Memorial (Moonspell album)

2006 studio album by Moonspell

Memorial

Studio album by

Moonspell

Released| 24 April 2006
Recorded| November 2005
Genre|

* Gothic metal
* melodic death metal
* melodic black metal

Length| 52:02, 59:29 (with hidden track)
Label| SPV/Steamhammer
Producer| Waldemar Sorychta
Moonspell chronology
| The Antidote
(2003)  | Memorial
(2006)  | The Great Silver Eye
(2007)

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Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [1]

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.

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

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### CD

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No.| Title| Length

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1.| "In Memoriam" (instrumental)| 1:25
2.| "Finisterra"| 4:08
3.| "Memento Mori"| 4:27
4.| "Sons of Earth" (instrumental)| 1:51
5.| "Blood Tells"| 4:08
6.| "Upon the Blood of Men"| 4:55
7.| "At the Image of Pain"| 4:21
8.| "Sanguine"| 5:50
9.| "Proliferation" (instrumental)| 2:39
10.| "Once It Was Ours!"| 4:53
11.| "Mare Nostrum" (instrumental)| 1:56
12.| "Luna"| 4:42
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

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No.| Title| Length

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1.| "In Memoriam" (instrumental)| 1:25
2.| "Finisterra"| 4:08
3.| "Memento Mori"| 4:27
4.| "Sons of Earth" (instrumental)| 1:51
5.| "Blood Tells"| 4:08
6.| "Upon the Blood of Men"| 4:55
7.| "At the Image of Pain"| 4:21
8.| "Sanguine"| 5:50
9.| "Proliferation" (instrumental)| 2:39
10.| "Once It Was Ours!"| 4:53
11.| "Mare Nostrum" (instrumental)| 1:56
12.| "Luna"| 4:42
13.| "Best Forgotten"| 6:47
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

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No.| Title| Length

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1.| "In Memoriam" (instrumental)| 1:25
2.| "Finisterra"| 4:08
3.| "Memento Mori"| 4:27
4.| "Sons of Earth" (instrumental)| 1:51
5.| "Blood Tells"| 4:08
6.| "Upon the Blood of Men"| 4:55
7.| "At the Image of Pain"| 4:21
8.| "Sanguine"| 5:50
9.| "Proliferation" (instrumental)| 2:39
10.| "Once It Was Ours!"| 4:53
11.| "Mare Nostrum" (instrumental)| 1:56
12.| "Luna"| 4:42
13.| "Best Forgotten"| 6:47
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

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Side ANo.| Title| Length

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1.| "In Memoriam"| 1:25
2.| "Finisterra"| 4:08
3.| "Memento Mori"| 4:27
Total length:| 10:00

Side BNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Sons of Earth"| 1:51
2.| "Blood Tells"| 4:08
3.| "Upon the Blood of Men"| 4:55
4.| "At the Image of Pain"| 4:21
Total length:| 15:15

Side CNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Sanguine"| 5:50
2.| "Proliferation"| 2:39
3.| "Once It Was Ours!"| 4:53
Total length:| 13:22

Side DNo.| Title| Length

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1.| "Mare Nostrum"| 1:56
2.| "Luna"| 4:42
3.| "Best Forgotten"| 6:47
4.| "Atlantic (bonus track)"| 12:43
Total length:| 26:07

## Personnel

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* Fernando Ribeiro – vocals
* Ricardo Amorim – guitars, keyboards
* Pedro Paixão – keyboards, samples, guitars
* Miguel Gaspar – drums

### Additional musicians

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* Waldemar Sorychta – bass
* Raimund Gitsels – violin
* Birgit Zacher – female vocals on "Luna" and "Sanguine"
* Big Boss – vocals on "At the Image of Pain"

### Production

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* Wojtek Blasiak – artwork, layout
* Adriano Esteves – cover art, layout
* Dennis Koehne – engineering assistant
* Siggi Bemm – engineering assistant
* Waldemar Sorychta – producer, mixing, engineering
* Paulo Moreira – photography

## Charts

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Chart (2006)  | Peak
position

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

## References

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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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Moonspell

* Fernando Ribeiro
* Pedro Paixão
* Ricardo Amorim
* Aires Pereira
* Hugo Ribeiro

* Miguel Gaspar
* João Pedro Escoval
* Duarte Picoto
* Luís Lamelas
* João Pereira
* Sérgio Crestana

Albums|

* Wolfheart
* Irreligious
* Sin/Pecado
* The Butterfly Effect
* Darkness and Hope
* The Antidote
* Memorial
* Night Eternal
* Alpha Noir/Omega White
* Extinct
* 1755
* Hermitage

Compilations|

* The Great Silver Eye
* Under Satanæ

EPs|

* Under the Moonspell

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz release group

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