promo cassette 1995

1: Visions of Winterlands
2: Zwaardbroeders bij de Bergengte

demo cassette 1996

1: Visions upon Winter Lands
2: Darkest Witchcraft (of Axes and Swords)
3: Zwaardbroeders bij de Bergengte
4. Death of a God

promo cassette 1997

1: Anfauglier, the Wolf of Carcharoth (Thus the Great Shadows Return)
2: In het Teken van het Zevende Zwaard
3: De Zwarte Bergen
4: Gevangenen der Duistere Schoonheid
5: De Ruïnes Fluisteren
6: Als de Hordes Voortgaan
7: De Verbanning
8: Vervloekt Zijt Christus

cd 1999 / lp 2002
label: Folter Records / Macabre Operetta

1: De Glorie van het Slagveld
2: Zwaardbroeders bij de Bergengte
3: Strijd
4: Drakenbloed
5: De Heidense Vlam Zal Branden
6: Als Duisternis de Kasteeltorens Bedekt
7: Met de Strijdbijl in Mijn Hand

cd 2002
label: Folter Records
genre: Satanic death metal

1: Satan Infinity
2: Devastation
3: The Timeless Splendour of Chaos
4: Enter the Sadistic Nightmare
5: Fertile Life End
6: Where Is Your God
7: Die Again
8: Verwoesting
9. Tormentor

cd 2006
label: Folter Records

1: To Hell
2: Ravager
3: Dodengang
4: Ashes to Ashes
5: Imminence, War & Death
6: Stalingrad
7: Oblivion
8: Merciless

cd 2009
label: Folter Records

1: Triumph in Hatred
2: Blood
3: Burn in the Fires of Hell
4: Interlude / Prelude to War
5: Blazing Storm of Steel
6: Damnation
7: Torment

Sammath is a band I kind-of lost years ago after the release of their Strijd album, which I felt was their strongest up to date. But now they strike again with Triumph in Hatred on the German label Folter Records. On it the band has left behind a lot of the obvious death metal influences, that I felt were too prominent on their previous releases Verwoesting and Dodengang (although I will probably have to listen to them again in retrospect, having heard this album). Somehow Triumph in Hatred reminds me of a well produced cross between Immortal's Battles in the North and Blizzard Beasts, but with a more up-to-date approach in musicianship and quality riffing. (That Immortal-mixture is very fine with me, by the way; they were the last defining albums of an Immortal now gone to ruins). With its great artwork, that feels oddly nostagic, it is good to say that I have once again been pulled back to Sammath's aggressive sonic warfare.

REVIEWED NOVEMBER 2009.