Black Seal

by Root

Black Seal cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 November 2001
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: Czechia
  • Length: 1:13:41
  • Community rating: 3.63/5 from 1 rating

Artists on this release: Seth Haymon, Fernando Ribeiro, Pavel Hlavica, Petr Holub谩艡, Redblack, David 沤idlick媒, Stanislav Val谩拧ek, Ivo 膶ernohorsk媒, Blackie, Igor Hub铆k, Evil, Ashok, Big Boss

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Root's 'Black Seal' continues the Brno band's idiosyncratic heavy metal, Big Boss's theatrical vocals over epic, occult-themed arrangements that predate much of the Czech metal scene. Root, formed in 1987, were pioneers of metal in Czechoslovakia.

Genres

Descriptors: complex, occult, melodic, harsh-vocals, riff-heavy

Tracklist

  1. The Festival Of Destruction (4:57)
  2. The Incantation Of Thessalonian Women (5:12)
  3. Nativity (4:18)
  4. His Eyes Were Dark (4:22)
  5. Black Seal (4:15)
  6. The Faith (2:12)
  7. Salamandra (7:26)
  8. Necromancy (4:57)
  9. Theriak (5:31)
  10. The Mirror Of Soul (7:14)
  11. Liber Prohibitus (3:41)
  12. ...Before I Leave! (19:36)

Credits

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