Icons of Portuguese gothic metal MOONSPELL have launched a lyric video for their new single, “The Great Wolf in the Sky,” just days ahead of the release of their critically lauded new studio album Far From God. The single features the band’s trademark blend of dark atmospheres, soaring melodies and emotional intensity, delivering another intriguing taste of what promises to be one of the band’s most acclaimed LPs to date.

MOONSPELL present a grand Gothic anthem in “The Great Wolf in the Sky,” with sweeping keys, harmonized guitars, powerful vocals and a guest appearance by Alicia Nuhro on strings. Frontman Fernando Ribeiro reveals: “It’s a shameless ode to the great gig in the sky and also a return for us to a theme that is very dear to us: Wolves. This is one of my favorite songs ever for Moonspell; the keyboards sound like a melancholic wolf howling throughout the progress of the song into its epic chorus, that I feel so liberating, like if one took flight to the stars and met that wolf up there. It’s one of the first songs that was written for this album, and it has been gently nurtured for over 3 years or so. It tells the story of Moonspell, of the wolves who crossed our paths and went away from the pack due to life circumstances of the inevitability of death. It bridges the many times of Moonspell, past, present, and future, and it has the shape of a new anthem that we do hope our fans embrace. It’s also dedicated to a fan and a friend who, unfortunately, passed away before he could hear our new album.”

Watch/listen to the new lyric video here.

Their next album is a stunning return for the band after five years of creative quest, doubt, and ultimately rediscovery. Far from playing it safe, MOONSPELL offer a work that feels like a rebirth, darker, sharper and emotionally uncensored. Rather than succumbing to the whims of modern trends, the band doubles down on identity and substance, delivering a powerful and stunning statement of gothic metal in its purest essence: dark, passionate, dramatic and unapologetically heavy.

Thematically, Far From God deals with Baudelairean love, existential guilt and salvation, Christ-like resurrections and the calm majesty of creatures of the night. In this world, vampires, werewolves and spiritual symbols are not escapist but conduits for real dark emotion: Solemn, beautiful, and uninhibited. The album avoids false gloss in favor of imagination anchored in sincerity, recovering the core of gothic metal in its most authentic form.

Speaking about the inspiration behind Far From God, Ribeiro explains: “The title resonates how we have all strayed from our path into the direction of the fool’s gold instead of genuine dark feelings and their deep and solemn transmission into the light via music and lyrics and art. I won’t dare to say it’s the best album we ever did. I’m too old, too wise, and too scarred by people not noticing the talent that Moonspell has to conjure the melodies of dark with elegance and wit. I can only say that we fell in love again with the prospect of our new music and that it took us more than five years to travel this deep into ourselves, just to surface before your eyes with our new album. We were not only inspired, we were touched by a muse, and it was her who brought us here, to this musical redemption, to this artful statement of true gothic metal. Moonspell has been our only true influence for this one.”

Far From God is produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Sólstafir, Ghost, among many others) and sparkles like a black diamond, luminous yet shadowy in texture and color, musically and acoustically. It evokes the darker atmosphere of the legendary MOONSPELL era but sounds forceful and current. Far From God is not nostalgia but a statement. A gothic metal hallelujah. MOONSPELL Irreligious (21st century). It’s not only a powerful reminder that MOONSPELL remain a defining force in the genre they helped shape, but an album that will truly save Gothic Metal from boredom and predictability.

Artwork painted by Eliran Kantor

FAR FROM GOD TRACK LISTING: “Cross Your Heart” “Far From God” “Biblical” “The Great Wolf in the Sky (Feat. Alicia Nuhr/Strings)” “Your Promise of Light” “For the Love of Mortals” “Our Freedom to Fall” “Reconquista”