Moonstruck

The Moonstruck Project is a goth / black metal inspired necrosound production with new-age influences.  Inspired by the unkempt landscape of Ayrshire on the south west coast of Scotland, Moonstruck is about the old ruined castles and kirks, the ghost stories, the dark winter's nights and the characters who have lived here, past and present.  The firsr album was eponymously named.  The music started off very old school goth / pagan  influenced, with nods to the Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, Fields of The Nephelim and bands like All About Eve and Inkubus Sukkubus (I had quite a crush on Candia McKormack in my youth), and evolving into a more blatantly Wiccan / Pagan and Scandinavian metal influenced sound.  Even though I'm an Atheist, I was drawn to people like Miriam Simos and picked up on the poetry of the language she used.  I also liked the Wiccan philosophy of doing your will provided it doesn't harm others, an extension of Aleister Crowley's philosophy for a more collectivist political agenda.  This combined with Norse and Celtic Mythology and J.R.R. Tolkien to create the second album, called In The Shadow of The Gray Dawn.  The third album, Necrosound, was in large part a greatest hits compilation of the first two albums, with the stocking fillers that were on them left out.  The cover for the third album was kindly provided by Ethereal Dark, Lilith Ligea and Dark Vanian of the Manchester Vampire Guild.  The Moonstruck Project has seen a recent revival with the release of an EP in March 2025 called The Cold North Wind.

C0unt WAVnstein - Bass, Guitars, Synths, ZX Spectrums , Drums.

Bruno Stachel - Synths, Keyboards, Piano

Alan Frew - Guitar, Lead Guitar

Suzy Blue - Lyrics on Pirates of The Search For Meaning

Kimberly Tribble - Lyrics on My Beautiful Rain

Melissa Winning and Kimberly Tribble - Cover Photo Models

Vicereine De Mournay - Lyrics to My Dying Soul, The Cold North Wind, and Voice Intro to The Cold North Wind E.P.

Cover Models on Necrosound - Ethereal Dark and Lilith Ligea (Photo by Dark Vanian)