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dablink|This article is about a heavy metal band. For other uses, see Samael (disambiguation) .Infobox musical artist | name = Samael| image =| caption =| image_size = | background = group_or_band| origin = Sion, Switzerland | genre = Industrial metal Black metal Symphonic metal Industrial black metal Electronic music | years_active = 1987–present| label = Osmose Productions Century Media Nuclear Blast Galactical Records | associated_acts = Alastis | website = http://www.samael.info www.samael.info| current_members = Michael Locher|Vorph (Vorphalack) Makro Mas (Masmiseim) Xy (Xytras/Xytraguptor) | past_members = Rodolphe H Kaos Pat Charvet Samael is a industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland .
Biography
Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal , they are an early Black metal#Second wave|2nd Wave black metal band and an innovator for post-black metal styles.
Samael released Their first album Worship Him in 1991 on France|French record label Osmose Productions the following year they sign a multi records deal with Century Media Records and release their second album Blood Ritual
Early 1994 their 3rd album Ceremony of Opposites is on the market. Their music is now oriented toward industrial-sounds with addition of keyboards and use of samples.
Their album Passage (Samael album)|Passage (1996) saw them gather a larger audience, with the music video for the song "Jupiterian Vibe" getting airplay on MTV 's Headbanger's Ball . A second edition was later released with a bonus disk, done solely by keyboardist Xy and titled "Xytras," containing 10 entirely instrumental remixes featuring classical piano.
After the release of Eternal (Samael album)|Eternal - recorded and mixed in Mountain studio by David Richard (1999), Samael would not renew their contract with Century Media .
In 2004, Reign of Light (album)|Reign of Light was released through the band's own imprint Galactical Records . Two single will be taken from that album "Telepath" - from which a video clip was shot and "On Earth" - including a cover from Depeche Mode's "I Feel You".
In 2006, the electronica project Era One (album)|Era One (featuring Vorph and Xy) was released on Century Media Records. It includes a bonus disc, "Lesson in Magic #1," which again is entirely instrumental and done by keyboardist Xy. The album itself was recorded in 2001, and the bonus disc a year later. Both were rearranged and remixed in 2005.
In June 2007 they released the album Solar Soul (album)|Solar Soul , with songs as "Solar Soul", "Slavocracy" or "AVE!" it summed up and combined many of the styles of their previous albums since Passage . http://www.last.fm/music/Samael/+wiki Last.fm
On March 6, 2009, Samael released Above (Samael album)|Above , a full-length album described as a tribute to Samael's roots.
In June 2010 Samael began recording demos for the next album. http://headbanger.ru/news/7281? lng=en SAMAEL Recording Demos For Next Album The album's first single, titled Antigod was released on November 19, 2010. http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm? newsid=60403 Metalunderground.com The album, titled Lux Mundi (Samael album)|Lux Mundi (which translates as "Light of the World"), was released April 29, 2011 in Europe and May 3, 2011 in North America. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=154984 Roadrunnerrecords.com The same month they shot a video clip for the song "Luxferre" in Sweden with director Patric Ulaeus.
Line-up
Vorphalack (Vorph) - Vocals, Guitar (since 1987)
Xytras/Xytraguptor (Xy) - Live and Programmed Drums, Keyboards, Samples (since 1988)
In earlier original album credits Xy was to as "Xytras," not "Xytraguptor." On the band's official about page, they give mixed references using all 3 monikers, Xy, Xytras, and Xytraguptor. http://www.samael.info/Above/index.html
Era One (album)|Era One (2006) (project featuring Vorph and Xy)
Aeonics& nbsp;— An Anthology (Compilation, 2007)
Valkyries New Ride (Single, 2007)
Illumination (Single, 2009)
Xytras released a neo-classical metal|neo-classical remix of Passage and Exodus in 1998 in music|1998 . It was distributed as a bonus disc on the american edition of Passage (Samael album)|Passage .
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