Style: Industrial metal
Primary Emotions/Themes: A true continuation of the style explored on Passage, industrial, powerful riffs, great keyboard work
Thoughts: Samael is one of the more interesting bands that started in the late 80's. With every album they changed their style significantly until they ended up with their fourth album: Passage. Here is where the band truly found what they wanted to do with their sound and made it the basis for essentially everything moving forward.
For many of those future releases the band would not even get close to the prowess of Passage, that was until Solar Soul released 11 years later. This album has the same level of drive, diversity and kick ass riffs that Passage has. Vorph sounds older, but the music sounds just as fresh as I would expect from the legacy that the band set.
The whole crux of the album is strong drum beats creating a backing with full and powerful riffs driving the music over it. The dynamic part comes in with the keyboards. These range from support instrumentations to the primary driver of the music. The whole affair is almost danceable in it's approach, it's got one hell of a groove.
Samael continues to evolve with every album, but Solar Soul is where they rediscovered their mid period roots and did a proper follow up. They would go on to go back to their extreme roots after this with varying degrees of success, but Solar Soul remains one of my favorites of the band.
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