spielwiese. (Posts about moonspell.)https://spielwiese.fontein.de/tag/moonspell.atom2019-11-17T10:46:53ZfelixNikolaluna by moonspell.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2010/11/23/luna-by-moonspell/2010-11-23T18:00:28+01:002010-11-23T18:00:28+01:00felix<div><p>the third video is <i>luna</i> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonspell">moonspell</a>, a portugese gothic metal band. the song is rather different than all others on the <i>memorial</i> album, but nonetheless i like it very much. a beautifully animated video. it’s a rather depressing and suicidal video though, so be warned. the lyrics can be found <a href="http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/moonspell/memorial.html#12">here</a>.</p>
<p>this is very dark (slow) gothic metal. you can give it a try if you want.</p>
<div class="youtube"><div class="youtube-disclaimer">[[for legal reasons, i do not want to include youtube videos here anymore. please click on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aU65Iz6_g">this link</a> to watch the video at youtube.]]</div></div>
<p><i>i like it because…</i> the first time i saw this song was when i watched the video on <i>moonspell</i>‘s homepage. it’s one of the cases where i really like a music video <i>and</i> the song independently. a beautiful gray world, almost no color, except red. beautifully drawn, moving, growing scenes. and a slow, heavy song. full of melancholy.<br>
(and a note… it’s hard to find metal music videos which i actually like, when it’s not about just showing the band playing the song. and some have very strange content which simply makes no sense, like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY5LRReFYus">this one</a>. but <i>luna</i> is a big exception.)</p></div>best albums so far.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/26/best-albums-so-far/2007-12-26T23:19:08+01:002007-12-26T23:19:08+01:00felix<div><p>after making a <a href="https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/12/25/best-concerts-this-year/">best of concerts</a> list for this year, i decided to make a best of albums list for all albums i have bought until now. i divided this up into several categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>prog;</li>
<li>punk/punk rock;</li>
<li>trip hop, alt rock;</li>
<li>other non-metal;</li>
<li>metal: atmospheric;</li>
<li>metal: death/black;</li>
<li>metal: doom;</li>
<li>metal: extreme prog;</li>
<li>metal: folk/pagan/viking;</li>
<li>metal: gothic;</li>
<li>metal: power;</li>
<li>metal: prog;</li>
<li>metal: other.</li>
</ul>
<p>note that this list reflects a snapshot of my current interest and remembrance of most of the albums. it could already be different in a few days. but feel free to comment or discuss this with me.</p>
<h4>prog.</h4>
<ol>
<li>porcupine tree: deadwing.</li>
<li>pure reason revolution: the dark third.</li>
<li>frost: milliontown.</li>
<li>opeth: damnation.</li>
<li>porcupine tree: the sky moves sideways.</li>
</ol>
<h4>punk/punk rock.</h4>
<ol>
<li>die ärzte: die bestie in menschengestalt.</li>
<li>wizo: uuaarrgh!.</li>
<li>die toten hosen: kauf mich!.</li>
<li>die ärzte: planet punk.</li>
<li>die ärzte: 13.</li>
</ol>
<h4>trip hop, alt rock.</h4>
<ol>
<li>kari rueslåtten: other people’s stories.</li>
<li>radiohead: ok computer.</li>
<li>portishead: portishead.</li>
</ol>
<h4>other non-metal.</h4>
<ol>
<li>kari rueslåtten: spindelsinn.</li>
<li>nine inch nails: the downward spiral.</li>
<li>eläkeläiset: humppasirkus.</li>
<li>bohren & der club of gore: black earth.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: atmospheric.</h4>
<ol>
<li>the 3rd and the mortal: tears laid in earth.</li>
<li>finntroll: visor om slutet.</li>
<li>tool: 10 000 days.</li>
<li>anathema: a natural disaster.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: death/black.</h4>
<p>note that i took out the prog death/prog black (avantgarde) albums into its own category, called <i>metal: extreme prog</i>.</p>
<ol>
<li>bolt thrower: those once loyal.</li>
<li>moonspell: the antidote.</li>
<li>wintersun: wintersun.</li>
<li>amorphis: elipse.</li>
<li>childen of bodom: hatebreeder.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: doom.</h4>
<p>i think this is the category where i could have made the longest list. there are many really good albums missing, for example <i>down</i> and <i>love and death</i> by <i>sentenced</i>, the other <i>swallow the sun</i> albums, <i>sunn o)))</i> and <i>boris</i>‘ <i>altar</i>, some <i>candlemass</i> albums, <i>unholy</i>‘s <i>the second ring of power</i>, and some more.</p>
<ol>
<li>sentenced: frozen</li>
<li>swallow the sun: ghosts of loss.</li>
<li>type o negative: world coming down.</li>
<li>tiamat: prey.</li>
<li>unholy: rapture.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: extreme prog.</h4>
<p>this category is dominated by opeth; therefore, i decided to list the top seven instead of the top five.</p>
<ol>
<li>opeth: still life.</li>
<li>orphaned land: mabool — the story of the three sons of seven.</li>
<li>opeth: blackwater park.</li>
<li>distorted: memorial.</li>
<li>opeth: orchid.</li>
<li>borknagar: epic.</li>
<li>edge of sanity: crimson (part one).</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: folk/pagan/viking.</h4>
<ol>
<li>moonsorrow: viides luku: hävitetty.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: verisäkeet.</li>
<li>primordial: to the nameless dead.</li>
<li>finntroll: jaktens tid.</li>
<li>moonsorrow: voimasta ja kunniasta.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: gothic.</h4>
<ol>
<li>lacuna coil: karma code.</li>
<li>tristania: beyond the veil.</li>
<li>lake of tears: a crimson cosmos.</li>
<li>poisonblack: lust stained despair.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: power.</h4>
<ol>
<li>nevermore: dead heart in a dead world.</li>
<li>nevermore: dreaming neon black.</li>
<li>symphony x: paradise lost.</li>
<li>communic: waves of visual decay.</li>
<li>nightwish: oceanborn.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: prog.</h4>
<ol>
<li>dream theater: train of thought.</li>
<li>the gathering: mandylion.</li>
<li>ayreon: the human equation.</li>
<li>dream theater: metropolis pt. 2 — scenes from a memory.</li>
<li>dream theater: images and words.</li>
</ol>
<h4>metal: other.</h4>
<ol>
<li>timo rautiainen & trio niskalaukaus: hartes land.</li>
<li>rage: lingua mortis.</li>
<li>samael: solar soul.</li>
<li>annihilator: king of the kill.</li>
<li>apocalyptica: cult.</li>
</ol></div>concerts i have been at.https://spielwiese.fontein.de/2007/08/13/concerts-i-have-been-at/2007-08-13T23:13:35+02:002007-08-13T23:13:35+02:00felix<div><p>here’s a list of concerts i’ve been at this year, for historical reasons. not taking in account some classic concerts.</p>
<ul>
<li>07.02.2007: <a href="http://www.megatherion.com/">therion</a>, <a href="http://www.grave-digger.de/">grave digger</a> and sabaton were playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (symphonic orchestral metal, and some more thrashy/whatever metal);</li>
<li>21.02.2007: <a href="http://www.amplifiertheband.com/">amplifier</a> and cloudride were playing at <a href="http://www.abart.ch/">abart</a> in zürich (progressive art rock);</li>
<li>24.02.2007: <a href="http://www.blackfield.org/">blackfield</a> and pure reason revolution were playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (progressive rock, art rock);</li>
<li>04.03.2007: <a href="http://www.trailofdead.com/">…and you will know us by the trail of dead</a> and forget cassettes were playing at the <a href="http://www.rotefabrik.ch/">rote fabrik</a> in zürich (alternative rock);</li>
<li>29.03.2007: <a href="http://www.lefay.org/">morgana lefay</a>, sacred steel, serenity and bitterness were playing at <a href="http://www.rock-city.ch/">rock city</a> in uster (various kinds of metal: death, prog, power, true, …);</li>
<li>09.04.2007: <a href="http://www.moonsorrow.com/">moonsorrow</a>, <a href="http://www.swallowthesun.net/">swallow the sun</a> and some band whose name i forgot played at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (pagan metal, doom metal, death metal);</li>
<li>10.04.2007: <a href="http://www.circle2circle.net/">circle ii circle</a>, <a href="http://www.savage-circus.de/">savage circus</a>, tomorrow’s eve and <a href="http://www.tempesta.ch/">tempesta</a> were playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (metal);</li>
<li>13.04.2007: <a href="http://www.moonspell.com/">moonspell</a>, napalm death, behemoth, gojira and dew scented were playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (death and black metal, metalcore);</li>
<li>16.05.2007: <a href="http://www.spocksbeard.com/">spock’s beard</a> was playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (progressive rock);</li>
<li>27.05.2007: trivium, <a href="http://www.annihilatormetal.com/">annihilator</a> and some band which was playing before the official opening time were playing at the <a href="http://www.rohstofflager.ch/">rohstofflager</a> in zürich (thrash metal);</li>
<li>29.05.2007: <a href="http://www.verglas.com/arenaworld/">arena</a> was playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (progressive rock);</li>
<li>31.05.2007: <a href="http://www.anathema.ws/">anathema</a> and moondawn were playing at the <a href="http://www.z-7.ch/">z-7</a> in pratteln (atmospheric rock with metal influences);</li>
<li>01.06.2007: machine head, <a href="http://www.typeonegative.net/">type o negative</a>, cataract and zatokrev were playing at the <a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a> in zürich (thrash metal, doom metal, metalcore and death metal);</li>
<li>27.06.2007: <a href="http://www.dreamtheater.net/">dream theater</a> and <a href="http://www.megadeth.com/">megadeth</a> were playing at the <a href="http://www.volkshaus.ch/">volkshaus</a> in zürich (progressive metal, thrash metal).</li>
</ul>
<p>if i’ll find the motivation (and if anyone cares), i might write a few words about some of these.</p></div>