MOONSPELL, through their official Facebook account, announced the termination of their collaboration, due to personal reasons, with their drummer, Mike Gaspar, the hiring of Hugo Ribeiro in his place, as well as information about their upcoming release. Below, the band’s announcement.

“Moonspell hereby informs that Mike Gaspar is no longer our band member. The reasons of this split, as accorded,  will remain in between the parts involved. We ask that privacy is fully observed.

Moonspell now enters a new cycle and are already working with a new drummer Hugo Ribeiro (not family related with the singer). Their new album, provisorily referred to as H, will be recorded with the producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Paradise Lost, Ulver, Ghost), between September and October this year. It will be released via Napalm Records on the first semester of 2021.”