SAMAEL

Release Year: 2020
Artist Origin: SWI
Style: fundamental mystic satanic black metal

highly influenced by seminal morbid metal projects of country mate Tom G. Warrior, this seminal debut longplay [1991] of exceptional Swiss entity was totally different from the second black metal wave roaring from Scandinavian woods, setting an esoteric, atmospheric vibe around, yet it was one of these fundamental recordings to develop another, highly individual perspective for ever-rising extreme music genre, into the pentagram pointing a gloomy and cold satanic masterpiece, nailing a founding slab of genre-defying sounds along some glorious procreators lurking in Greece, Brazil and Czechia with such essential cuts as Into The Pentagram or Morbid Metal; recent French edition comes with authentic cover artwork