''Solar Soul'' is the seventh album by the Swiss
heavy metal band
Samael
Samael (; , ''Sammāʾēl'', "Venom of God"; , ''Samsama'il'' or , ''Samail''; alternatively Smal, Smil, Samil, or Samiel) is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic tradition; a figure who is the accuser or adversary (Satan#Judaism, Satan ...
, released on 1 June 2007 through
Nuclear Blast
Nuclear Blast Records is a German record label with subsidiary, subsidiaries located in Germany, the United States and Brazil. It was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Donzdorf. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on ...
.
Track listing
Personnel
Samael
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Vorph
Michael Locher (born 7 January 1969), also known as Vorphalack or simply Vorph, is a Swiss musician who provides vocals and is a guitarist for the industrial/black metal band Samael.
Biography
Locher was born in Sion. He co-founded Samael i ...
–
guitar
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,
vocals
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* Xy –
keyboard
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* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Mus ...
,
drums
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, programming, production
* Mas –
bass
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Wood
* Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree
Music
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* Makro – guitar
Additional musicians
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Sami Yli-Sirniö
Sami Yli-Sirniö (born 10 April 1972) is a Finnish musician who is currently the lead guitarist of the German band Kreator and the Finnish metal bands Waltari and Barren Earth. He spent part of his life in Germany and thus has strong ties with ...
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sitar
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(10)
*
Vibeke Stene
Vibeke Stene (born 17 August 1978) is a Norwegian soprano and actress. She is best known as a former member of the gothic metal band Tristania, which she joined in 1996 and appears with on five albums. as the band became "one of the world's pr ...
– vocals (7)
Technical personnel
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Waldemar Sorychta
Waldemar Sorychta (born 30 October 1967) is a Polish heavy metal record producer and musician who has lived in Germany since 1982.
Career
He initially worked with German thrash metal band Despair, founded in 1986.
In 1994 he took part in the ...
– production
* D-Teck – engineering
* Stéphane Loup – engineering
* Stefan Glaumann – mixing
* Tor Ingvarsson –
Pro Tools
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assistant
* Henrik Jonsson – mastering
* Patrick Pidoux – front cover, additional graphics
* Edi Maurer – portraits
* Petri de Pità – band picture
* Carsten Drescher – layouts
Charts
References
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2007 albums
Samael (band) albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Albums produced by Waldemar Sorychta