A re-issue of Samael's first two albums "Worship Him" and "Blood Ritual" recorded in 1990 and 1992 respectively. Yeah I know, it's on Century Media, but that way you can save money by getting this double CD instead of buying each of these recordings individually. These albums are light years away from what Samael are pushing now. Instead of the electronic/industrial fetish they promote nowadays, early Samael produced some classic black metal, different from today's standard. Doomy, slow-motioned with just a few fast parts, plainly structured music that takes inspiration from the legendary proto-black metal gods Bathory and Celtic Frost, but there is this primeval darkness and evil emanating from it. Today, it all sounds very outdated and unsophisticated, but I just love it. Hear how it used to be done when black metal was in its infancy, and shed a tear for the long-gone times when it was still fresh and underground.

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