''Memorial'' is the seventh studio album by Portuguese

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, 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

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edition with the "Atlantic" bonus track. On 16 January 2007, ''Memorial'' was certified

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by the

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for selling over 10,000 copies in Portugal. This is the first time a Portuguese heavy metal group has received this award. 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

Special and digipak edition

Portuguese edition

DVD (Special Edition) Live at CC Estudio 2 # "Memento Mori" # "Blood Tells" # "Sanguine" # "Best Forgotten" Live at Vilar de Mouros # "In Memoriam" # "Finisterra" # "Memento Mori" # "Blood Tells" # "Proliferation" # "Upon the Blood of Men" Videos # "Luna" # "Finisterra" # "Making of Finisterra"

Vinyl edition

Personnel

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

Additional musicians

* Waldemar Sorychta – bass * Raimund Gitsels –

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* Birgit Zacher – female vocals on "Luna" and "Sanguine" * Big Boss – vocals on "At the Image of Pain"

Production

* 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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Memorial 2006 albums Moonspell albums SPV/Steamhammer albums Albums produced by Waldemar Sorychta