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...

Era One/Lesson in Magick #1 might have come as a surprise to many unaware Samael fans, but it was not wholly unexpected from this sector...

Being that there was next to no possibility of topping Passage (then and forevermore, apparently), Samael did the next best thing by rel...

Rebellion is at the very least an interesting little median between Samael 's strongest albums, a relic from a time when most bands s...

For quite a few folks I know, Ceremony of Opposites is the point at which first contact was made with the music of Samael , and thus it c...

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 ...

Blood Ritual was my first experience with Samael . It must have been around the time I was 18-19, and the black metal selection here was s...

Worship Him is aesthetically the full-length expansion to the style of the Medieval Prophecy EP, but the intervening years had been put ...

Now this is a tough one, because on the one hand, Medieval Prophecy is the nastiest shit Samael has ever recorded. On the other, the ...

Having long harbored an obsequious deference towards Samael 's 1996 epic Passage , I have eagerly awaited, with each new album in the ba...

Even though its quality would not match some of the band's heights, it was good to hear Samael return to a more aggressive form with th...

Samael have been on a tear in the past few years, but to be honest they've been producing the type of albums that only the dedicated fa...