Moonspell is a Portuguese gothic metal band, formed in 1989 as Morbid God. After renaming themselves Moonspell in 1992, they released their first EP Under the Moonspell in 1994, a year before of the release of their first album Wolfheart. The band quickly gained status and became one of the most recognizable metal bands from Portugal.

Moonspell reached the Portuguese top first with their album Sin/Pecado, and were, along with Metallica and Iron Maiden, the only metal band to reach the first place of the Portuguese charts after the release of their latest album, Memorial, in 2006. With Memorial, Moonspell also became the first Portuguese heavy metal band to have a record certified gold status. They are also very popular in Germany, where Memorial entered in 68th in the Top 100 Chart.

The "dark cemetery dotted with crosses and gnarled, bared branches" is a recognisable element of the gothic film genre and can be seen here in the backdrop of this live performance from Moonspell in 2006, Spain.
The "dark cemetery dotted with crosses and gnarled, bared branches" is a recognisable element of the gothic film genre[119] and can be seen here in the backdrop of this live performance from Moonspell in 2006, Spain.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonspell

The Portuguese band Moonspell's debuted in 1994 with Under the Moonspell, "one of the more worthy black metal releases of the early '90s". The music on this EP was "atmospheric with folk and Middle Eastern influences",drawing inspiration from Dead Can Dance[ through the use of guest musicians on the flute, violin, timpani, gongs and Arabic vocals. On the strength of this EP, the band became "the frontrunners" in the Portuguese metal scene and were offered a recording deal by the "major German independent label Century Media Records". It was through this label that they released their first full length album Wolfheart in 1995, making a transition into gothic metal by "incorporating the genre's trademark elements" of "morbid lyrical schemes, dreary and melancholy riffs, ambient keyboards" and "demonic chorales". While the music of Moonspell has "always flirted between Metal music and Darkwave and Gothic", the inspiration for this first album was still black metal groups like Celtic Frost and Bathory.Their next album Irreligious in 1996 was inspired instead by the goth pioneers Type O Negative, a group that they soon toured with. Other influences that Moonspell has recognized include the goth rock acts Mission U.K., the Sisters of Mercy and "especially" Fields of the Nephilim. Wolfheart had "caused a minor sensation on the European underground with its epic metallic hymns" while Irreligious had "reinforced their position as heralds of the Gothic metal movement".By the time of their fourth album Butterfly Effect in 1999, Moonspell had "quickly evolved into one of the major players of the European goth-metal scene". In the process however, the band has strayed from their black metal roots.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_metal#Gothic_black_metal