Customer Reviews

Blood Ritual / Worship Him

5 star:		(5)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I am predominantly a thrash/death metal fan. Though I have been listening to black metal of late, a lot of it has seemed too distant for my tastes.

That is, until I heard Samael.

This is one album you need to check out. It is black metal but with very catchy riffs and not much changes in tempo. Though I would not like to go into rating individual songs, I beleive the songs that stand out are

After The Sepulture - a true masterpiece !
Beyond The Nothingness
With The Gleam Of The Torches

So all you 'wanna listen to black metal but most are too inaccessible' folks out there, go ahead and get this album by the Swiss masters. You will not be disappointed.

Similar to the innovating debut 'Worship Him', this second album from Samael takes a more slower approach to black metal stylings. Although the music is sometimes painfully slow, nevertheless simple "evil" riffs describe the doomish aesthetic samael bring brilliance to this heavy effort.

This is the best work of Samael. Slow and heavy. Vocals from hell. I recommend this CD. END

Compared to today's Black Metal, Blood Ritual is somewhat primative. By that I mean the guitar sound is different. Although the sound is heavy, they don't have the same distortion sound as today's BM. The lyrics are dark, the rhythm is an overall evil presence, and Vorphalack on vocals does a good job bringing it all together. The songs, you have to picture a satanic ritual on stage as if it were a play, because it more of art and music blended together than just music about satan. I give this album 4 stars because it is a good Samael album, but not their best. I recommend Ceremony Of Opposites.

Samael is absolutely the best band out there. I choose to not label them as black or death metal. They are truly original METAL. Blood Ritual in my eyes is the best produced, yet still heavy and raw album they have put out to date. Truly Satanic lyrics, chainsaw-like guitars, rolling drums, melodic, beautiful, unrelenting HATE. This album is a MUST HAVE for all Satanic metal fans everywhere.

the only black metal band that compares to samael is beherit

these are the hymns of anton lavey t he second coming

of real music

behold!

recommended to 'old school' black mettalers that like it evil- for a better version (and slower) of this metal approach find a Murder Rape album.

Not black metal, not really anything. Most of this album is like 80s Metallica played at half speed. There doesn't seem to be anything purposeful about the musical approach/style, it's just really amateurish. The vocals and occasional keyboard parts are the only things that show any trace of talent or make this album seem remotely comparable to the likes of Mayhem, Burzum, Darkthrone, Satyricon, or Bathory. The metal guitar, drumming, and production is more like a high school garage band. I can't comprehend how this album was made by the same band that made Passage.