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MOONSPELL “Far from God”
MOONSPELL “Far from God”
By Octopi Mills
The album opens with "Cross Your Heart" which immediately calls to spirit the goth music of old, and sets the mood for the direction of the album. "Far from God" follows with a sort of same direction, and now the course is on the way. The recording keeps much of the same values in the feel of the album as a whole, and this is good mostly, and why it is done. "Biblical" has a bucking bass and drum gallop in a darkly slow way. The songs are moody, swerving through simmering mids and lows with the highs capped off like an old mortar and limestone top over an old cistern.
"The Great Wolf in the Sky" bucks around and adds some atmosphere and a depth of its own to the tracks. I have seen this Portuguese band live back in the day and know a bit of their legacy and I can see the appeal to them throughout the years. This album sounds nearly like a pure goth album, I can see how they might pull from it for the live shows to sit alongside with some of the more metal numbers in the set. There are a lot of moments of the same here, and as an album often needs several listens, I do not know how it will be received by MOONSPELL fans more loyal than the average fellow. Towards the end it seems to get heavier and more hollering comes, perhaps lending a strange break away from the earlier songs here. I cannot find bad words to say outright against MOONSPELL, however, and will leave on this note.
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