Passage

Passage – As Darkness Comes Review

Passage – As Darkness Comes Review

By Steel Druhm on June 28, 2017 in 2017, Canadian Metal, Doom Metal, Exorcize Music, Reviews, Doom Metal, 13 comments

“Passage is likely not a name familiar to many outside of their native Montreal, Canada. Their self-titled debut was released in 2005 and they failed to follow it up in any way until now. Talk about a momentum killer, eh? Dubious marketing choices aside, the band traffics in melancholy doom death and they take many pages from the dog-eared tomes of Paradise Lost, Saturnus and My Dying Bride as they seek to crush your spirit under weighty riffs and heart-wrenching melodies.” Hello, darkness my olde friend.

Yer Metal is Olde: Samael – Passage

Yer Metal is Olde: Samael – Passage

By Grymm on June 5, 2016 in Black Metal, Century Media, Industrial Metal, Swiss Metal, Yer Metal Is Olde, 39 comments

“1996 was a weird time for metal. That year many bands decided to abruptly switch logos on us, and whenever that happens, usually the music gets a lot more “creative” (i.e. tame) and a whole lot less metal. I remember seeing an ad for Samael’s Passage in an issue of Metal Maniacs and immediately got worried. Gone was the pentagram-infused logo and the Eric Vuille painting of Jesus with his crown of nails coming out of his head, and in their place was a logo that was fresh off of Microsoft Word and a picture of what appears to be the moon.” A bad moon was arising.

Samael – Lux Mundi Review

Samael – Lux Mundi Review

By Angry Metal Guy on April 21, 2011 in 2011, 4.0, Black Metal, Nuclear Blast, Black Metal, 2 comments

OK, I have a secret to tell you right up front. I haven’t listened to Samael with any regularity since the late 1990s when I first started getting into black metal. I had a love affair with Ceremony of Opposites and was actually a bit disappointed when someone played me Passage. However, over the years Passage is the one that I have come back more frequently to, despite (or because of) its industrial bent. I wasn’t a huge fan of Above when it was released, though I must have just been cranky because it’s a fucking killer record, but I’ve always been waiting for the follow-up to Passage that never came. And I gather that I am not alone in feeling that way.