Moonspell "Alpha Noir/Omega White"

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.

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

Track listing

Alpha Noir

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

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

Recording information:

Drums recorded at Antfarm Studios, Aarhus, Denmark.

Alpha session June 2011; Omega session September 2011.

Pre-produced at Inferno studios, Olival Basto, Portugal during summer 2009 and spring 2011.