Samhain

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Samhain was a deathrock/horror punk band formed by Glenn Danzig in 1983 as The Misfits were in major turmoil and close to disbanding. Danzig originally planned Samhain as a side project, but after the demise of The Misfits in October of 1983, it became his full-time band. Samhain is the lesser known of Glenn Danzig’s musical outlets, and catalogs the transitional period of his musical career, bridging the gap between the punk thrashing of The Misfits, and the dark, heavy metal sound of Danzig.

Glenn took the name of the band from Samhain, the ancient Celtic New Year, which influenced the modern Halloween. Samhain is pronounced “sow-win” (which is the pronunciation that Glenn uses in songs), although the band name is often pronounced “Sam-Hane” for the sake of simplicity.

Samhain was much darker than The Misfits, with lyrics rooted in the horrors of reality and the occult, as opposed to the sometimes cartoonish ghouls and ghosts of The Misfits. Samhain’s musical style was a dark, gritty, and experimental combination of punk, gothic rock, and on the last album, heavy metal.

Samhain released two full-length albums and one EP during their three year career as an active band. Some criticized their first album for being merely the Misfits slowed down, but Samhain demonstrated noticeably superior musicianship. The fact that Samhain re-recorded a few Misfits songs cemented the idea in some peoples’ minds that Danzig couldn’t move past his work with the Misfits.

1	Archangel	116
2	All Murder, All Guts, All Fun	111
3	Black Dream	108
4	To Walk the Night	105
5	In My Grip	99
6	Let the Day Begin	95
7	Diabolos '88	93
8	Horror Biz	91
9	Halloween II	84
9	Mother of Mercy	84
11	The Shift	80
12	Macabre	79
13	Human Pony Girl	76
14	The Howl	73
15	Birthright	70

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Count_Blah wrote:
yesterday morning

this band is definitely emo, whats the problem?

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esclavodelgrind wrote:
Thursday evening

surely a gay group

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t0talimm0rtalz wrote:
Wednesday evening

who gives a fuck about maturity?

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arrell wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

That's very mature, t0talimm0rtalz.

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Plarg wrote:
Sunday evening

Misfits rule...Samhain's pretty good...Danzig's alright.

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t0talimm0rtalz wrote:
last month

kill anyone who incorporates any part of this with emo

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Lieberdog wrote:
last month

Agree!

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t0talimm0rtalz wrote:
last month

hahaha, son of sam is awesome. if you dont like them you might as well say fuck the misfits fuck samhain and fuck every other awesome band danzig associates with

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xHATE-EDGEx wrote:
last month

All hell breaks loose = epic win.

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kevin4455 wrote:
last month

son of sam sucks

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t0talimm0rtalz wrote:
last month

has anyone heard Son of Sam? If you can locate the album link me, cuz i think the Samhain/AFI collaboration is the shit.

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t0talimm0rtalz wrote:
last month

haha fucking idiots. devilocks are not emo hair, "emo hair" isn't even emo hair. Emo doesn't have a hair style. Those "emo" kids have modern day glam style

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hexcrasher wrote:
last month

Defiant Brood.

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rkfs wrote:
July 2008

Tagged as "Hey look these guys invented Emo hair"

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Emannikcufesin wrote:
July 2008

November Coming Fire is one the greatest albums ever written.

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KingHeff wrote:
July 2008

unholy passion FTW

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PerceptorPrime wrote:
June 2008

For those that don't know the roots of the bands name, here's Dictionary.com's definition and pronuncation since I could pronounce Scott like scoat but really it's not the same. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/samhain

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MaMaDx wrote:
June 2008

Hm-m-m New Samheim (Electro/Industrial/Ambient) - http://www.discogs.com/release/843991 Hope there are some fans of it here.

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[deleted-user] wrote:
June 2008

too late, i'm here
Samzig wrote:
May 2008

"IM GLAD STUPID FUCKING EMO KIDS DON'T KNOW ABOUT THEM AND DONT RUIN THE BAND WITH THERE STUPID FUCKING CLOTHES." -damn right!! :D

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