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Released
  
5 September 2000

Artist
  
Samhain

Producer
  
Glenn Danzig

Recorded
  
1983-1990

Release date
  
5 September 2000

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Label
  
Evilive Records/E-Magine Music

Samhain Box Set (2000)
  
Samhain Live '85-'86 (2001)

Genres
  
Heavy metal, Horror punk, Deathrock, Gothic metal, Post-punk

Similar
  
Samhain albums, Horror punk albums, Other albums

The Samhain Box Set was released in 2000, more than 13 years after Samhain effectively ceased recording and performing. The set's five CDs and one VHS tape compile nearly all of the band's original catalogue, newly remastered for the original mastertapes, and a wealth of previously unreleased material, the latter of which includes a live CD and a VHS video cassette of live footage.

Contents

Of Samhain's previous official releases, only the original mix of the Unholy Passion EP was not included in the Box Set; conjecture is that the original master tapes had been lost over the years, or were erased when Danzig re-recorded the guitar and some vocal tracks to those songs in June 1987.

Special packaging

The Box Set initially retailed at around $60.00 USD, and is now out of print. If pre-ordered online through distributor E-Magine Music's website, the first pressing of the Box Set was shipped two weeks prior to the street date, and was packaged with a bonus metal pin of the "scarecrow beast" character that appeared on Samhain T-shirts in the 1980s (similar to the one on the cover of the November-Coming-Fire album). In all pressings, each of the five CDs came in its own "mini-LP" sleeve within the box, but when they were re-released individually the following year, these sleeves were replaced with normal CD jewel-cases.

Also included in the Box Set was a comic book by Mr. Monster creator Michael T. Gilbert (with four uncredited pages by Sean Wyett, who also illustrated Danzig for the back cover of the Misfits' Legacy of Brutality), and a 32-page booklet of photographs and reprinted lyrics to Discs One and Three. The outer box cover was painted by Martin Emond, who had done artwork for several other products from singer Glenn Danzig's post-Samhain band, Danzig.

Initium (Disc One)

  1. "Initium" / "Samhain"
  2. "Black Dream"
  3. "All Murder, All Guts, All Fun"
  4. "Macabre"
  5. "He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named"
  6. "Horror Biz"
  7. "The Shift"
  8. "The Howl"
  9. "Archangel"

Unholy Passion (Disc Two)

  1. "Unholy Passion"
  2. "All Hell"
  3. "Moribund"
  4. "The Hungry End"
  5. "Misery Tomb"
  6. "I Am Misery"

Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire (Disc Three)

  1. "Diabolos '88"
  2. "In My Grip"
  3. "Mother of Mercy"
  4. "Birthright"
  5. "To Walk the Night"
  6. "Let the Day Begin"
  7. "Halloween II"
  8. "November's Fire"
  9. "Kiss of Steel"
  10. "Unbridled"
  11. "Human Pony Girl"

Final Descent (Disc Four)

  1. "Night Chill"
  2. "Descent"
  3. "Death...In Its Arms"
  4. "Lords of the Left Hand"
  5. "The Birthing"
  6. "Twist of Cain"
  7. "Possession"
  8. "Trouble"
  9. "Lords of the Left Hand: 2nd Version"

Samhain Live '85-'86 (Disc Five)

  • Tracks 1-10: Live 19 February 1985 at Danceteria, New York, NY.
  • Tracks 11-18: Live 13 April 1986 at the Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL
    1. "All Hell"
    2. "Samhain"
    3. "The Shift"
    4. "The Howl"
    5. "Unholy Passion"
    6. "All Murder, All Guts, All Fun"
    7. "I Am Misery"
    8. "The Hungry End"
    9. "Horror Biz"
    10. "He-Who-Can-Not-Be-Named"
    11. "Black Dream"
    12. "Death Comes Ripping"
    13. "Mother of Mercy"
    14. "To Walk the Night"
    15. "Halloween II"
    16. "In My Grip"
    17. "London Dungeon"
    18. "Archangel"

    Live VHS

  • Tracks 1-8 recorded 13 April 1985 at Typographer's Hall, Baltimore, MD.
  • Tracks 9-13 recorded 13 April 1986 at The Cabaret Metro, Chicago, IL.
  • Tracks 14-16 recorded 14 July 1986 at The Ritz, New York, NY.
    1. "All Murder, All Guts, All Fun"
    2. "The Shift"
    3. "Unholy Passion"
    4. "Black Dream"
    5. "The Hungry End"
    6. "I Am Misery"
    7. "Horror Biz"
    8. "Moribund"
    9. "All Hell"
    10. "London Dungeon"
    11. "Archangel"
    12. "Mother of Mercy"
    13. "To Walk the Night"
    14. "Samhain"
    15. "Moribund"
    16. "Black Dream"

    References

    Box Set (Samhain album) Wikipedia
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