Sabbat (Englische Band) – Wikipedia
| Sabbat | |
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 Andy Sneap and Simon “Jack Hammer” Jones (2008) |
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| General information | |
| Genre(s) | Thrash Metal |
| founding | 1985, 2006 |
| resolution | 1992, 2014 |
| Website | www.myspace.com |
| Founding members | |
| Martin Walkyier (until 1990, 2001, since 2006) | |
| Andy Snap (until 1992, since 2006) | |
| Phrases crash (until 1990, 2001, 2006–2007) | |
| Simon Negus (until 1992, since 2006) | |
| Last cast | |
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Life |
Martin Walkyier (until 1990, 2001, since 2006) |
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guitar |
Andy Snap (until 1992, since 2006) |
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guitar |
Simon Jones (1989, 2001, since 2006) |
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Drums |
Simon Negus (until 1992, since 2006) |
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Bass |
Gizz Butt (since 2007) |
| former members | |
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guitar |
Neil Watson (1989–1992) |
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Bass |
Wayne Banks (1990–1992) |
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Life |
Richie Desmond (1990–1992) |
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Guitar (live) |
Richard Scott (1988) |
Sabbat is a thrash metal band from Nottingham, England, which was founded in 1985 by the members of two friendly bands.
With the album published in 1988 History of a Time to Come and the album following one year later Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) , which is a concept album that is on the novel The Way of Wyrd Based by Brian Bates, Sabbath were able to establish themselves to the most important representatives of the British Thrash Metal and became an important part, only in the local scene, which many followers found and finally global. Characteristic of the band were the rough vocals and the pagan texts by Martin Walkyier, as well as a songwriting for progressive and at the same time powerful songs, which were almost exclusively written by Andy Sneap alone.
In contrast to other large thrash metal bands such as Metallica or Slayer, Sabbath was never successfully successful by the defective support of their then record label Noise Records and suffered from bad management that the band members almost briefly brought about from the shots to Dreamweaver.
With the musical development from Andy Sneap from catchy, fast classics towards longer and more melodic songs, there was a break between Martin Walkyier and the remaining members in 1990. While Walkyier then implemented his textual ideas in his newly founded band Skyclad (he took up ten studio albums with them by 2000), Sabbath quickly disappeared from the scene. The massive changes in the line -up with Richie Desmond as a new singer and a change of style towards Power Metal with irrelevant songwriting had a very negative impact on the development of the band. The follow -up album Mourning has Broken became a flop, as a result of which many trailers were completely different from the band. The band finally dissolved for internal differences in 1992.
After the dissolution of Sabbat, the other members were active in various projects and bands, but they were not all particularly successful. Andy sneap has become the best known outside of Sabbath as a producer for several bands.
After a reunion attempt by Martin Walkyier failed in 2001 and, due to the lack of financial success in 2006, he almost wanted to leave the music business with a demo publicization, he decided in December of the same year to revive the band for some concerts with the original members.
The beginnings [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
The band’s origins decreased until June of 1985 when singer Martin Walkyier and bassist Frazer Craske became the members of a band called Hydra. Andy Sneap joined Hydra as a second guitarist, but the remaining guitarist left the band two weeks later. The entry of the former striptease and falling Angel drummer Simon Negus (as a replacement for Mark Daley, who left the band at the same time as the second guitarist Adam Ferman) fell with a change of name: Hydra was called Sabbat.
„Let me shed a bit of light on things here. Martin and Frazer had this band called Hydra back in 84/85. The most impressive thing about the band was the fact that Frazer had already printed some 2 colour t shirts and he had a car! I met Frazer at a local Hell gig in Long Eaton and it turned out they were thinking of getting a second guitarist. I heard a tape (which I still have, it’s priceless) of a show they did in a pub in Nottingham and decided to have a jam as I was wanting to get some experience playing, after all I was the ripe old age of 15.
Two weeks after I joined, the original guitarist quit (i think this was on the cards) and the drummer left (thankfully) after we did our first demo a couple of months later, I think due to me having ago about his girlfriend being in the studio (you see, good work ethic back then!). It was Tim Bowler (the drummer from Hell) who introduced us to Simon Negus. The name Sabbat came from a book on witchcraft, but I actually found some old school books of mine with ideas doodled on them so I’m sure I had some doing in suggesting it, but I do remember we liked the way the word looked in the scrawly type of writing so we went with it. Yeah the flexi disc for white dwarf was an odd one, John Blanche, the art editor painted our first cover so it all came about quite easy, it does sound shockingly bad though.“
After the rehearsals that lasted almost a year, Sabbath published the Fragments-of-a-Faith-Forgotten -Demo that was very well received. The band received letters from several record companies and a double page in the Once !g! -Store.
„Martin and Frazer were really into Venom, I was really into Mercyful Fate and Slayer. I remember the day we recorded ‘Fragments…’, Frazer had that Venom, Exodus and Slayer video from New York and we decided that’s totally what we wanted to be doing.“
” We recorded “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” on a small four -track recorder, we played it down in just two afternoons. We didn’t think much about it, but then we got a deal with Noise, two sides in Kerrang! And a radio one session. It had an avalanche -like effect. After the session, the label was even more interested in us and after this we got the appearance on the cover from the Kerrang! ”
After the publication of a Flexi-disc inspired by Warhammer on the front cover of the White Dwarf Magazine, the band made a deal with the German Noise Records company in mid-1987 (the signing had previously been delayed because Andy Sneap was under 18 and Legally not an adult).
The climb [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In September 1987 the band traveled to Hanover, Germany, for their debut album History of a Time to Come to record. This time followed a lot of attention from the media among journalists and fans equally for his unique lyrical approach and the big difference to the image of the “Big 4” at the same time in the 1980 metal scene.
The second album Dreamweaver (Reflections of our Yesterdays) was a concept album based on the book of the Way of Wyrd, by Brian Bates. The album demonstrates the deeply rooted beliefs of Walkyier in Wyrdism, Anglo-saxon spirituality, mysticism and Celtic paganism.
Phrases crash:
” Well, we made the decision after our European tour [to bring a second guitarist into the band]. We had taken Richard Scott on tour with us for the additional sound and it went really well. But Richard said that he could not support us full time because he wanted to continue with his other band, but we had to get another guitarist to get an improvement in the sound. ”
The introduction of the new guitarist Simon “Jack Hammer” Jones made huge progress for the guitar faction. This was also confirmed by Andy Sneap in his interview with Renee Ackerman from RockworldtV in the backstage Recording Studio in 2007.
Jack, who had previously played in Holosade and halfway through the recordings of Dreamweaver as a rhythm and lead guitarist with snaps support, became a permanent band member, was professionally recognized before moving to Sabbath and is still active in the band.
Crisis and separation [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Tensions began to rise within the band, most of them revolved around the money. The band developed a very good follow -up and sold a lot of fan articles, but they were the victims of the bad management and the label (Noise), who apparently didn’t care what the band wanted.
Martin Walkyier:
” When we got the NOISE contract, people were not to say to us, ‘but we did it. Bands that were good at the time – Celtic Frost, Helloween, Creator – were all under contract with Noise. We had the complete artistic freedom, but not for the right reasons. It was because they were not interested in a cock. ”
The band almost dissolved in the Dreamweaver sessions, but grouped up to end the recordings and overcome and complete their differences. In retrospect, Andy Sneap notes in the last interviews that it is great that he and Martin Walkyier are able to work again within Sabbath without arguing about things, such as money, musical management and struggle of the personalities that they learned.
Martin Walkyier:
” There are stories that I stopped Sabbath because the rest of the band didn’t like my pagan texts. That is not true. We all have an interest in paganism together. Paganism was never a problem. No, the truth was that I could see that the music was getting more and more complex. Andy wrote musical epens for 11 minutes long and I couldn’t even see how I should write texts for something like that. I wanted to bring in other music styles, for example. That would never have worked with Sabbath. ”
Martin Walkyier commented at the end of 2006 that Sabbath was in great financial distress in 1989 and that he was dependent on government support. The financial situation with which the band was strongly confronted was explained. Walkyier commented that he felt that they sound more and more “like rush” due to the open technical way and duration of their songs – all in all, these things further heated up the tensions within the band.
Martin Walkyier:
” All the things that went wrong with Sabbath in the old days really had nothing to do with me and Andy Sneap, although we had our disagreements in the days when we were young. This had largely done with record companies and management and things that happened around us – the fact that we sold tons of loads from sound carriers and really did not see any money at all and were instead dependent on government support. ”
Guitarist Simon Jones was the first to jump from the ship during her 1989 UK Dreamweaver Tour with the British Thrashers Xentrix as a support band. He left the band just a few moments before the concert at the University of Sheffield Refectoration on November 15, 1989, Sabbath only ended the gig with Andy Sneap on the guitar. Andy Sneap explained that alcohol was involved in his exit, and Jones himself said that he regretted his departure in a video that could be seen on Andy Sneap’s MySpace page.
Guitarist Neil Watson was brought in for the guitar duties, he only needed two weeks to learn all the traces and is on the live video The End of the Beginning to see. Walkyier left the band together with Craske in 1990, Walkyier then founded the band Skyclad. Fraser Craske completely left the music industry at this time. Andy Sneap and Simon Negus reunited the band and brought singers Richie Desmond and bassist Wayne Banks into it. In 1991 they released their third album Mourning Has Broken – But it didn’t matter to fans or critics and the band played a final concert in Derby, only to dissolve soon afterwards.
In the terrorizer magazine [# 152 – XMAS 2006], Andy Sneap explained:
(Energetic): ” I don’t listen to this (Mourning Has Broken)! It has a lot of well-known guitar playing, many guitar shreddings there sound just ridiculous. It sounds together and should not bear the name Sabbath. ”
Simon Negus continued with the band The Glory Boys. Andy Sneap and Wayne Banks went to found the group. Andy Sneap is now best known as a successful producer, which was awarded a Grammy, who produced over 100 albums on his backstage Recording Studios in rural derbyshire.
Unofficial reunification [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Martin Walkyier originally wanted to reform the band as Sabbath in 2001 with Fraser Craske and Simon Jones. However, this was prevented by Andy Sneap at the time.
„The way I originally heard about [the reunion] was from one of the guys at Earache [Records], who called me up to ask me about it. I knew nothing about it so I called Martin to ask him about it. The conversation got a little heated and I explained they couldn’t do it under the name SABBAT as both he and [bassist] Frazer quit, leaving me and [drummer] Simon [Negus]with a lot of debts and financial problems to clear up. This was the reason we carried on as SABBAT and did a third album. Obviously we wanted the new line up to work out but it didn’t…simple as that. What it came down to though was Simon Negus and myself, in theory, own the business and name as they left. If you left your employee, you couldn’t go and start that business somewhere else under the same name.“
Walkyier, Jones and Craske played under the name Return to the Sabbat from 2001 to 2003, Skyclad drummer Jay Graham sat on the drums. After Simon Jones left the band (and was replaced by Andy Newby), the band continued their program for a while at the Bloodstock Indoor Festival and a gig in Camden, London. Then Return to the Sabbath dissolved.
Official reunification [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
In 2006 the band reformed again in the Dreamweaver -To and appeared at four different venues in the pre -program of Cradle of Filth on a tour by Great Britain in December 2006.
In the run -up to this short tour, the band performed on Saturday, December 16, 2006 at The Rig in Nottingham. It was the first time since 1989 that the Dreamweaver -Dasting played together live. Sabbath received a lot of attention in the press and enthusiastic critics for their support and confirmed that their first two albums in a remaster format are brought back onto the market with additional bonus material.
They then played the festival appearances at the Keep-IT True Festival in Germany, which took place on April 15, 2007 and at the Day of Darkness Festival in Co. Laois, Ireland, which on July 6th and 7th of the same year took place.
Andy Sneap and Martin Walkyier said in interviews that reunification took place to ” to have a little fun “And that there are no long -term planning.
On February 27, 2007 History of a Time to Come and Dreamweaver In new packaging, with live bonus titles and re-released. The last Sabbath album, Mourning Has Broken , was not re -published.
Album [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
Singles [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- 1987: Blood for the Blood God (Flexi-Disc im White Dwarf #95; Games Workshop)
- 1988: A Cautionary Tale/And the Brave Man Fails (Split flexi single with Vendetta; Noise Records in cooperation with Metal Forces and Rock Hard )
- 1989: Wildfire/The Best of Enemies (Wintrup Songs Ltd)
Sampler contributions [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- 1990: Hosanna in the highest , I for an Eye and For Those Who Died on Doomsday News III – Thrashing East Live (Live-Kompilation; Noise Records, SPV GmbH)
Demos [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- 1985: Magic in Practice and Theory
- 1987: Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
- 1987: Stranger than Fiction
VHS-Video [ Edit | Edit the source text ]
- 1990: The End of the Beginning (Photodic video)
- ↑ a b Andy Snap Interview for WickedWorldRecords.com ( Memento from February 21, 2015 in Internet Archive ).
- ↑ Former SABBAT Guitarist Speaks Out On Revamped Group ( Memento from September 25, 2005 in Internet Archive ).
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