MOONSPELL – U.S. Tour

The Portuguese-based gothic metal pioneers MOONSPELL will embark on a national U.S. tour alongside fellow genre leaders Cradle of Filth and Type O Negative this fall. The trek, set to begin on November 13th and run through the end of December, will also include a stop at the New Jersey Metal and Hardcore Festival. This tour announcement comes on the eve of the group's seventh album, The Antidote, set for an October 21st release. After enlisting the talents of Waldemar Sorychta (Lacuna Coil, Sentenced), who worked with the band on their acclaimed releases Wolfheart, Irreligious and Sin/Pecado, to handle the album's pre-production, the band emerged with 10 epic tracks that encompass many aspects of horror, melody and heaviness. The addition of Niclas Etelävuori (Amorphis) on bass further allowed them to conquer new ground, while retaining the sound they developed almost a decade ago.

Fernando Ribeiro (vocals) further describes the band's excitement over their much-anticipated return to the U.S. after a two-year absence: “If someone told the pessimist in me that we would go on this wonderful tour together with Cradle of Filth and Type O Negative, I would laugh sardonically at him and especially at myself. But now that everything is being put together, I just feel like tapping that lost energy into impressing every single one for what we are, which is what is contained in our music, purely and solely. The first sold-out show we ever played in our lives was supporting COF in a distant 1994 here in Lisbon, and we all agree that the best and most successful tour we ever had was supporting Type O around Europe, back in 1996, the year of all radiances for us. So nothing can fail, and we are working hard to come back in style, with our new album and our old classics, to underline a spark we like to think we left in our dear U.S. audience, which is like we are now: small but powerful. So we would love to meet you all, to have you tasting the antidote and to have you all basking at the moonlight, this agitated moonlight, whose spirits we want to cast upon you, by our words, by our sounds and by our furious love for communicating our (he)Art unto those who can better understand it: you. We do hope to see you all there.”

MOONSPELL w/Cradle of Filth and Type O Negative

11/13 Saratoga Winners – Albany, NY (No Type O Negative)
11/14 Palladium – Worsester, MA
11/15 Convention Center – Asbury Park, NJ
11/16 Newport Music Hall – Columbus, OH
11/18 Orbit Room – Grand Rapids, MI
11/20 The Rave – Milwaukee, WI
11/21 Agora – Cleveland, OH
11/22 Riviera Theater – Chicago, IL
11/24 Quest – Minneapolis, MN
11/25 Pop's – St Louis, MO
11/26 Bricktown Express – Oklahoma City, OK
11/28 Ridglea Theater – Ft Worth, TX
11/29 Sunset Station – San Antonio, TX
12/01 Marquee Theater – Phoenix, AZ
12/2 Palladium 3000 – Los Angeles, CA
12/3 The Joint – Las Vegas, NV OR Soma – San Diego, CA
12/5 Warfield – San Francisco, CA
12/6 Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR
12/7 Showbox – Seattle, WA
12/9 City Auditorium – Colorado Springs, CO
12/11 7 Flags – Des Moines, IA
12/12 State Theater – Detroit, MI
12/13 Metropol – Pittsburgh, PA
12/15 930 Club – Washington D.C.
12/16 Electric Factory – Philadelphia, PA
12/17 Webster Theater – Hartford, CT (No Type O Negative)
12/18 Medley – Montreal, ONT ( No Type O Negative)