Wolfheart [Extra tracks]

Wolfheart [Extra tracks]

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
Between black metal and gothic/operatic influences. A diverse musical experience that gets more intricate with each successive listen. Eight tracks. Century Media. 1995.

Tracks:

Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)
Love Crimes
...Of Dream and Drama (Midnight Ride)
Lua D'Inverno
Trebaruna
Vampiria
An Erotic Alchemy
Alma Mater

Album Description

Between black metal and gothic/operatic influences. A diverse musical experience that gets more intricate with each successive listen. Eight tracks. Century Media. 1995.

Album Details

Re-issue of the debut release by this Portuguese metal band.

Customer Reviews:

One of Moonspell's Best.......2007-01-08

"Wolfheart" was my fist album by the band and it's still my favorite. This album contains a lot of atmosphere and emotion even with the growling vocals that are sprinkled throughout the album. I'm not normally a fan of those but if they are in moderation it's alright. The solo in "...Of Dream and Drama", after the piano, comes out of nowhere and smacks you in the face. I love it. The opener, "Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)" is an emotional track topping off at 7:43 with an amazing solo at the end aswell. My favorite tracks from the record are "Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)", "...Of Dream and Drama (Midnight Ride)", and "An Erotic Alchemy".

1. Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade) - 10/10
2. Love Crimes - 10/10
3. ...Of Dream and Drama (Midnight Ride) - 10/10
4. Lua D'Inverno - 10/10
5. Trebaruna - 9.5/10
6. Vampiria - 10/10
7. An Erotic Alchemy - 10/10
8. Alma Mater - 8.5/10

Overall: 98% A

Katatonia was the first band to turn me on to the whole Doom metal scene. Katatonia then turned me on to Moonspell thanks to Internet Radio and this album was the first thing I picked up and I love it. From then on I've heard more and more by Moonspell and love some of their other albums as well. Although in my opinion this is the best. Anyone a fan of Gothic or Doom metal should check this one out.

The definitive Goth album.......2006-05-05

Moonspell's early releases, the demo "Anno Satana", and the mini-album "Under The Moonspell" were essentially black metal releases that had gone down very well with fans of the genre.

However, for this debut album, "WolfHeart", Moonspell adopted a more distinct and innovative Gothic style. It remains till date, the best Moonspell album, with its success stemming largely from the amazing vocals of Langsuyar, i.e. Fernando Ribiero and the highly original folk-inspired music.

Mostly guitar-based, the music has excellent keyboards accompanying it, which make for some real eerie atmospheric sounds. Birgit Zacher provides the female vocals on tracks like "Love Crimes". This offers a total contrast to Fernando's powerful vocals. All the songs have a certain exotic appeal to them, which makes you want to play the album over and again. The lyrics deal with legends and lore of the night, werewolves, witches, love and lust, and the eternally enchanted.

The album opens with "WolfShade (A Werewolf Masquerade)", and it immediately sets the tone for the rest of the album to follow. The intro manages to lull you before the vocals rip into the song. Though the guitar tone sounds very raw, the keyboards are very well rendered, and the latter half of the song has some excellent musical composition, with Fernando's vocals alternating between some clean singing and growling.

The two songs that follow, "Love Crimes" and "Of Dreams And Drama" work as one. Following the same theme, the songs are some of the most underrated of all of MoonSpell's works. Blending some hypnotizing melodic rhythms with heavier riffs and some mesmerizing displays of well placed keyboard interludes, they showcase the amazing song-writing skills of Fernando Ribiero, which focus on not a particular instrument, but rather on the entire feel and structure of the song. Some more of this is present in the instrumental that follows it, "Lua D'Inverno". It features the interesting combination of the flute and the guitar, and even though it is pretty short, it works really well as an interlude.

"Trebraruna", a song about the goddess of Love and War, is sung in Portuguese. In the words of Fernando, "The evident contrast between war and love and the feminity involved in the cult of this deity inspired us on the building of a somewhat praise song". The goddess would have been flattered by the intention, but not too pleased with the outcome. The song ends up sounding too whimsical and listless. Possibly the only song the album could have done without.

Another concert favourite is "Vampira". It starts off sounding a bit corny, with Fernando droning on about his "only love and true destiny", but it soon changes gears with some real bone-crunching riffs and deep, powerful vocals. The venomous scream at the end is bound to send a real chill up anyone's spine. The album is finally wrapped up with "An Erotic Alchemy", and the amazing "Alma Mater", one of the biggest fan-favourites.

This was the album that introduced me to Goth genre, and pretty much got me hooked. It is a pity that Moonspell never came up with anything later to match the intensity of this one, but then again, I guess that is what makes Wolfheart stand out.

A definite must-buy.

ONLY BUY THIS BY MOONSPELL!!!!.......2005-10-30

One of those classic DOOM METAL album's!!!!!!!

Very erie..dont know how they do it..but they do!!!

This is the kinda thing that so many band's have ripped off but always fail to ever amke it like this!!

This has to be heard by MDB fan's,KATATONIA fan's...and ony the older album's fan's of course!! it is hard to say this sound's like any one though..because it doesent..I just gotta compre it too early MDB for that DEPRESSING atmopshere!!

ONE OF THE BEST DOOM ALBUM's EVER!!!!!!!!!! BUY OR DIE!!!!!!

A lot of talent and a lot of emotion..........2004-03-06

This is a superb release that mixes dark Gothic Metal with a bit of death metal. It is better than most CDs in this genre. This is the debut album from this Portugese band. It is for people who like Paradise Lost, Tristania or any heavy Gothic Metal band. It truly has a spine-chilling amount of emotion and rage. Moonspell have done better in their first album than many bands could ever hope to do in their career. This is now one of my favorite CDs. You will not be disappointed by this album. If there was ever any question that Gothic Metal is turning "weak," one only needs to look to this stalwart. Granted, this is the best of their CDs, but their new CDs aren't mediocre by any measure either.

Oh..My...God!.......2004-01-17

This is one of the best albums I have heard in my life. Fernando has the voice of an angel! There aren't words to describe this! Dark, powerfull, beautiful... This is pure ear-candy! Even the subject matter for some of the songs, which I would normally find extremely cheesy, this is still an incredible cd.

- Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade) - 5 stars -
A song about werewolves. Fantastic vocals..Angry and passionate
- Love Crimes - 4 stars...compared to the others, nothing is standing out.
- ...Of Dream and Drama (Midnight Ride)- 5 stars - I like the piano solo, and the vocals are incredible.
- Lua D'Inverno - 3 stars - No vocals, very peaceful and slow.
- Trebaruna - 3 stars - Viva! In Fernando's native tonguw (I assume)
- Vampiria - 5 stars - Ahh. Vampira! About (can we guess?) Vampires. Slow spoken and sinister. Yummy.
- An Erotic Alchemy - 10 stars - This is the most beautiful song I've ever heard. The cd is worth it for this song alone.
- Alma Mater - 5 stars - This is an angry heartfelt song about Fernandos "mother tongue".

If you like black metal at all this is a must have!

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