Vocalist Fernando Ribeiro has revealed that Moonspell is almost done with the follow-up to their 2021 album 'Hermitage'.

In a January 14 social media post, he wrote: New album is almost finished, finishing mixes as we speak.

Last October, Fernando told Denis Denisdriver about Moonspell's upcoming LP: And what kind of music will it be?

"Our last album, full-length, it's from 2021, so it's gonna be five years since we released new music.

But we had to prepare ourselves, too, and we had to prepare our audience.

So we already wrote all the album.

We're gonna record it in December.

It's coming out in the summer of 2026.

I think in March you can already see the first single and the first video clip that we are gonna [film], I think, in January." Regarding the musical direction of the new Moonspell material, Fernando said: We'd done so much and we had so much musical experience and extensions, et cetera, that we felt in our heart that we had to do a very classic album.

So it's a gothic metal album.

"I don't know if it's 'Irreligious Part Two' or whatever — it's not the terms we are thinking — but it's beautiful songs, romantic songs, melancholic songs with great riffs, great solos, great atmosphere, lyrics about fiction and fantasy.

So we are very, very happy with the result of the songwriting.

Now we're going to record it, and we can't wait for our fans to discover new songs about Moonspell, because I think it's high time they do that.

I'm curious about their reaction, as always, but I think we're gonna have a great time together when the new album is out and when we take it on the road and on the festivals."

Fernando went on to say that he and his Moonspell bandmates are 'very lucky' to still [have] the drive to do new music and to have such a beautiful past and such an unpredictable past because I never thought that the Moonspell could be a professional band and tour and have fans all around the world.

It was too good to be true when we were starting off in Portugal — especially coming out of Portugal that nobody had ever done it before us.