Dutch horde Sammath was formed about two decades ago by Jan Kruitwagen. After a couple of demonstrational cassettes, Sammath joined forces with Folter Records, which did release four full lengths. I do appreciate every single one of them for its primitivism and nihilism, the underground attitude and the anti-trendy approach.
Godless Arrogance is the band’s first result from the collaboration with The Netherlands-based label Hammerheart Records, but it did not influence the fabulous style Sammath once created. The album was mastered, by the way, by Peter Neuber (think: Thornspawn, Revenge, The Ruins Of Beverast, Horna, Sodom, Seth etc.), and it brings thirty seven minutes of raw, blaspheme, fierce, raging, grim, icy, misty, vicious and ferocious Black War Metal with a vibe in the vein of the nineties.
Once again, one cannot speak about originality, but once again too, the average quality of both song writing and performance isn’t but a wet dream for the thrash-headed Black Sonic purists amongst us. Besides lots of pyroclastic and lightning-speed assaults, there are some decelerations, bringing a nice counterpart to the complexity of the essence. And another remark is the symbiosis in between basic and traditional up-tempo Black melodies and some timeless, more technical structures in between.