SAMAEL Frontman Confirms “Most Of The Recording” For The Band’s Next Studio Album Is In The Can

In a current dialog with Sam Acevedo of El Planeta Del Rock, Michael Locher, frontman of Swiss industrial steel band Samael – additionally identified by his stage title of Vorph –, offered insights into the band’s upcoming album.

Vorph mirrored on the artistic journey that led to their newest venture, notably how the band’s method has advanced over time. He emphasised that beginning with the 2007 album Photo voltaic Soul, Samael intentionally shifted focus to reconnect with their core musical identification.

 “We have tried, with 2007’s Photo voltaic Soul notably, to attempt to focus again on what we thought had been crucial issues within the band. As a result of on the 2 earlier albums, 1999’s Everlasting and 2004’s Reign Of Mild, we had been making an attempt to experiment to have a bigger spectrum within the band,” he defined. 

“And that is nice too. However sooner or later, we had been afraid to get misplaced in having songs so separate from each other. And we centered again consciously with Photo voltaic Soul and we stored this for 2011’s Lux Mundi. I feel with 2017’s Hegemony, we began to open it slightly bit extra once more — not an excessive amount of, however it’s form of making the ground, the bottom zero for the subsequent album, which is the one we’re engaged on now.”

Vorph revealed that the band has been laboring over the brand new album for an prolonged interval, with the writing course of already nicely underway earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic. The band labored intently with long-time producer Waldemar Sorychta, revisiting and reshaping the fabric a number of occasions throughout and after the pandemic: ” We had been really assembly each month to play collectively and to examine the songs collectively as a result of we had no exhibits, however we wished to maintain the synergy and to see one another was one thing necessary. And so throughout that point, we had lots of discussions about what we wished to do, and the way we wished the sound to be. After which, even after that, there may be perhaps a 3rd incarnation for a number of the songs. Xy‘s (drummer Alexandre ‘Xytras’ Locher) nonetheless doing lots of enhancing for the time being. A lot of the recording is completed. So we are going to combine this this fall if all the pieces goes nicely. And hopefully early subsequent yr we are able to not less than have one new track that we are able to current. Yeah, that is the thought.”

When requested in regards to the problem of choosing lyrical themes in a world that “appears to be sinking,” Vorph acknowledged that the album seemingly displays a number of the present world discontent: “However, as talked about, I suppose a lot of the lyrics, they had been written, like, three years in the past or one thing. After which, in fact, I corrected issues, I modified them, as a result of a number of the songs, they’ve modified.

“After which, impulsively, you modified the title of the track after which all the pieces went in one other path and I began to rewrite the lyrics. A few of it I stored. So, by way of all these modifications, I feel it is also form of a mirrored image of what we’re residing — after I say for the time being, it is going to be like three years in the past or now. Issues have not modified, actually, and perhaps not even for the most effective once they modified.”