Anneke Van Giersbergen performs with Moonspell at Fortarock; video available
Former The Gathering singer Anneke van Giersbergen joined Portuguese metallers Moonspell on stage at the Fortarock festival on July 11, 2009 in Nijmegen, Holland to perform the song "Scorpion Flower".Fan-filmed video footage of her appearance can be viewed below.
The recorded version of "Scorpion Flower", which appears on Moonspell's new album, "Night Eternal", also features Anneke. All other female choirs were performed by the Crystal Mountain Singers, composed of Carmen Simões (Ava Inferi), Sophia Vieira (Cinemuerte) and Patrícia Andrade (ex-Volstad, now in The Vanity Chair). Niclas Etelävuori of Amorphis played bass on the album, which features artwork by Seth Siro Anton (Paradise Lost, Septic Flesh). Band photography was handled by Edgar Keats.
The follow-up to 2006's "Memorial" was recorded at Antfarm studios in Denmark with producer Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity, Halford).
Two editions of the record were made available: A limited double digipack with different artwork, one bonus track ("Age of Mothers"), a different version of the song "Scorpion Flower", the full album as well as a bonus DVD containing all video clips from "Memorial" plus "Finisterra" "making-of" footage and three live clips from the 2007 performance at the Wacken Open Air festival in Germany; plus the jewel case edition.
Moonspell's video for the track "Scorpion Flower" is one of two (along with "Night Eternal") off the group's new album, "Night Eternal", which were shot by Ivan Colic (Type O Negative, Symphony X, Hammerfall) in Belgrade, Serbia. Colic previously worked with the group on the "Memorial" video for "Finisterra".