Moira (album)

Moira
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 03, 2008
GenreSymphonic metal
Metal Opera
Length1:19:59
LabelKing
ProducerRevo
Sound Horizon chronology
Roman
(2006)
Moira
(2008)
Märchen
(2010)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Moira is the sixth story CD released by the Japanese fantasy band Sound Horizon. It was released on September 3, 2008 through King Records. This album is the first and only to feature vocalists Takashi Utsunomiya,[2] Yoshimi Iwasaki and Ayaka Naito. It is also the first album with vocalists Miki Masuda and Minami Kuribayashi and the last to feature long time vocalists YUUKI, KAORI, and Haruka Shimotsuki. The album debuted at No. 3 on the Oricon weekly album charts, selling over 45,000 copies in its initial week.[3]

Moira's plot and Greek setting is very loosely modeled after real-life Greek mythology, the Iliad, and Heinrich Schliemann's discovery of the lost city of Troy (Ilion) using the epic as his guide during the late 19th century.

  1. ^ Greenberg, Adam. "Moira – Sound Horizon Reviews". AllMusic. Retrieved October 14, 2017.
  2. ^ "超豪華ヴォーカリスト参加で贈る、Sound Horizon待望のStory CD第6弾!". Nifty Music Network (in Japanese). Livedoor. August 19, 2008. Archived from the original on March 1, 2011. Retrieved October 3, 2010.
  3. ^ "Oricon Weekly Album Charts for the third week of September 2008" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved June 19, 2010.