''Irreligious'' is the second studio album by Portuguese

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band Moonspell, released in 1996. It features some of the best-known songs of the band, such as "Opium", "Ruin & Misery", "Awake!" and "Full Moon Madness". The latter is usually the closing song during almost every Moonspell concert, which over time has become a characteristic of their concerts. Before the song begins, Fernando Ribeiro often makes the sign of the circle (symbolizing Moon) over the crowd. The third track, "Awake!", features a recording of Aleister Crowley reading his poem "The Poet". The album was promoted by the first Moonspell music video "Opium", which contained imagery of 19th-century-looking opium den.

Track listing

Personnel

* Fernando Ribeiro – vocals * Ricardo Amorim – guitars * João Pedro Escoval (Ares) – bass * Pedro Paixão – keyboards, samples * Miguel Gaspar (Mike) – drums ;Guest musicians * Markus Freiwald – percussion on "For a Taste of Eternity" * Birgit Zacher – vocals on "Raven Claws" ;Production * Rolf Brenner – photography * Siggi Bemm – engineering *

Waldemar Sorychta Waldemar Sorychta (born 1967) is a Polish heavy metal record producer and musician who has lived in Germany since 1982. Career He initially worked with German thrash metal band Despair, founded in 1986. In 1994 he took part in the recording ...

– producer, mixing

Charts

References

Moonspell albums 1996 albums Century Media Records albums Albums produced by Waldemar Sorychta {{1990s-metal-album-stub