Furious Dutch black metal band Sammath have issued forth a live recording of “Godless” featuring founder/guitarist Jan Kruitwagen on vocals. The band takes a high-intensity old school approach to this track, emphasizing the multitude of death metal and black metal influences on this band, but with technical aptitude making the song flow together in the style of later black metal.

As the great boom in black metal of the indie-rock variety has faded, fans are rediscovering more of the older style bands who pursue a feral intensity with a spirit that could have come out of ancient Europe: an atavistic Wild West of vikings, raiders, tribal chieftains, knights, warriors, and an elitist bloodlust that seeks to eliminate all that is less than excellent. Sammath picks up this spirit and carries it forward in tightly-written songs that balance melody and rhythmic savagery.

Tags: Black Metal, bloodlust, heathenism, sammath