Best Samael lp?

Guest · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 5:32 am Post subject: Best Samael lp?

I'd go with Ceremony of Opposites as all songs on that album are so damn' brilliant and have their own personality whereas both WH and BR contain 1-2 tracks that sound a bit like fillers to my ears. I'd go as far as say CoO is one of the 5 best black metal albums ever as I can't see a single letdown there, supreme riffing, razorsharp vocals and possibly the best keyboards ever on a metal album.

Assuming I'm dealing with a bunch of close-minded beerdrinking metal morons, I intentionally left all post 1994 albums out of the poll as you most likely lack the needed intellectual skills to get into their latest stuff.

Mutta · Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 267 Location: Sweden

Worship Him is defenatley their best album , fuckin great raw sounding tunes and rasping vocals .

The other 2 albums are pretty boring .

Guest · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 8:53 am Post subject:

I say Blood Ritual. Mostly because it was the first Samael's LP I ever listened to, he. Leaving any nostalgic thought aside, Worship Him.

Voted for BR, anyway.

Crucifixion Vomit · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 250 Location: Italy

WORSHIP HIM, for sure. One of the best BM album ever. Anyway, I like Blood Ritual and Ceremony of Opposites too. I haven't heard the next material.

Guest · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:53 am Post subject: Re: Best Samael lp?

passetiermes · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2147 Location: Finland

Goab · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 862 Location: Spain

Samael is one the very few bands that have experimented a huge stylistical development with each album while, in the other hand, haven't wimped out nor have flirted with commercialism. Like it or not, the use and increassing addition of electronic elements is far away of being understood as a pathetical strategic move in order to achieve a wider audience.

I can't choose between any of their first three records since each one of them are unique masterpices that represent the artistic will and the necessity of Vorph and Xy on every particular moment of expressing themselves on such moods, and so does the rest of their discography. I'm not that impressed by their last two albums but both "Passage" and "Exodus" deserve my full consideration as I put them on the same level than their "classic" records which are among my favest ones as well.

I'm really glad to see that independently that many of us on this forum are mostly fond of the orthodox and conservative sounds in Metal, there's at the same time people with a good taste on those bands who bravely have dared to go one step beyond and have succeded on such a challenge.

NWN PROD · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 14459 Location: SF Bay Area

It's a tie between Worship Him and Blood Ritual.
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DESECRATOR777 · Joined: 20 Jul 2007 Posts: 1669 Location: satan island, ny

worship him is good. but blood ritual is better. very eeerrriieeee.

Straxus · Joined: 07 Nov 2007 Posts: 424 Location: From Peruvian Hell

I Voted for Worship Him, because the whole is so extremely evil sounding... the haunts are so intense, the guitar very intense and heavy, and the doble pedals do their quote...

In the other hand, Blood Ritual it is a lot more technical, and I like the drums... you never can follow the drums, he improvises every minute...

By the way, I don´t see many Lex Talionis posts lately...
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harmless · Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:24 am Post subject:

Blood Ritual. Worship Him is the diet version of BR, in my opinion.
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Tal666 · Guest

Defintly Worship Him, this album has one of the most evil atmospheres ever.

NWN PROD · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 14459 Location: SF Bay Area

The first three are alll good for different reasons. I like Worship Him for the stripped down approach both musically and production wise.
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Endless Morbidity · Joined: 17 Oct 2007 Posts: 2108 Location: New York

Worship Him is a monument of Black Metal, Blood Ritual is fucking great as well. Both are equally excellent.

Ceremony of Opposites is a pile of crap, as is every thing they have done since.

NWN PROD · Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 14459 Location: SF Bay Area

Ceremony of Opposites suffers from modern production. The song writing is just as good as Blood Ritual.
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