Anyway as we realised it would be difficult and dull to have two bands with the same guys on different functions, we decide to concentrate on Morbid God as something more serious and left behind prolific names and ideas that bring a red colour to our faces when we mention them occasionally. The closest thing to a band we had besides Morbid God was a project called ARCHANGEL (which I still think is a very good name for a band, so if you are looking for one…) where I was supposed to play drums and Ares was supposed to sing. This was already a culmination of a long process of talking about doing a band, drawing logos, writing lyrics, designing and conceiving layouts and above all dreaming about the privilege of doing music. But let us cut this talk before gets as boring as it got paternal so … The band real beginning was back in mid-1989 when myself, Ares and two other guys ,whose names are irrelevant for our history, formed a band called MORBID GOD. So I hope you get informed about the band since this all virtual hype is information anyway but let me warn you I am not capable of doing a formal biography. But I offered my services to our Internet page so, after the biography of my biographies, I should just put into life Moonspell’s current biography that I really do not know how it will turn out. So I ended up with dozens of different biographies each for its use but I was only being bureaucratic about it so I dropped the case and let Century Media do the dirty doings. I have even done a middle term one between information and delirium to magazines and fanzines that could use both sides of Moonspell biographies. Naturally these “novels” were totally useless for labels and promoters and I had to step to more formal biographies. So I started off with very “eloquent”, “poetic” biographies, totally non informative but that value for the over the top language and epicism of a really simple story.

Throughout all the years of Moonspell existence I’ve been responsible by issuing and composing up to date Moonspell biographies maybe because I was the most familiar with writing or because I have been in ALL the moments of Moonspell story, whatever… and throughout the years I’ve done several biographies according to the ideological and musical oscillations and evolution’s we have experienced as a band and as individuals.

In the early days of the band they had stronger black metal influences since most of the members came from that scene but they have later adopted more of a mellow gothic rock sound, a little similar to Lacuna Coil and the likes. Langsuyar means vampire and was adopted from the babylonian tradition where it represented a creature that attacked during the night. He wrote all the band’s lyrics and also created a new original sound by mixing elements of black metal, gothic music and classic heavy metal. The frontman of the band was already from the beginning Langsuyar, or Fernando Ribeiro as his real name is. Moonspell was formed in Brandoa, Portugal, in the middle of 1989 under the name Morbid God.

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