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    MOONSPELL

    Dec 10, 2020 1 minute

    PAX JULIA TEATRO MUNICIPAL, BEJA

    pening with killer cuts from 1995’s debut is savvy. Moonspell’s two-hour (and week-late) ‘Halloween’ livestream takes Fernando Ribeiro declares that we’re going to “travel in time to a time when there was no fucking COVID, when people were free and happy, and we could be together. The year was 1996...” It does almost feel that long at this point. Cherry-picking harder, pacier songs from latter-day releases – raging 2008 title hit muscular 2015 opener anthemic 2017 stomp – Moonspell focus on heads-down directness and visceral engagement, as bassist Aires Pereira’s windmillheadbanging attests. Quieter moments are more valuable for their scarcity, and while final encore is perhaps a slight anti-climax after the first encore, languid epic , in both songs (and throughout) Ricardo Amorim astounds with his prodigious, fluid, emotionally charged guitar soloing.

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