Metal Reviews

Actually, it is... but that's pushing it a bit, maybe. It may be a "cult" album for the band in that it's album some "get" and some don't but take a quick look at the comments and you'll find out not many agree on such a status (myself included). It's not my favorite Moonspell album (like most, that belongs to Wolfheart, now being very closely followed by Anno Satanae... who needs another Deamonarch album now that we that this? ) but I still listen to it often. Abysmo is one of my favorite Moonspell songs. Even within Moonspell fans, Sin/Pecado is often hotly debated.

I don't know... what kind of bugs me about Night Eternai is the lyrics more than the music, honestly. It's how Fernando's great dark poetry on the likes of Sin/Pecado or The Antidote shifted towards a more satanic approach. Don't get me wrong, I'm Satanist-Chaoist, so it's not the subject matter that bothers me. I don't know how to say... it's just that I feel it's somewhat purposely provocative at times (At Tragic Heights or Night Eternal) and I don't think it suits Moonspell so much. They're also more simplistic. Some are great like Moon in Mercury but some leave me indifferent, like Shadow Sun or Hers in the Twilight. I much prefer the witty, tongue-in-cheek stuff of Sin/Pecado or the more philosophical meanderings of The Butterfly Effect (even though the music kind of sucked). But then, lyrics for me are as important or at times even more important than the music; probably because I'm a writer myself.

Sorry for ranting so much.

Bottom line: All Moonspell albums are great to me in their own different ways, for their own reasons. It's just that when it comes to personal taste, some do better than others for me.