MOONSPELL approach their 30th anniversary as a band with more ambition and stronger than ever. Hermitage - the 13th studio album by the pioneers of gothic metal - was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jaime Gomez Arellano at Orgone Studios in the UK. Drawing on the dark, revolutionary and sensitive facets of the album, it is an album that is both entertaining and an epic journey through the darkest days of human existence. Beautifully crafted tracks such as “The Greater Good” show us the modernity of the wolves in 2021, while “Common Prayers” fits into the MOONSPELL tradition of writing a dark gothic metal song like no other band can. “All Or Nothing” revives the ethereal and melodic sounds of MOONSPELL, served by a beautiful musical landscape, making it very likely one of the deepest and most sincerely heartbreaking tunes the Portuguese dark metal titans have ever written. But of course, they do not stray from their metal roots, especially under the influence of underground metal bands like Bathory on tracks like the bombastic and epic metal anthem “Hermit Saints”! Hermitage is a revolutionary, wonderfully intuitive and epic journey from one of the greatest dark metal bands of all time, and a testament to what they have always loved most: honest and emotional metal that binds us even in the darkest moments.