Greek-based Rockpages Web Magazine spoke to Fernando Ribeiro from MOONSPELL recently during the promotion of their new album, Night Eternal, which will be released in Germany on May 16th, Europe on May 19th, and USA/Canada on June 10th.

Rockpages: I believe the new opus is darker than Memorial and tunes like 'Moon In Mercury', 'Night Eternal' and 'Spring Of Rage' are both fast and catchy. There’s also an untypical song here, 'Scorpion Flower'. It is the first time you make a duet with a female vocalist. Tell me some things about it.

Fernando: "We had female vocals but not a duet. It was my idea. When we first played 'Scorpion Flower' it was just a stupid file in the computer and everybody hated it, the others always hate that stuff and it is my job in the band to say 'let’s work on this because it’s really good' so I had a lyric and a concept and it was a very feminine thing like love and cult among women, a crazy variation of the cult of Mary, the dark virgin. So we started playing with the song and we needed a chorus. Then all of a sudden when I was at home with my wife looking for a chorus we stared grousing and singing some stuff together then she came up with this chorus line. I was like 'what the hell? You just wrote the biggest Moonspell hit ever!' So we started singing together and then I thought that the song needs some female vocals so then we got Anneke (ex-THE GATHERING, AGUA DEANNEKE) involved. We thought about a lot of people but she’s great and she belongs to our generation. She’s our age, she’s been in a band and we’ve toured together and she’s the most important girl for the roots of this movement because after The Gathering other bands with female frontwoman started to show up. That’s how it became a duet!"

The full interview can be found here.