Skymning had really found its lane with Artificial Supernova , and if anything, Machina Genova takes them further down that direction with...

If Stormchoirs was a sign of its times, then Artificial Supernova might be seen as AHEAD of its times. Since three years had already passe...

It's weird that anyone would feel that an average album like Power of the Damager would necessitate an album full of electro industri...

When Prong re-emerged after a five year hiatus, the longest yet in the band's career, they did so with their first full-length live a...

Rude Awakening  was another of those heavily divisive albums of the 90s, by a band that was constantly reinvigorating itself by layering i...

This EP always struck me as a rather strange, unfortunate sort of experiment, the main reasons being that 1) the track "Whose Fist is...

It's evident that the members of Samael and myself seem to agree on the Passage- era being the one most inspiring and interesting to ...

While Eternal is clearly a spiritual successor to Passage in terms of its spacey aesthetics, focused cover imagery and further progressi...

While Samael wouldn't ultimately jump back on the horse for me until the angrier, 2009 effort Above , their seventh full-length '...

There was a brief window of time in which I had convinced myself that Reign of Light was a great follow-up to Eternal , Samael 's fir...

If Aeonics wasn't inevitable, then I don't know what is. Like other 'top shelf' metal record labels (Roadrunner, for exam...

...and onto part two of my three part series on Samael 's most useless recordings, the On Earth EP was the second and I believe last ...

Telepath is the sort of redundant waste of molecules I always rue seeing from my favorite acts, and yet by 2004, Samael had long been a ...

The interlocution of extreme metal and electronica/industrial elements is one I've followed for quite some time now, having worked on ...

Prototype is both the strangest Celtic Frost recording and what might lamentably represent the biggest identity crisis in their history, b...

For whatever reason, my paths have never crossed with Umbah in the past. Unusual, since the project has produced a dozen albums to date, bu...

Amazing, the life that Peter Tägtgren's Pain has taken on for itself. I would have thought this dead in the ditch at maybe 2 or 3 album...

Perhaps it was my disappointment that it wasn't Coma of Souls II , but Renewal is an album I disliked for several years. Can I think ba...