More Hits, less brute - but still typical Moonspell

One of the hallmarks of the Portuguese Dark metal kings Moonspell was always that actually no album sounds like its predecessor. 2012 had the game taken to the extreme and released with Alpha Omega Noir and White two disks as a quasi double album that expressed two different facets of Moonspell'schen sound universe. This caused not everywhere rave (especially the quiet Omega White was included only in the digipack edition). All critics I can reassure: Anno 2015 have again created Fernando Ribeiro and his men a closed musical unity. Extinct is the now tenth album of Southern Europeans and shows them not as catchy as long. And so are meant not only safe insinuating half ballads like Domina, The Future is dark or Malignia (beautiful strings). Above all, there are the Gothic rockers The Last of Us and Funeral Bloom bring the great hit potential. This Sisters of Mercy Meets Metal Feeling the band has in my opinion made the mid-90's only really big and is revived here skillfully. Of course hardness and opulent Symphonic or Classical Parts (combined well in the opener Breathe (Until we are no more), and the following title track, which also includes a video was released). A Dying Breed also suggests the same line and is waiting at the end still with a nice melodic guitar solo. I am particularly pleased that it has taken back home in Moonspell and the oriental influences the beginning of time and it has integrated into the gothic rock grenade Medusalem. As a bouncer acts a nearly three-minute, French-speaking Outro La Baphomette, dominate at the piano and other classical instruments.

The bottom line Extinct therefore provides good 45 minutes typical Moonspell-food, which is typically meant in the sense that one has borrowed a few elements from every creative phase and has combined to form a new whole. And with success. Although there is far less brutal to the point than on Alpha Noir, Night Eternal Memorial or, for that you had to come more focused on the potential hit Gothic-rock track. Can you do so.