Sabbath (Japanese band)

Sabbath
Sabbath live in Brooklyn 2005
General information
Genre (s)	Thrash metal , black metal
founding	1983 as Evil
Website	isten.net/sabbat/
Founding members
Bass , vocals	Gezol
guitar	Elizaveat (until 1991)
guitar	Ozny (until 1986)
Drums	Valvin (until 1985)
singing	Toshiya (until 1984)
Current occupation
Vocals, bass	Gezol
Vocals, drums	Zorugelion (since 1990)
guitar	Ishidamia (since 2005)
former members
Drums	Shige (1985)
Drums	Samm aka Gero (1985–1990)
singing	Possessed Hammer (1989)
guitar	Barraveat (1989)
guitar	Temis Osmond (1991-2005)

Sabbat is a Japanese thrash / black metal group.

history

The band was founded in 1983 under the name Evil. The first line-up consisted of Gezol (bass), Ozny (guitar), Elizaveat (guitar), Valvin (drums) and singer Toshiya. Before that, all members except Ozny had played together in bands like Aburamushi, Hot Rod and Black Beast from 1981 and mainly covered NWoBHM bands like Iron Maiden and Demon . The first of these bands was Aburamushi, in which Elizaveat and Gezol covered material from the punk band Anarchy with some of their classmates . With Evil their own material was written and recorded, in August 1983 the band performed live for the first time.

In 1984 Toshiya left the band and Gezol decided to take over the vocals in addition to the bass. In the summer of 1984 the band was renamed Sabbat and in the fall the band performed in and around their hometown of Kuwana .

The first self-titled single was released in 1985 , limited to 300 copies. Gezol's brother Samm replaced Valvin. In 1986 the band spent performing in Japan, an appearance at Under the Castle was shown on Japanese television. Less than two weeks later there was a first crisis within the band. Sabbat had been booked for two consecutive appearances in Tokyo , but guitarist Ozny beat up a fan on the first night who had given him the finger . The performance the next evening took place without Ozny, two weeks later Sabbat performed for the last time with Ozny, then separated from him and continued as a trio.

In 1987 the second single Born by Evil Blood was released . After a family death, the brothers Gezol and Samm decided not to play live anymore; a farewell concert took place on September 13, 1987 in Nagoya in front of 43 visitors. In October, however, the band went back to the studio and released the single Desecration in early 1988 and the fourth single The Devil's Sperm Is Cold in 1989 . The latter brought them scorn and ridicule from the foreign metal press because of their poor English.

In 1989 the band returned with a live program, but Samm had joined Sacrifice. Nevertheless, a concert took place in May, whereby the cast only existed for this appearance. Gezol was also able to win Elizaveat for a joint concert in October. Zorugelion became a permanent member of the band as a replacement for Samm. Since the band needed a live guitarist to replace Elizaveat, they could not perform live in 1990, but released the single The Seven Deadly Sins , which included three pieces with Samm on drums. Elizaveat supported the band in the studio as long as they hadn't found a new guitarist, and played with Sabbat the only official demo recording Sabbatical Demon and the debut album Envenom . Shortly before the album was finished, Sabbat came across Temis Osmond, who recorded a few guitar solos for the album and was performed there as a guest musician, but had become a permanent member until its release in 1991. In 1991 a European tour was started and the first preliminary talks were held with the Austrian label Lethal Records . However, a contract was not concluded.

At the beginning of 1992 the second album Evoke was created , on which Temis Osmond and Gezol shared the vocals and Zorugelion also took over vocal passages. The album was released in the summer of 1992 on Evil Records. In December 1992, Sabbat recorded a third album. In addition, the January 1993 thirteenth issue of Japan's underground metal magazine FETU was devoted to Sabbath; 33 of the 36 pages contained Sabbath interviews, pictures and detailed information. The third album Disembody was released in early 1993; in autumn the band went back to the studio; an album with new recordings of old pieces was recorded for its tenth anniversary, but it was not their next release. Instead, their fourth album Fetishism was created in 1994 ; only then did the first part of the ten-year-old album, Black up Your Soul… , with Elizaveat as a guest musician, appear, and the band gave a concert in Nagoya on June 6th, with Samm and Ozny as guests. In addition, the band released a phonogram outside of Japan for the first time. In the fall, Holycaust Recorde from the USA released the MCD Sabbatical Devilucifer with unreleased demo recordings, and Entropy Records from Italy re-released Envenom for the European market.

Since then, more than 100 records have been released in a wide variety of formats, most of which are subject to a three-digit limit. This also includes a large number of official live bootlegs or series releases. The Armageddon series, which is based on the Assault singles by Venom, is particularly well-known . It is also the band's wish to publish the band's anthem Black Fire in as many languages ​​as possible.

With Iron Pegasus Records , a German distributor has now been found. Since 1999 the publications have appeared in parallel in both countries. Gezol is also friends with the German band Desaster . Gezol has a heavy metal project going under the name Metalucifer that specializes in old-school European metal and has a Japanese and a German line-up.

In 2005 there was a tour of the United States and Canada. In 2006, Ishidamia joined Temis Osmond.

style

Sabbat is strongly influenced by Venom and also covers the band live. Other influences are Iron Maiden , Bathory , Slayer , Destruction and Sodom . In the official biography, Sabbat's music is called hard, raw and fast metal . Gezol criticizes modern Black Metal that its emphasis is on Black , and emphasizes that Sabbat's is on Metal and that the style is accordingly more oriented towards Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal . In The BNR Metal Pages is for Satan and Sacrifice ... as mostly "raw, primitive, Mitteltempo- Death Metal , with frequent nods toward early Venom, and some mid-80's pre-Death-Thrash" section.

The band's lyrics are about occultism and satanism ; Gezol wanted to differentiate himself from other bands such as Casbah , Jurassic Jade , Doom , Raging Fury, Loudness , 44 Magnum , Sniper or Reaction and was interested in topics like occultism, ghosts, satanism and strange stories, so be it for him and the other members it was natural to take up these issues.

Discography (selection)

EPs

• 1985: Sabbath
• 1987: Born by Evil Blood
• 1988: Desecration
• 1989: The Devil's Sperm Is Cold
• 1990: The Seven Deadly Sins

Albums

• 1991: Envenom
• 1992: Evoke
• 1993: Disembody
• 1994: Fetishism
• 1996: The Dwelling
• 1999: Karisma / Charisma (Japanese and English version)
• 2000: Satanasword
• 2003: Karmagmassacre
• 2011: Sabbatrinity

live

• 1995: Live at Blokula

Compilations

• 1994: Black up Your Soul ...
• 1995: ... for Satan and Sacrifice
• 1999: Sabbatical Rites
• 2004: Mion's Hill - 20th Anniversary Special Release 1984-2004
• 2004: … to Praise the Sabbatical Queen
• 2008: The Armageddon Vinylucifer Singles
• 2014: Sabbatical Earlyearslaught

The selection refers to the band's own label Evil Records as well as the labels Iron Pegasus Records and Nuclear War Now! Productions published publications.

Armageddon series

• 1996: Japanese Armageddon - Live 666 (LP)
• 1997: European Armageddon (Picture-7 '')
• 1997: Scandinavian Armageddon ( 7`` )
• 1998: East European Armageddon ( 7`` )
• 1998: American Armageddon ( 7`` )
• 1998: Asian Halmageddon ( 7`` )
• 1998: African Armageddon ( 7`` )
• 1999: South American Armageddon ( 7`` )
• 1999: Oceanic Harmageddon - Live 666 Single Edition (7``)
• 2000: Baltic Harmageddon - Sabbatical Magicurse (7 '')
• 2000: Sabbatical Magicrypt - French Armageddon (7 '')
• 2000: Iberian Armageddon - Sabbatical Magicrucifixion (7 '')
• 2000: Russian Armageddon (Picture-LP)
• 2001: Dietsland Harmageddon - Sabbatical Magicrest (7 '')
• 2001: Antarctic Armageddon (split LP with Satanas, Magnesium and Disarm)
• 2001: Minami-Kyushu Armageddon - Sabbatical Magichaos (7 '')
• 2003: Tribute to Fetu - Naniwa Armageddon ( 7`` )
• 2003: Brigitte Harmageddon (Bootleg CD)
• 2003: Sabbatical Satanist Slaughter - Bay Area Armageddon (3x6``)
• 2006: Icelandic & Greenlandic Armageddon ( 7`` )

More split releases

• 1996: Headbangers Against Disco (split with Gehennah , Infernö and Bestial Warlust )
• 2000: The Bulldozer Armageddon Volume 1 (split with Imperial)
• 2001: A Fool in Love / Reign of Terror (split with Gorgon)
• 2001: Unholy Grave / Sabbat (split with Unholy Grave )
• 2001: Japanese Metal Destruction (split with Terror Squad)
• 2001: Sabbatical Splitombstone (Split with Unpure )
• 2003: Kamikaze Splitting Roar (Split with Abigail )
• 2005: Sabbatical Disasterminator (split with disaster )
• 2005: Tokyo Genocidemonslaught (split with Asbestos)
• 2005: Sabbath / Forever Winter (Split with Forever Winter)
• 2005: Sabbatical Gorgonslaught (split with Gorgon)
• 2006: Sabbatical SiameseChristBeheading (Split with Surrender of Divinity )
• 2006: The Syonan-To Massacres ... (Split with Ironfist)
• 2006: Sabbatical Goat Semen (split with Goat Semen)
• 2008: Bolivian Demonslaught (split with Metalucifer )
• 2008: Asian Tyrants / Evil Dream (split with Metalucifer)
• 2009: Anniversarius (split with disaster)
• 2010: Evil Hellbangers (split with NunSlaughter )
• 2010: Evil Hellbangers 2 (split with NunSlaughter and Zombie Ritual)

Exclusive sampler contributions

• 1994: Black Fire (Bilingual Version) , Satanic Rites ('94 Mix Version) and In Satan We Trust (Short Version) on Far East Gate in Inferno
• 1999: Kick the Metallican on Thrashing Holocaust
• 2000: Evoke the Evil (Live) on The Return of Darkness & Hate
• 2002: Yoochuu (Live in Japan) on Jesus Wept / Black Arts comp # 1
• 2007: Samurai Zombies on Thrash Metal Warriors

Web links

• Official website
• Sabbath at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Sabbat Members. Retrieved September 27, 2012 (English). 
2. ↑ Insulter: Aburamushi “Anarchy” TS Out Now. Nuclear War Now! Productions , September 26, 2014, accessed September 27, 2012 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} SABBAT INTERVIEW 1998. Metal Nightmare, December 8, 2005, archived from the original on June 5, 2009 ; accessed on October 17, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Sabbath. (No longer available online.) The BNR Metal Pages, archived from the original on October 16, 2012 ; accessed on October 4, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.