Release Year: 1997
Artist Origin: SWI
Style: enigmatic progressive atmospheric black metal
historical fourth Samael album is a daring, revolutionary step [1996] towards dark galactic neosymphonic metal, introducing samples and programming techniques, quite shocking to diehard extreme metal audience back in the day; more than that - they could have been kicked off the major label due to this brave paradigm, yet eventually a green light was granted for the realization of brave ideas, and time has estimated these challenging eleven songs with the highest mark available, proving once again that true masterpieces quite often are born only with determined breaking of the stereotypes; one of the first German editions comes with authentic cover artwork and design