Samael

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Available videos:

1. Slavocracy
2. Infra Galaxia
3. Shining Kingdom
4. Telepath
5. Son of Earth
6. Year Zero
7. Together
8. Jupiterian Vibe
9. Rain
10. Baphomet's Throne
11. The Cross
12. My Savior
13. Black Trip
14. Inch'Allah
15. On Earth
16. Worship Him (Live 1992)
17. Into The Pentagram (Live 1992)

Available Concerts:

1. Live at Metalmania 2003
2. Lausanne concert from 29.06.006

Metal Music Store:

1. Buy Samael albums
2. Buy Samael DVDs
   

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Samael are a long-running Swiss black metal band formed in 1987.

Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are also notable as an early black metal band and innovator for post-black metal styles.

Their first demos presented a slow, doomy style of thrash metal with raw vocals, similar to that of Celtic Frost. Some of the songs would be included on Worship Him (1990) and Blood Ritual (1992), which was assisted in distribution with the help of late guitarist Euronymous (Øystein Aarseth) of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem.

Around the time of Ceremony of Opposites (1994), the band started using industrial-styled song techniques, employed by the use of keyboards and (minimalist) acoustic percussion. By this time, they had also left French record label Osmosis Records and signed with Century Media Records.

After the release of Eternal (1999), Samael would not renew their contract with Century Media. In 2004, Reign of Light was released through independent label Galactical Records.

In 2006, their album Era One was released on Century Media Records. It includes a bonus disc, "Lesson in Magic #1," which is entirely instrumental and done solely by band member Xy. The album itself was recorded in 2002, and the bonus disc a year later. Both were rearranged and remixed in 2005.



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