At a time when Swedish metal sought to emulate the American death model, other European strains remained true to the roots of Hellhammer’s originary legacy. Samael, also from Switzerland, delivered a crucial work in this lineage with Worship Him, one of several 1990 offerings which set the stage for black metal’s final eruption. Satanic in its thematic embrace of ancient evil, Worship Him also anticipates a coming pall of black doom in its slower passages, while recursive mega-riff onslaughts evoke blasphemous spectres of the atavistic night.