If you liked Moonspell from the era "Wolfheart" анд "Irreligious", you probably do not want to know anything about them from the releasing of "Memorial" or few years before it. We can’t hide it - the band has changed vastly through these 19 years of existence. As if it came of age and decided to hold a different position with the sole purpose of showing it can be independent and find its new face. The old supporters of the band probably won’t know that "Night Eternal" was released, but the ones that will hear it will certainly understand that the change in the music is accomplished by an unflagging way. There is not a trace of the folk/black beginning, which gave shove to Moonspell in the middle of the nineties. The musicians are now in their middle age and have chosen to go deep into the depths of the death/gothic sound. Someone will accept this turn as a beginning of a new journey to the more commercial and topical latitudes, but this will mean that maybe in the one and only good Portuguese metal band there isn’t a sensible musician. Actually in the album there are the well-known psychopaths who made a new reading of their dark deliriums. In "Night Eternal" we hear more melody and female vocals than ever ("Scorpion Flower"), Opeth influences ("Shadow Sun", "Hers Is the Twilight"), many orchestrations, acoustic guitar preludes, throaty vocal attacks and a large quantity of clear singing. The disc is not easy to assimilate and this makes it even more interesting and intriguing for the “open” ear. Moonspell started a new direction which divided their fans in two, and the new album hardens this and shows that there'll be no turning back. We can only rely on the sense of Fernando Ribeiro and his colleagues that they will not fall into the abyss they dug out by themselves and filled it up with evilness and darkness a few years ago.