Portuguese gothic metal act Moonspell might not be releasing their next album anytime soon. According to the band’s frontman Fernando Ribeiro, it could be as late as 2025 or maybe 2026. The follow-up to their most recent record Hermitage (2021) will take as much as the band needs, to make the final product worth listening to.
Ribeiro shares his thoughts:
“We love to do new music, but we have to wait because I don’t think we’re gonna have a new album before 2025 or ’26, even. It’s something that we are really talking within the band. I wrote a lot of lyrics; I had a lot of ideas. I threw them out; I picked them up, so it’s this kind of process. And why? Because it has to be a really fucking special album. It cannot be (done on) an automatic pilot. That’s not what you should do in the scene.
“In the scene you should go along the flow, like, ‘Let’s make a new album. Let’s get a new tour,’ and people will follow along. But I think this time around, we’re gonna take our time. I think we bought our time, and it was very pricey. So, this time around, I think new music for Moonspell only late 2025 or 2026.”
Ribeiro also talks about how the new music of theirs might not be as crucial to the listeners as it is for the band themselves:
“When it comes to new music, first I have to answer myself the question, do people care about new music, or it’s just the band that care? I don’t have an answer that allows me to make up my mind because now Moonspell is at this stage. We did a lot of music; we did a lot of different music, and we could live from our legacy from for the next years.
“We can do a ‘Wolfheart’ tour in 2025;’ we can do an ‘Irreligious’ tour in 2026, and so forth; we could do a Sin/Pecado tour in 2028.”
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