page_title: Moonspell
section_title: Alpha Noir and Omega White, Extinct, and 1755 (2010 onwards)
hierarchical_section_title: Moonspell / History / Alpha Noir and Omega White, Extinct, and 1755 (2010 onwards)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Portuguese metal band Moonspell at Kavarna Rock Fest 2011, Bulgaria. Български: Португалската метъл група Мунспел на Каварна Рок Фест 2011.
context_page_description: Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band. Formed in 1992, the group released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994 and followed up with their debut album Wolfheart a year later. They quickly became the most recognizable metal band from Portugal and a key figure in gothic metal.
  Moonspell reached the Portuguese top first with their album Sin/Pecado, and were, along with Metallica and Iron Maiden, the only metal band to reach the first place of the Portuguese charts after the release of their album, Memorial, in 2006. With Memorial, Moonspell also became the first Portuguese metal band to have a record certified gold status. They are also popular in Germany, where their albums consistently enter the Top 100 Chart.
context_section_description: In July 2010, vocalist Fernando Ribeiro revealed the band was working on a new album, which he described as "the most exciting, sexiest, darkest, heaviest and catchiest stuff we've written in ages!". In December 2011 Moonspell signed with Napalm Records, and Ribeiro released the following statement:
  "Signing with Napalm is a firm step into cutting all bullshit and work with people who truly believe in us and respect our longevity, while helping us to embrace those who have been arriving in the last years to start with us yet another kingdom of darkness under the moon. Our new album is a statement. Our blood is the ink. Your skin, the scrolls upon we will write. Napalm Records, our messenger. Be ready."
   Around the same time, Aires Pereira was admitted as a full member of the band, after playing live with them for eight years.
  In January 2012, Moonspell revealed the title of the new album to be Alpha Noir, with a release date of April 27, 2012 and a special edition set to include the album's "musical twin", Omega White. The band's press release cited Bathory, King Diamond, Onslaught, early Metallica, Testament, and Artillery as influences for Alpha Noir, which was described as "an incendiary album". Omega White was instead described as an album of "pure atmosphere and shadow", an homage to Type O Negative and The Sisters of Mercy and similar to Moonspell's second album Irreligious. Alpha Noir and Omega White were both produced and mixed by Tue Madsen, who had previously worked on the band's Under Satanæ and Night Eternal records.
  In 2015, Moonspell released a new album titled "Extinct". This album continued Moonspell's trend into darker and more gothic music.
  On November 3, 2017, they released a concept album named "1755". It detailed the story of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, and was sung entirely in Portuguese, apart from some choirs in Latin.
  On July 3, 2020, Moonspell announced that Mike Gaspar had left the band, and that he would be replaced by Hugo Ribeiro.
caption: Moonspell at Kavarna Rock Fest 2011.
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