'Samael's long-awaited sixth album, 2004's Reign of Light, was a significant chapter in the adventurous Swiss quartet's career in that it was less a heavy metal album infused with electronic elements (like its immediate predecessors) than a trip-hop/industrial album draped in heavy metal ingredients. As such, it was actually far more successful, on its own terms, than 1999's lackluster techno-black metal exercise Eternal, but for most long-term Samael fans who had waited half a decade for this, well, the ...   [ read more ]

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Coming off their best record yet in 1996's Passage, Swiss black metal gods Samael released this five-track EP as a stopgap before beginning to work on their next album. They also got to utilize the mostly solid leftovers from the previous record, including "Exodus" and "Tribes of Cain." Still, only serious completists will need to venture here. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide

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