Original Version Promo Version Digipack Version
1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43
2. Love crimes 7:34 2. Love crimes 7:34 2. Love crimes 7:34
3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59
4. Lua d'inverno 1:48 4. Lua d'inverno 1:48 4. Lua d'inverno 1:48
5. Trebaruna 3:30 5. Trebaruna 3:30 5. Trebaruna 3:30
6. Vampiria 5:36 6. Vampiria 5:36 6. Vampiria 5:36
7. An erotic alchemy 8:05 7. An erotic alchemy 8:05 7. An erotic alchemy 8:05
8. Alma mater 5:38 8. Alma mater 5:38 8. Alma mater 5:38
9. Ataegina 4:01
total time 43:53 total time 43:53 total time 47:53
LP Version Double CD Version Rerelease 2LP Version
1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43
2. Love crimes 7:34 2. Love crimes 7:34 2. Love crimes 7:34
3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59
4. Lua d'inverno 1:48 4. Lua d'inverno 1:48 4. Lua d'inverno 1:48
5. Trebaruna 3:30 5. Trebaruna 3:30 5. Trebaruna 3:30
6. Vampiria 5:36 6. Vampiria 5:36 6. Vampiria 5:36
7. An erotic alchemy 8:05 7. An erotic alchemy 8:05 7. An erotic alchemy 8:05
8. Alma mater 5:38 8. Alma mater 5:38 8. Alma mater 5:38
9. Ataegina 4:01 9. Ataegina 4:01 9. Ataegina 4:01
--- Bonus disc --- --- Bonus disc ---
--- Live Saarbrücken, Germany, winter 1995 --- --- Live Saarbrücken, Germany, winter 1995 ---
1. Intro 1:41 1. Intro 1:41
2. Love crimes 4:56 2. Love crimes 4:56
3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:34 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:34
4. An erotic alchemy 4:57 4. An erotic alchemy 4:57
5. Lua d'inverno 1:34 5. Lua d'inverno 1:34
6. Trebaruna 3:18 6. Trebaruna 3:18
--- Live Paris, France, fall 1995 --- --- Live Paris, France, fall 1995 ---
1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 6:23 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 6:23
2. Vampiria 5:04 2. Vampiria 5:04
3. Alma mater 5:19 3. Alma mater 5:19
total time 47:53 total time 1:24:39 total time 1:24:39
Picture LP Version Deluxe Boxset Version
1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 7:43
2. Love crimes 7:34 2. Love crimes 7:34
3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:59
4. Lua d'inverno 1:48 4. Lua d'inverno 1:48
5. Trebaruna 3:30 5. Trebaruna 3:30
6. Vampiria 5:36 6. Vampiria 5:36
7. An erotic alchemy 8:05 7. An erotic alchemy 8:05
8. Alma mater 5:38 8. Alma mater 5:38
9. Ataegina 4:01 9. Ataegina 4:01
--- Bonus disc --- --- Bonus disc ---
--- Live Saarbrücken, Germany, winter 1995 --- --- Live Saarbrücken, Germany, winter 1995 ---
1. Intro 1:41 1. Intro 1:41
2. Love crimes 4:56 2. Love crimes 4:56
3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:34 3. ...Of dream and drama (midnight ride) 3:34
4. An erotic alchemy 4:57 4. An erotic alchemy 4:57
5. Lua d'inverno 1:34 5. Lua d'inverno 1:34
6. Trebaruna 3:18 6. Trebaruna 3:18
--- Live Paris, France, fall 1995 --- --- Live Paris, France, fall 1995 ---
1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 6:23 1. Wolfshade (a werewolf masquerade) 6:23
2. Vampiria 5:04 2. Vampiria 5:04
3. Alma mater 5:19 3. Alma mater 5:19
--- Bonus LP ---
1. Vampiria (original version)
2. Vampiria (live in Paris, 1995)
total time 1:24:39 total time 1:24:39


WOLFSHADE (A Werewolf Masquerade)

She brought the Night hidden in her sad Wolf eyes
The perfume of a twilight, her strongest scent
Half Wolf, Half female - what a strange wedding
Mother Nature has offered us to see...

Her mask lays lost in a fatal dawn
Closed were the eyes of the Sun. He sleeps.
And in the name of Her Father.
She will kill. My child kills.

You nightly birth. A requiem God can't forget.
For your life is just a celebration of his death
Without his thorns in her heart. She wears a shadow as face.
A werewolf masquerade. In her eyes the wolfshade.

She brought the Night and by the night was brought
We are but children of the powers she had set free
Strange are the ways of the wolfhearted...


LOVE CRIMES

The cold nights have awakened Me
The soft winds to undress Me
The nails of two witches hav touched Me
Their caress cuts like the sharpest ice

Yes it is their way, this so mysterious way
of welcoming Me, welcoming Me
Their way to remember
Distant nights of Passion and Doom
Where, naked, have I bathed in velvet waters
Witnessed by an accomplice smile inside an innocent Moon

Serene were the beings who guided Me
Empty were the hands which undresses Me
To carve strange symbols unknown to Me
but lay so dearly inside of Me

This is my way, this so mysterious way
of welcoming She, welcoming She
My way to remember
Distant nights of Passion and Doom
Where, naked, have I bathed in velvet waters
Witnessed by an accomplice smile inside an innocent Moon

Serene were the beings who guided Me
Empty were the hands which undresses Me
To carve strange symbols unknown to Me
but lay so dearly inside of Me

This is my way, this so mysterious way
of welcoming She, welcoming She
My way to remember
Distant nights of Passion and Doom
Where we both wore flesh crowns to defy
The skies in their blue and so vague tyranny

We are mute villains
drinking of Love as insolent Vampires
Valsing through stars and skies
at that and all to come Winter nights

Like neophyte ravens in the strangest nest
Charmed by the wilderness of this strange host
Drawing naivety with our blood and semen
Ritually engraved in our hearts and chests
Marks of a pain, signs of a love crime
That will forever and never last

It is our way, this so mysterious way of loving
of welcoming thee, welcoming thee
Our way to remember
Forever lost nights of Passion and Doom
Remembrance served in cups of sorrow and pride
For all the eternities we'll still cry
For having lost amidst the stars our bride
Untouchable in her smile, inside the great Silver Eye
Every night she is condemned to shine


...OF DREAM AND DRAMA (Midnight Ride)

You've no mother to feed you
or to lick your so deep wounds
nor Earth where to lay your timid crown
You've suffered by your father
and even the Moon lies to you
When she shines...

The seduction of an altar
Is a weakness in her movements of Death
It is a mere vanity of Woman
to delay her midnight ride
Suicide... Midnight ride...

Beautiful dagger you may now leave your case
Wild red tears at the lady's hand
Kissed were her breasts with your sharpened face
Given is now what Love had taken
death and Love, they together danced

Yes, the flames did smile to her
Invited her to their fiery peace
To a funebre dance around a bonfire
Where all Women are naked and alone
Immolating their pride
May they forever ride. Far, in a midnight crime.
Midnight Ride, Suicide, Midnight Ride...


TREBRARUNA

Trebraruna filha da Dor
Guerreira sagrada, Deusa do Amor
Trebraruna teu leito semente
Acolhe-nos agora num muy doce abraço
Trebraruna és Vida és Morte
da Lua és filha, dos Lobos consorte
Trebraruna pagão é teu ventre
Ansiado refúgio de quem ainda te sente
Viva!

Trebraruna és tu quem nos gera
Alimento teu seio d'Amor e de Guerra
Trebraruna a tua voz é
a melodia mais doce da nossa Terra
Trebraruna nós tuas crianças
Beijamos teus olhos cerrados com fervor
Trebraruna cantamos para ti
Somos teu eterno, fiel trovador


VAMPIRIA

Vampiria, you are my destiny
My only Love and true destiny
Vampiria...

You're a beast, evil one
Above your head lays a Star
In your heart is buried the jewel
of a Serpent who wished to die
your red long tongue has her poison
And you will spread it as you breed
Conceiving the creed of all creeds

Vampiria, fly Vampiria

In your eye burn, defying
All those who in silence sleep
In a city once named Desire
Dreaming with the entombed dear

The lady has fallen in a blossom
Spread far away by undesirable winds
To females conspiring in gloom
Hiding your pearls from the pigs

So open your arms!
They were shaped as wings
A serenade of revenge draw on your lips

The sombre hill you're staying in
Is now defined
And your Star had start to shine

Depart now on your bright wings
The world envy
The skies have always seduced you
Precious Queen
and you know your time has come
To fly away with Me, so far...


AN EROTIC ALCHEMY

Queen of all my sleepless nights
For whose beauty I, Faun
have played my pipes, with heart
Queen in white silk, skin like milk
Horns of Faun, lips of dawn
You are now honoured you with my presence
As I'm honoured by your sight
I crown your perfection
The predator in your breast, I devour

"Tempted is now my light body"

From where it burns spirals of exotic scents
Rose, sandal, jasmine, all kinds of incense
Aged fragrances only dreamed of once
Dragons do dream far beyond the sense
We make love in the dusty throne
of a Modern Sodoma

"Come to Me, step further into my nakedness
Caress me in your breasts of Fire"

"Breed my flame, have no fear or weakness
I welcome you in my hole of desire"

"Have me now, Prince, have me here"
Your beg still whispers in my ear

Daylight has broken into a strange nostalgia

Night tired candles seem like two lovers
Melt in a embrace of conspiracy
Between us there is this strange chemistry
but would you die for me?
would you die for what I've longed to be?

"Imperious, choleric, irascible,
extreme in everything,
with a dissolute imagination of the like
which has never been seen,
atheistic to the point of fanaticism,
there you have me in a nutshell
and kill me again or take me as I am,
for I shall not change."
(De Sade)

"Breed of a nameless force, origin of our Sin
We are as large as Gods, we are their tragedy
We are the four arms of the solar Cross
Lightning in incredulous faces the flames of Uthopy"

Would you die for this?


ALMA MATER

Mother Tongue speaks to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in Me
Her proudest child, her purest breed

She speaks to Me in colours
That I can't really understand
I only know that they are ours
And to those I'll proudly bend

For I am your only child
And you my dearest mystery
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the Power within.

For I am your only child
And you my dearest mystery
World can't you see it?
Am I alone in my belief?

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós
Glória Antiga, volta a nós!

ALMA MATER!

Breaking waves announce my Bride
It is the only way the Sea could sing
Legends of Lusitanian pride
He sings the words I cannot spring

At the Moon Mountain six wolves cry
Your lost glory we'll regain or die

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest mystery
Pagan Gods in conspiracy
For the sword of Tyranny

Mother Tongue has spoke to thee
In the strongest way they've ever seen
World can't you see ?
I am not alone in my belief.

ALMA MATER!

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós
Glória Antiga, volta a nós!

ALMA MATER!

Mother Tongue has spoke to Me
In the strongest way I've ever seen
I know that she sees in Me
Her proudest child, her purest breed

She speaks to Me in colours
I can't really understand
I only know that they are ours
and to those I'll proudly bend

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest mystery
From an ancient throne I defy the world
To kneel before the powers within.

For I am her only child
And she is my dearest tragedy
World can't you see it?
I am not alone in my belief.

Virando costas ao Mundo
Orgulhosamente sós

ALMA MATER!


ATAEGINA

Na Ara da Vida jaz uma morte
A ti te lanço a minha sorte
Ataegina tríade fatal
Pálida Deusa, doce é teu mal

Centenas de corvos sobre o rochedo
Cantam em coro histórias de Medo
De Primaveras que a morte abraça
Em ti encontram a sua desgraça

Devotio Ver Sacrum,
Devotio Consecratio,
Capittis Dirae
Rainha da Noite, Rainha Natura
Saudoso berço primaveril

Já se choram filhos perdidos
Para terras amargas sem retorno
Onde à voz dos Deuses Perdidos
Bebe o povo o sangue do corno

Corças alvas trazem esperança
Lembram destinos, a vitória
Nobre Guerra, furiosa dança
Do pó sai um rumor de glória

Devotio Ver Sacrum,
Devotio Consecratio,
Capittis Dirae
Rainha da Noite, Rainha Natura
Saudoso berço primaveril


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Line up





Ares - bass
Langsuyar - vox
Passionis - keys
Mike - drums
Mantus - guitar





Artwork

























Info



All music by Moonspell, all lyrics by Langsuyar
Produced at Moonspell at Studio 2 (29/01 until 13/02 1995 e.v.)
Backing vocals and chorus by Tanngrisnir and Passionis
Female vocals by Birgit Zacher
Logo by Christopher Szpadjel
Photocredits: Paulo Moreira, Nuno Cartaxo
Layout and design: Carsten Drescher
Wolfpaintings by Axel Hermann

We welcome to the wolfpack the newborn guitarist Ricardo

Management:
C.Otterbach for Direct
tel: (+49) 231 - 16 25 42
fax: (+49) 231 - 16 25 51





Review



Whow. Some cds just remain important in the history of metal. This really is one of those, which is clear the first time you hear it. It's a very cool and unique style that lies somewhere between black and doom metal, with influences from many other styles. It is very varying, with soft and hard parts, with clear vocals and grunts, some female vocals and lots of keyboards. Still the second part of the cd is better than the first (though the first song rules too...). If the first songs were as good as the last, this cd would have been rated 9 maybe 9.5 ...

Rating: 8.5 out of 10


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