Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 11 - I Am Misery.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 10 - Misery Tomb.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 09 - The Hungry End.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 08 - Moribund.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 07 - All Hell.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 06 - Unholy Passion.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 05 - The Birthing.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 04 - Lords Of The Left Hand.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 03 - Death. Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 02 - Descent.mp3 Sam Hain - Final Descent/Samhain - Final Descent - 01 - Night Chill.mp3 However, as their career progressed, they evolved into their own unique style of lo-fi gothic-doom and gained a cult following that surpassed the modest fanbase The Misfits had while they were active.Īs a footnote, Danzig has said that he wrote the songs "Bloodfeast" and "Death Comes Ripping" with the intention of using them on the first Samhain album, but instead recorded them with the Misfits for the Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood album in order to round out that band's final series of recordings and release a full album. Some criticized their first album for being merely the Misfits slowed down, but Samhain demonstrated noticeably superior musicianship. Samhain released two full-length albums and one EP during their three year career as an active band. Samhain's musical style was a dark, gritty, and experimental combination of punk, gothic rock, and on the last album, heavy metal. Samhain was much darker than the Misfits, with lyrics rooted in the occult and eventually the horrors of reality, as opposed to the sometimes cartoonish ghouls and ghosts of the Misfits. Both Samhain and its successor Danzig use the same horned skull image originally drawn by artist Michael Golden for the cover of the 1984 comic book Crystar, Crystal Warrior #8, published by Marvel Comics). The band's name is pronounced "sow-win", although the name is often incorrectly pronounced as "Sam-Hane" (Danzig himself introduces the song "Samhain" on Samhain Live 85-86 by saying "gonna try to wake things up a little. Samhain is the least-celebrated of Danzig's major musical outlets and catalogs a transitional period in his musical career, bridging the gap between the punk rock of the Misfits and the dark, heavy metal and blues-influenced sound of Danzig.ĭanzig took the name of the band from Samhain, the ancient Celtic New Year, which influenced the modern Halloween. Danzig originally planned Samhain as a side project, but after his earlier group, The Misfits, messily dissolved, it became his full-time band.
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