Description

2019 press. Double album on black vinyls with gatefold cover and 9 bonus tracks

From crude black metal to finessed industrial electronics, Samael’s long and at times arduous Passage along their career has left many fans upset and stranded by the roadside — as much due to the radical nature of that musical transformation, as the mixed quality of albums like 1999’s Eternal and 2004’s Reign of Light. Now, with their seventh long-player, 2007’s Solar Soul, the Swiss quartet appear to be striving to achieve some kind of historical balance by re-injecting the analog metal elements of early days efforts into their still largely digital aesthetic, and coming up with several, inventive and energetic offerings (‘Promised Land’, ‘Valkyries New Ride’ and the title track), that are in fact quite reminiscent of that masterpiece Passage.

Track list:
1. Solar Soul
2. Promised Land
3. Slavocracy
4. Western Ground
5. On The Rise
6. Alliance
7. Suspended Time
8. Valkyries New Ride
9. Ave
10. Quasar Waves
11. Architect
12. Olympus
13. Solar Soul-remix
14. Slavocracy-remix
15. Suspended Time-instrumental
16. Architect-instrumental
17. Quasar Waves-instrumental
18. Valkyries New Ride-instrumental
19. Western Ground-instrumental
20. Olympus-instrumental
21. Slavocracy-live