Box Set (Samhain album)

Samhain Box Set
Box set by Samhain
Released 5 September 2000
Recorded 1983-1990
Genre Deathrock, horror punk, heavy metal, gothic metal, post-punk
Label Evilive Records/E-Magine Music
Producer Glenn Danzig
Samhain chronology
Final Descent
(1990)
Samhain Box Set
(2000)
Samhain Live '85-'86
(2001)
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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.

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.

Track listing

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)

November-Coming-Fire
  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)

  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

  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"

Notes

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