Located in Basel, Switzerland, Schammasch was formed in 2009. ('Schammasch' being ama, the sun god from Akkadian / Babylonian mythology.)
With little attention to the question of genre from their inception, the band regarded their actual body of work as what is most artistically significant; although their roots can be found in forward-thinking black metal whilst balancing a razor sharp hybrid of dark atmospherics, doom and Hermetic mysticism.
After a year of carefully crafting their art, Schammasch released their first album Sic Lvceat Lvx on an underground Swiss Black Metal label and unveiled their live show alongside international extreme metal acts like Jex Thoth, Temple of Baal, Vorkreist, Evoken and Forgotten Tomb.
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