Moonspell - Anno Satanae - 1993/1996

1. Intro
2. Goat on Fire
3. Ancient Winter Goddess
4. Wolves From the Fog
5. Outro

Label: Lion Records

Moonspell, probably the best known Portuguese band.
I got the 1st contact with the band back in 92 when they were still known as MORBID GOD in the double LP "The birth of a tragedy" compilation.
I must say, didn't like them a bit. In fact i thought they had the weakest track on the hole compilation. Listening to all other bands i still do...

On to this demo. This is a re-release made in 1996. The band were having sucsess and someone got the idea of putting this again avaible. Not bad idea at all.
But as the music goes , not much changed sinse the MTM compilation. In fact i think the Morbid God track is better than this hole demo. Let's face it, i'm not a big Black Metal fan, and this is not really worth many listens. The most notorius defect is that it is Not very well played, and it shows.
The intro and "Goat on fire" were also present on the Compilation "Mortuary vol.1" that same year (1993).
Also in 2007 all these track were re-recorded. And now i can say i like this demo.
The re-recordings are SOOOO much better... I do tend to not liking these kinda releases but the "Under Satanae" compilation does these tracks a much more better justice.

Score: 4,5 (demo), 7,5 (re-release compilation cd "Under Satanae")