The Beauty of Emptyness

Review Score: (10/10)
"Ceremony of Opposites" is Samael's crowning achievement. Mid-paced, loaded with killer - and discrete - keyboard arrangements, it blows off 99% of the competition, which are too enthralled on the "I-am-faster" stupidity. "Ceremony" also features the best lyrics of 2nd generation Black Metal. They steer away from the 3 main themes in this particular scene:

1) the "I-kiss-the-goat's-a**" theme;
2) the "I-am-a-clueless-modern-viking" theme;
3) or the "Coldbitten-Frost-of-Icy-Nebular-Winterstorm" theme.

The song "Crown", in particular, has one of the best lyrics I've seen in Rock music. I've rarely seen such anger, such emotional emptyness, such hatred towards life put on paper. If you want to appreciate the very essence of a thing called "evil", "Crown" is the best treatise I've read to this date.

Not many dare to the look into abysses of the human soul. There, you'll find the higher - and real - human nature.

Cold.
Lonely.
Indifferent.

Whether you're a Cabbalist - a Buddhist - a Sufi - a Hindu - or, in this case, a Satanist, your path is towards freedom... eventually, you'll have to dip your feet into this empty abyss... and find your true soul...

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