This is one of the opening themes for The Asterisk War anime. I don’t read/write Japanese to get the band name.
Category: Metal Tuesday
Metal Tuesday – Brother’s Choice – Samael/Xytras – Passage
Derek Note – Since it’s The Brother’s birthday week, I let him choose the music.
This year I bring you not one song, not two songs, but two full albums… kinda.
Samael is a band that has changed a lot over the years. They started as straight-up black metal before moving into a more electronic/industrial metal.
The mid-point between these two styles was 1996’s Passage – one of my favorite albums and an amazing work:
In 1997, Xy (Samael’s keyboards/drum machine artist) did a side project called Xytras where he redid the entire Passage album as piano and syths. It is a wonderful conversion and well worth a listen even if you do not care for the heaviness of Passage.