Alpha Noir/Omega White

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Alpha Noir/Omega White
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Studio album by Moonspell
Released April 27, 2012
Recorded 2011
Genre Melodic death metal, symphonic metal (Alpha Noir)
Gothic metal, gothic rock, dark rock (Omega White)
Length 40:34 (Alpha Noir)
38:10 (Omega White)
78:44 (Total)
Label Napalm
Producer Tue Madsen
Moonspell chronology
Night Eternal
(2008)Night Eternal2008
Alpha Noir/Omega White
(2012)
Extinct
(2015)Extinct2015
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com 3.5/5 stars[1]
Blistering 7.5/10 stars[2]
Exclaim! favorable[3]
Metal Forces 8/10 stars[4]
Sputnikmusic 3.5/5[5]

Alpha Noir/Omega White is the ninth full-length album by the Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, released on April 27, 2012. It is the band's first double album. The band's press release cited Bathory, King Diamond, Onslaught, early Metallica, Testament, and Artillery as influences for Alpha Noir, which was described as "an incendiary album". Omega White was instead described as an album of "pure atmosphere and shadow", an homage to Type O Negative and The Sisters of Mercy and similar to Moonspell's second album Irreligious. Alpha Noir and Omega White were both produced and mixed by Tue Madsen, who had previously worked on the band's Under Satanæ and Night Eternal records.[6]

Track listing

Alpha Noir
No. Title Length
1. "Axis Mundi"   4:57
2. "Lickanthrope"   3:49
3. "Versus"   3:39
4. "Alpha Noir"   4:30
5. "Em Nome do Medo" ("In the Name of Fear") 4:27
6. "Opera Carne"   3:53
7. "Love Is Blasphemy"   4:31
8. "Grandstand"   4:54
9. "Sine Missione"   4:57
Total length:
40:34
Omega White
No. Title Length
1. "Whiteomega"   4:21
2. "White Skies"   3:34
3. "Fireseason"   4:29
4. "New Tears Eve"   4:45
5. "Herodisiac"   4:46
6. "Incantatrix"   4:40
7. "Sacrificial"   4:11
8. "A Greater Darkness"   7:24
Total length:
38:10

The song "New Tears Eve" has been dedicated to Peter Steele, the vocalist and leader of Type O Negative, who died in 2010.

Line-up

  • Fernando Ribeiro - vocals
  • Ricardo Amorim - guitars
  • Pedro Paixão - keyboards, guitars
  • Aires Pereira - bass
  • Miguel Gaspar - drums

Notes

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  6. http://legacy.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=168448

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