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Moonspell have announced the “American Full Moon” 2023 North American tour, which will celebrate the Portuguese gothic metal band’s 30th anniversary.

Dates kick off April 29th in Brooklyn, New York, and run through May 25th in Boston. Eleine will support the entire run along with Vintersea and Oceans of Slumber each opening select dates.

Tickets to select shows go on sale Friday (February 24th) at noon local time via Ticketmaster. You can also pick up tickets via StubHub.

“Touring North America and Canada made us a stronger band on stage and we’ve learnt a lot about music, fans, and hard-work overseas,” said lead singer Fernando Ribeiro in a press release. “We see this 30 years tour as an opportunity to repay all the amazing fans over there who don’t get to see enough of us or hear enough of our music. We’re so proud we could bounce back...

In a lengthy post on the band's official Facebook news page, Portuguese gothic metallers Moonspell tossed their hungry fans (this writer included) plenty of fresh meat this week... particularly an update on their long-awaited ninth studio album. This is the first real album news posted by the band since they started discussing ideas for the new record in late 2009 (check out that story here), but at least they're finally working on the follow-up to their international smash Night Eternal. We've got the details below, courtesy of frontman Fernando Ribeiro, so hit the jump and read on... "I know we are being a bitch [for not] giving any solid news," Ribeiro began in the news post, "but we do have the...

Veteran metal rockers Moonspell have been immortalized on a commemorative postage stamp in the band's native Portugal. Sets of stamps are being printed by the Portuguese Postal Service (Ctt, Correios de Portugal) featuring the artwork from the band's 1995 album "Wolfheart", dubbing it one of the most significant rock records from the country.

The stamp, which costs one euro ($1.30), will be launched on July 19 and Moonspell vocalist, Fernando Ribeiro, admits the honour is a fitting one. He tells Blabbermouth.net: "Being that the whole of our career kick-started as penfriends and tapetraders, we could not think of a more perfect and suitable distinction."

In another news, the rock band is prepping the release of their new studio album which may be in stores in 2011. Ribeiro said the materials are "the most exciting, sexiest, darkest, heaviest and catchiest stuff we've written in ages!"...

Still riding high on the success of their amazing album Night Eternal – for which they recently wrapped a North American promotional tour – Portugal's epic dark-metal masters Moonspell are about to begin work on a new studio project for 2010. Frontman Fernando Ribeiro recently hinted at the dark new directions the band will be exploring soon, as well as some interesting horror-themed side ventures he's got in the works. Read below to find out what's brewing for next year... Ribeiro has issued an update via Blabbermouth explaining that the band would be backing off their relentless touring schedule a bit next year to make room for several new projects – chief among which is the writing of new...

In a recent interview with the German version of Metal Hammer magazine (recorded during that country's famous Summer Breeze music festival), Moonspell frontman Fernando Ribeiro discussed the Portuguese gothic-metal overlords' next studio project – something the singer hinted at being even "more blasphemous but also more elegant" than anything the band has attempted before... and that's saying a lot, since elegant blasphemy is this band's stock in trade. Catch the best bits below... Although the video interview begins in German, the reporter switches to English to chat with the towering Ribeiro, who comments how the fest's sunny outdoor venue is sort of at odds with his pale, vampiric nature,...