Memorial (Moonspell album)

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Memorial
Memorial cover.jpg
Studio album by
Moonspell
Released24 April 2006
RecordedNovember 2005
Genre Gothic metal, melodic death metal, melodic black metal, doom metal
Length52:02, 59:29 (with hidden track)
Label SPV/Steamhammer
Producer Waldemar Sorychta
Moonspell chronology
The Antidote
(2003)		Memorial
(2006)		 The Great Silver Eye
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Memorial is the seventh studio album by Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, released on 24 April 2006 by SPV/Steamhammer. The album is available in three versions: a standard edition, a Portugal exclusive with the "Phantom North" bonus track, and a limited digipak edition with the "Atlantic" bonus track.

Contents

On 16 January 2007, Memorial was certified gold by the Associação Fonográfica Portuguesa for selling over 10,000 copies in Portugal. This is the first time a Portuguese heavy metal group has received this award. [2]

Each of the limited versions and the standard edition end with a different song, but on every version the final track ends with a six-minute wolves-howling outro ("The Sleep of the Sea"), hence there are actually two official versions of "Best Forgotten".

Track listing

CD

No.TitleLength
1."In Memoriam" (instrumental)01:25
2."Finisterra"04:08
3."Memento Mori"04:27
4."Sons of Earth" (instrumental)01:51
5."Blood Tells"04:08
6."Upon the Blood of Men"04:55
7."At the Image of Pain"04:21
8."Sanguine"05:50
9."Proliferation" (instrumental)02:39
10."Once It Was Ours!"04:53
11."Mare Nostrum" (instrumental)01:56
12."Luna"04:42
13."Best Forgotten" (includes 1:27 of silence and a 6-minute hidden track, "The Sleep of the Sea")14:14
Total length:59:29

Special and digipak edition

No.TitleLength
1."In Memoriam" (instrumental)01:25
2."Finisterra"04:08
3."Memento Mori"04:27
4."Sons of Earth" (instrumental)01:51
5."Blood Tells"04:08
6."Upon the Blood of Men"04:55
7."At the Image of Pain"04:21
8."Sanguine"05:50
9."Proliferation" (instrumental)02:39
10."Once It Was Ours!"04:53
11."Mare Nostrum" (instrumental)01:56
12."Luna"04:42
13."Best Forgotten"06:47
14."Atlantic" (bonus track; includes 1:27 of silence and a 6-minute hidden track, "The Sleep of the Sea")12:43
Total length:64:45

Portuguese edition

No.TitleLength
1."In Memoriam" (instrumental)01:25
2."Finisterra"04:08
3."Memento Mori"04:27
4."Sons of Earth" (instrumental)01:51
5."Blood Tells"04:08
6."Upon the Blood of Men"04:55
7."At the Image of Pain"04:21
8."Sanguine"05:50
9."Proliferation" (instrumental)02:39
10."Once It Was Ours!"04:53
11."Mare Nostrum" (instrumental)01:56
12."Luna"04:42
13."Best Forgotten"06:47
14."Phantom North" (bonus track; includes 1:27 of silence and a 6-minute hidden track, "The Sleep of the Sea")11:49
Total length:65:00

DVD (Special Edition)Live at CC Estudio 2

  1. "Memento Mori"
  2. "Blood Tells"
  3. "Sanguine"
  4. "Best Forgotten"

Live at Vilar de Mouros

  1. "In Memoriam"
  2. "Finisterra"
  3. "Memento Mori"
  4. "Blood Tells"
  5. "Proliferation"
  6. "Upon the Blood of Men"

Videos

  1. "Luna"
  2. "Finisterra"
  3. "Making of Finisterra"

Vinyl edition

Side A
No.TitleLength
1."In Memoriam"01:25
2."Finisterra"04:08
3."Memento Mori"04:27
Total length:10:00
Side B
No.TitleLength
1."Sons of Earth"01:51
2."Blood Tells"04:08
3."Upon the Blood of Men"04:55
4."At the Image of Pain"04:21
Total length:15:15
Side C
No.TitleLength
1."Sanguine"05:50
2."Proliferation"02:39
3."Once It Was Ours!"04:53
Total length:13:22
Side D
No.TitleLength
1."Mare Nostrum"01:56
2."Luna"04:42
3."Best Forgotten"06:47
4."Atlantic (bonus track)"12:43
Total length:26:07

Personnel

Additional musicians

Production

Charts

Charts (2006)Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders) [3] 95
French Albums (SNEP) [4] 181
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100) [5] 68
Portuguese Albums (AFP) [6] 1

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References

  1. ↑ AllMusic review
  2. ↑ "Moonspell: Memorial certified gold in Portugal". Blabbermouth.net. 16 January 2007. Archived from the original on 21 January 2007. Retrieved 17 January 2007.
  3. ↑ "Ultratop.be – Moonspell – Memorial" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  4. ↑ "Lescharts.com – Moonspell – Memorial". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  5. ↑ "Offiziellecharts.de – Moonspell – Memorial" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  6. ↑ "Portuguesecharts.com – Moonspell – Memorial". Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
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