Samael is a Swiss
industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland. Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as
industrial metal, Samael was originally founded as an early 2nd Wave
black metal band. Their first demos presented a slow, doomy style of
thrash metal with raw vocals, similar to that of Celtic Frost. Some of the songs would be included on
Worship Him (1991) and
Blood Ritual (1992). Around the time of
Ceremony of Opposites (1994), the band started using industrial-styled so…
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