Talk:Samhain (band)

neutrality?
this article appears to contain some personal bias and opinion rather than fact. eg- "Samhain released two full-lengths and one EP during their career. Some criticized their first album for being merely "the Misfits slowed down," despite Samhain's superior musicianship. The fact that Samhain re-recorded a few Misfits songs cemented the idea in some people's minds that Danzig couldn't move past his work with the Misfits. However, as their career progressed, they evolved into their own unique style of lo-fi goth metal and gained a cult following that surpassed that of The Misfits."

3rd paragraph.

Statements made in this paragraph are founded on opinion rather than fact.
 * I don't know about the statements about them having a cult following larger than the Misfits (you see a lot more fans of the Misfits than Samhain fans), or if it's NPOV to say they were better, but it's a well-known fact that they did get a lot of bad press when they first came out for supposedly being "the Misfits slowed down." Inanechild 23:11, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

- Currently, there is little question that The Misfits have a much, much larger cult following than Samhain. However, during the peak of Samhain's career, they had assembled a much larger fallowing than The Misfits had at that point in time. It was shortly after Samhain had evolved into Danzig that The Misfits became so immensely popular. So perhaps the statement should be rephrased.

I agree The Misfits hold a way larger following that Samhain

Covered in Blood
I'm removing this because I remember editing this page about a year ago as an anonymous user putting something about this in, when I just made it up off the top of my head (I had just found out about the site then). There is no proof to it, anyway. --Psycho78m 02:31, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

A lot of changes
I did a lot of error corrections and things, but I would really like someone else to go in and clean it up. --Psycho78m 07:29, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Leather Mask
Glenn Danzig's use of a Demonic S&M styled hood is documented well before the formation of Samhain. There is video footage of him wearing this mask while playing the song "Skulls" with the Misfits. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PefNnWJ6K8w69.251.156.16 01:46, 1 November 2006 (UTC)Octane818

MISFITS is now what they have to use for there band name...

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Pronunciation
I know the term is properly pronounced sow-in, but Glen refers to it as sam-hane several times like here:. The current explanation of this in the article makes it seem as if he named the band as if to be pronounced sow-in, but stupidly says his own band's name wrong repeatedly. If he has designated a pronunciation to the name of his band, that is how his band's name is pronounced, despite what is proper in other uses. A rewording might fix this. Penguinwithin (talk) 07:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

Coming in very late on this, but FWIW, he actually *does* pronounce the word correctly in the song of the same name, which would lend creedence to the idea that he really does have a "designated... pronunciation to the name of his band." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.44.111.226 (talk) 17:03, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

cd's no longer in print
can anyone tell me why (in the uk) at least its ridiculously hard to find samhain cds and when you do there extortionate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.23.126.200 (talk) 06:31, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Probably because they're out of print. rzrscm (talk) 12:33, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

Orphaned references in Samhain (band)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Samhain (band)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "AllMusic": From Danzig (album): http://allmusic.com/album/danzig-r5073 From Thornography:  From Samhain III: November-Coming-Fire:  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 09:37, 28 May 2018 (UTC)