SAMAEL Return To Black Metal Roots With Above, Release Date Confirmed; New Live Dates Announced

December 12, 2008, 15 years ago

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Nuclear Blast Records has confirmed March 6th, 2009, as the official release date for Above, the new release from Swiss metallers SAMAEL.

With the release, Samael are returning to their black metal roots. Frontman Vorph states, "?Above? is a metal album through and through. Some might say the missing link between ?Ceremony Of Opposites? And ?Passage?."

Above is the band's follow-up to their 2007 release Solar Soul.

In January/February, Samael will go on a two treks tour across Europe. The first one with DEICIDE, VADER, DEVIAN and supports; the second one with KEEP OF KALESSIN and NOCTIFERIA.

Here is where and when winter will be the hottest this year:

First trek:

January

8 - 013 - Tilburg, Holland
9 - Patronaat - Haarlem, Holland
10 - Biebob - Vosselar, Belgium
11 - La Locomotive - Paris, France
12 - CCO Villeurbanne - Lyon, France
13 - Rockhal - Esch/Alzette, Luxemburg
14 - Ika-Longhorn - Stuttgart, Germany
15 - Batschkapp - Frankfurt, Germany
16 - Matrix - Bochum, Germany
17 - Transilvania Live - Erstfeld, Switzerland
18 - Rolling Stone - Milan, Italy
19 - Komma - Worgl, Austria
20 - DK Dubravka - Bratislava, Slovakia
21 - Mega Club - Katowice, Poland
22 - Progresja - Warsaw, Poland

Second trek:

January

24 - Dekompresja - Lodz, Poland
25 - Loch Ness - Krakow, Poland
26 - Diesel - Budapest, Hungary
27 - Irish & Music - Cluj Napoca, Romania
28 - Becker Brau - Bucarest, Romania
29 - Sport Hall Izgrev - Burgas, Bulgaria
30 - Studio Live - Istanbul, Turkey
31 - Blue Box - Sofia, Bulgaria

February

1 - Mylos - Thessaloniki, Greece
2 - Texas Necropolis - Athens, Greece
4 - SKC - Belgrade, Serbia
5 - Boogaloo - Zagreb, Croatia
6 - Mostovna - Nova Gorica, Slovenia
7 - Siddharta - Prato n/Firenze, Italy

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