One of Moonspell's best albums, if not the best, Irreligious, returns on vinyl for the first time since its original release back in 1996! It will be released on October 7th, 2016 via Century Media Records. In cooperation with the band, the label decided to re-visit the band's quintessential album as original vinyl editions have been hard to find and are very expensive nowadays. This 20th anniversary edition includes various additional treats.

Irreligious comes housed in a wide spine LP sleeve including the 180 gram vinyl with the album mastered for vinyl by Patrick W. Engel (Iced Earth, Tiamat, Grave), the entire album on CD, a 4-page LP-sized booklet with an introduction and commented live and promo photos by Fernando Ribeiro plus all lyrics. Apart from that, a replica of an original 1996 promotional poster was added resulting in the ultimate edition of this masterpiece.

Moonspell comments: "None of us really thought it through. The possibility of being years, twenty years after, celebrating an album and, why the hell not, a decade of great music, fusion, experiment, freedom. Irreligious will always be our highlight, our piece-de-resistance. Not that the other albums were mistakes in any form. Just that we are still sure that with Irreligious we helped shaping a style, a new thing in underground metal, something European, classic and mystical, a beautiful beast, laid to birth after an eternal night of passion and doom between metal and goth. We will be playing some twenty years shows on selected dates in Europe and Portugal. Come visit the wolves! And...finally thanks to the good chaps of CM we will be releasing the 'Opium' maxi for the first time ever on vinyl (out November 25th)! So plenty of reasons to be celebrating with us, because when you celebrate music you celebrate life, a value which was never so fragile but also so precious as today in a world that has never learnt how to get rid of religion. So, consequently embrace better values, avoid terror and choose beauty over it."

Irreligious will be released in the following vinyl colours and limitations:

black - not limited, available worldwide

transparent red - 100 units, exclusive to Century Media's European webstore

transparent orange - 500 units, Moonspell exclusive, available via www.moonspell.rastilho.com

transparent green - 200 units, exclusive to EMP

gold - 200 units, exclusive to Century Media's US webstore

European presale starts on September 9th, 2016 and the U.S. presale starts on August 26th, 2016.

Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Moonspell