SABBAT - Sabbaticult LP (Black Vinyl)
Sabbat has always been very straight to the point with their songwriting, without ever trying to reinvent the wheel or incorporate something that would diminish their pure and occult magic, and Sabbaticult is just what you would ever want from Sabbat's album. The simplicity and the heaviness of the riffs shines all the way through, always keeping you engaged with every song, especially on the final track "Kanashibari The Dwelling (Eternal Curse 7x3)" that is perhaps the most entertaining of the bunch. What many people have complained about Sabbat's music are the screaming vocals of Gezol, deeming them as silly and complete non-sense, and this album is no exception to that criticism. I'm aware that Sabbat is not a band for everyone out there, because it's a band loved only by the pure and hardcore oldschool extreme metal devotes, so the only thing I can say to you is what has been said numerous times, "if you are false, don't entry", no more, no less. Production-wise, the album has a very demo tape-recording quality that sounds like it came straight from the vault of 1984-1987, and it's as dirty and raw as you can imagine.