Album Dive
One of the key components of classic thrash during the glory years was riffs; namely “how many can you fit into one song?” (sort of the same logic used in many of today’s finer adult motion picture feature presentations).
Sabbat answers that question: ALL of them!! This was new territory for some of us as we weren’t as familiar with Sabbat back in the day and didn’t have access to it (though it if we did, we would have certainly bought it).
CONCEPT
ALBUM
ALERT
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JOIN US after you fix your favorite relaxer and cancel the rest of your afternoon as we dive into Sabbat’s Dreamweaver and talk about the story, the plot, the riffs and that creepy ass careless demon whisper.
Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays): Released May 15, 1989.
Recorded at Sky Trak Studio, in Berlin, Germany.
The Beginning of the End: The perfect classic thrash intro; creepy wind, creepy crows and a creepy dude talking in the background about some super sketchy random stuff. This intro pretty much captures the vibe of the “Dreamweaver” album art.
The Clerical Conspiracy: Definitely has that old school thrash vibe that challenges the often asked but never answered question: How many riffs can YOU fit in ONE thrash song?
Advent of Insanity: Nice creepy acoustic intro with ghost pirate ship sound effects in the background. Generally creepy acoustic intro equals killer riffs coming right behind it.
Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares?: that sounds like it’s wrapped up in drug metaphors. Okay WTF is being said at the 2:37 mark!? (That’s a sinister whisper) … Super progressive thrash.
The Best of Enemies: That intro paints a nice audio-visual picture. Very Testament sounding riff there in the middle; niceness. In some strange way, this kind of reminds me of old school Ghost Story (ATL- HAIL!) in some ways. Some of these songs are very much progressive thrash; like an all you can eat buffet of delicious classic Riff Casserole. (It sounds like “The Legacy” and “Hell Awaits” had a wild night together and “Forbidden Evil” filmed it.)
How Have the Mighty Fallen?: Very Amityville Horror kind of opening…with the flies/bees. Definitely classic thrash riffs…the kind that activate the “Riff Laughter” response. Solid mix and production; sometimes that was a challenge due to insufficient budgets or insufficient competence, but this album was produced very well; captured all of the proper thrash dynamics that existed at the crest of the wave of late 80’s thrash metal.
Wildfire: Less progressive, more direct. Be sure to check out the story of Dreamweaver. Killer dual guitar solos harmonized.
Mythistory: The other thing in thrash, besides “how many riffs can you fit in one song?” was “How many opportunities can the lead guitar player take to make riffs out of solos?”.
Happy Never After (Outro): And now we’ll play a jig on our guitars and our lutes, in short: we shall play a jig on our glutes.
Show Notes
00.00: #noteven Weirdness…we were streaming on Facebook LIVE as we recorded this…you can check us out on the Facebook at Metal Nerdery Podcast (***THANK YOU TO ALL WHO JOINED US ON FACEBOOK LIVE!!!***)/#HEY…and you can listen to this with headphones for a true surround sound experience/#productionASSistance/A very “Monday” kinda Tuesday night #itsfuckingmonday
03.38: 1989: Album Dive: Sabbat Dreamweaver-Reflections of Our Yesterdays (Part of Britain’s #Big4 #BritishBig4)/Lots of delicious and various splendoriousness all in one massive thrash casserole/***CONCEPT ALBUM ALERT*** #howmanyriffs? Andy Sneap (and on-mic burps) and some factoids (Wait, Glenn WHO?)/First time listening…
08.37: #cantbeloudenough for Russ (remasterize beyond the 2007 version?)/Some songs have to be uncomfortably loud! /#wellwhathappened/One of the British Big 4 Thrash bands/#lsdpasta
13.33: Are we still rolling? (it’s the weirdest non Monday Monday ever)/More shout outs…#motherfucker #bartsingslikeamotherfucker #revveduplikeadouche/***THIS is when you should sync up the podcast episode with the Facebook LIVE post***/Frozen Idiot/#moreshoutouts www.metalnerdery.com/episodes / Tangentional Tangentionalality Tangent: Ozzy Osbourne: Speak of the Devil vs the first 2 Rhoads albums, record stores, album art and the new “media”/Old Gwinnett Place memories regarding Ozzy/Ozzy’s “very specific” hair style type
22.22: Tangentiacally? I’m down!/#backhole/Sabbat: Dreamweaver (#metalnerderyASMR)/The Concept Album alert: #readthoselyrics/The Way of Wyrd/The basic plot of Dreamweaver (as told by Russell)/***This is where we break off from Facebook…come check us out at www.metalnerdery.com/episodes*** /***EMAIL US at metalnerdery@gmail.com***
27.08: He got converted the “other” way/The intensity of the vocals/The “whisper” incident/Coming soon: #coverart/ The Beginning of the End/The Clerical Conspiracy/So many riffs: so little time/#seekit/Reflections of Our Yesterdays (the “extended” title)/Remember “The Laugh Factor”?
33.11: Advent of Insanity (#weird #creepy #down kinda vibe)/Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares? #evilwhispers and #fasturbation (again, READ THOSE LYRICS!! It’s a helluva story and exceptionally well written; High quality!)/#grunts
42.52: The Best of Enemies/Overkill Pretty? /Writing “hooky” songs.
53.30: Mythistory: conversion complete (#brujo)/Definitely old school thrash goodness/Interesting effects on the vocals/Happy Never After (Outro)/Is that it? (No, that’s not it)/#ourshow/Russ has a “secret”/Soundbox blue tooth speaker and Walmart (free plug) #brutoof/Until the Next…GO PURCHASE Dreamweaver: Reflections of our Yesterdays (and what he said)