two times I've seen Dagoba at Hellfests a while ago, I expected this to be the most boring part of the evening. While packing a huge amount of energy on stage, the band just isn't for me. However, coming off the two mellow evenings of prog over the weekend, I was probably in for something that really cooks, and the French groovy thrash of Dagoba appeared to hit the spot. It's not that I tremendously liked the stuff but there's technical variety to their music, catchy riffs, pounding rhythms, and passion that pull you along. Pity about the circle pit that just didn't happen.

Over the almost quarter of a century, Moonspell's musical direction has been swinging about like a pendulum between heavier and darker black metal, and more mellow and melodic gothic rock. To each his own; some like it one way, some the other. And for a band that long in the business, Moonspell appear on the top of the game live, partly because of the experience these years carry, but also because they genuinely appear to enjoy it despite all these years.

It's not surprising when bands focus on newer material when on tour. The album sales need to be promoted, after all. What's curious in this case, though, is that the second to last album, Alpha Noir / Omega White, appeared to be out of the picture entirely. That, and there was a heavy focus on Wolfheart and Irreligious, which are slowly emphasizing the longevity of their career. However, it does kind of look like the set list was carefully chosen to support the balanced atmosphere of Extinct, never really going too heavy nor too melodic.



Fernando Ribeiro - Moonspell


Set list:
1. Breathe (Until We Are No More) (Extinct)
2. Extinct (Extinct)
3. Night Eternal (Night Eternal)
4. Opium (Irreligious)
5. Awake! (Irreligious)
6. Domina (Extinct)
7. The Last Of Us (Extinct)
8. Medusalem (Extinct)
9. Nocturna (Darkness And Hope)
10. Scorpion Flower (Night Eternal)
11. Malignia (Extinct)
12. Vampiria (Wolfheart)
13. Ataegina (Wolfheart)
14. Alma Mater (Wolfheart)
Encore:
15. Everything Invaded (The Antidote)
16. The Future Is Dark (Extinct)
17. Full Moon Madness (Irreligious)

I often tend to stack the quality of the gig against the awareness of the time passing by. If it's not good enough, even a forty minute set can drag a lifetime. The problem with this particular Moonspell gig is that it went by too fast. It's one of those cases when I wish I could really see another gig in a row. To give you an analogy: you know how when you're really thirsty on a hot day, the mouth is dry and totally parched, and then you happen to swing down a bottle of good, cold beer. The emotion? That of extreme satisfaction. The taste? Uh... Let me get another beer and I'll try to pay attention more.

That Moonspell are doing good gigs is a fact. That I haven't seen the band in a long while, ruined some of it for me. I can't help but feel like it went by in a fast-forwarding state, images flashing by and not having enough time to absorb and savour it all properly. To me this gig was like the flash of a falling star.



Ricardo Amorim - Moonspell







Written on 23.11.2015 by I shoot people.

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And one day I'm going to start a band. We're going to be playing pun-rock.


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24.11.2015 - 12:41
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Tage Westerlund
9 years is like long time, I like it I don't get if ppl can go and see same band every year and in 4 cities , same set list an so on
I know Jaded Star somehow I found it but that French band would reason hy I would skip .. I hate such bands what needs promotion and don't fits in
How was opium and newest album songs live?
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24.11.2015 - 12:58
BloodTears
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Similar setlist on their show here in Lisbon but we had Mariangela Demurtas singing a couple of songs with them and other guests And a few rarities like "Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)" and "Mephisto" which I really appreciate.

I'm so glad you got to see them though, you wanted it for a while. Shame they didn't play anything from Alpha/Omega which you really liked.
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24.11.2015 - 12:58
BloodTears
ANA-thema
Written by Bad English on 24.11.2015 at 12:41

9 years is like long time, I like it I don't get if ppl can go and see same band every year and in 4 cities , same set list an so on
I know Jaded Star somehow I found it but that French band would reason hy I would skip .. I hate such bands what needs promotion and don't fits in
How was opium and newest album songs live?


New songs sound amazing live. And they always play "Opium" lol
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29

Like you could kiss my ass.


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24.11.2015 - 13:00
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Tage Westerlund
Written by BloodTears on 24.11.2015 at 12:58

Written by Bad English on 24.11.2015 at 12:41

9 years is like long time, I like it I don't get if ppl can go and see same band every year and in 4 cities , same set list an so on
I know Jaded Star somehow I found it but that French band would reason hy I would skip .. I hate such bands what needs promotion and don't fits in
How was opium and newest album songs live?


New songs sound amazing live. And they always play "Opium" lol


I never have seen this band live, probably never will
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24.11.2015 - 13:56
Tiago Rocha
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The reason they aren't playing anything from Alpha/Omega is because the album is bad, a failed attempt on doing something different. And they know it.
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25.11.2015 - 11:01
Ivor
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Written by Tiago Rocha on 24.11.2015 at 13:56

The reason they aren't playing anything from Alpha/Omega is because the album is bad, a failed attempt on doing something different. And they know it.

That's your opinion of it. I like the album, more so than Night Eternal or Memorial.

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25.11.2015 - 22:00
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Written by Ivor on 25.11.2015 at 11:01

Written by Tiago Rocha on 24.11.2015 at 13:56

The reason they aren't playing anything from Alpha/Omega is because the album is bad, a failed attempt on doing something different. And they know it.

That's your opinion of it. I like the album, more so than Night Eternal or Memorial.

I.


I saw them in London with a very similar set and I was a little disappointed I did not get to hear anything from Alpha Noir either (I loved that album).
Too many songs from Extinct on this tour I think. Still a great show regardless!
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27.11.2015 - 17:47
garmling
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I saw them in Romania at Rockstadt Festival back in August...They played a whole "Wolfheart" album, and for encore the first two songs of "Irreligious" with "Fullmoon Madness" as the closing track....They were the highlight of the whole festival! They literary destroyed the crowd, everyone was cheering and singing, just incredible! Fantastic band in every possible way!

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10.08.2016 - 10:22
Susan
Smeghead
Aww, sorry you didn't like Jaded Star. I adore their album (in fact, I'm listening right now), hopefully they get it together for a better live performance one day soon.
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