Awesome early black metal album (Dreamweaver - Sabbat)

Member Name: dangaroo

Product:	Dreamweaver - Sabbat
Date:	29/06/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Great vocals and music, even like the concept

Disadvantages: None

Dreamweaver was originally released in 1989, the latest release throws in a few additional tracks and is re-mastered, although I find that the vocals are still a bit quieter than the music.

Sabbat's style seems quite different from the black metal today, an interesting thing about metal is that it attracts a variety of listeners from biker scoundrels through to posh kids who revel in the dark imagery. Sabbat actually sound like the latter, the vocals come out almost like upper class twit as he takes the lead with a unique forceful type of singing that sounds like Prince Charles singing punk with a hot potato in his mouth.

The diction is pretty good and everything would be perfectly audible if it wasn't for the music seemingly having been produced louder than the vocals. Musically it's a mammoth of a masterpiece, a relentless rifftastic piece of music that works as individual track records and as a concept album.

The concept album is about a Christian missionary who comes to Breton but later gets into doubt and finally becomes a pagan himself.

I'm not usually a fan of concept albums but I find that this one is well delivered and the band do a great job at bringing it to life. I find that the album wanes a bit to the end but considering its age and the style of the music it can certainly be considered groundbreaking material.

1 The Beginning Of The End (Intro)
2 The Clerical Conspiracy
3 Advent Of Insanity
4 Do Dark Horses Dream Of Nightmares?
5 The Best Of Enemies
6 How Have the Mighty Fallen?
7 Wildfire
8 Mythistory
9 Happy Never After
10 The Clerical Conspiracy
11 Do Dark Horses Dream Of Nightmares?
12 The Best Of Enemies

Summary: Classic 80s black metal