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Two artists share this name: a British thrash metal band and a Japanese black/thrash metal. They are listed in order of prominence:

1) The British Sabbat is a thrash metal band formed out the ashes of two previous high-school bands, ‘Hell’ and ‘Hydra’, in May 1985, when vocalist Martin Walkyier and bassist Fraser Craske of Hydra ditched their guitarist (who wished to concentrate on a more melodic style of metal) and hooked up with guitarist Andy Sneap and drummer Simon Negus to form the first Sabbat line-up. After rehearsing for nearly a year they released the “Fragments of a Faith Forgotten” demo, which was very well received, with immediate interest from several record companies and a two-page spread in Kerrang! magazine. After releasing a Warhammer-inspired Flexi-disc on the front cover of White Dwarf magazine, the band penned a deal with German Noise Records in mid 1987 (signing had previously been delayed because Andy Sneap was under 18 years of age and not legally an adult). The band travelled to Hanover in September 1987 to record their debut album, “History Of A Time To Come”. It was well received, as was the follow-up effort “Dreamweaver”, however, tensions within the band began to mount, Some of the tensions related to Martin Walyier’s folk music direction and Andy Sneap’s long drawn out songwriting - 2 facts documented in terrorizer magazine,and Metal Hammer - However, the biggest pressure was simply financial - the band were broke, and completely unmanaged by their record label Noise.
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  • Pushmajster

    Sabbat is best Sabbat.

    23 May 10:17am Reply

  • greywanderer7

    There should be separated pages for both bands. Only then the pointless debate on which one is better may stop.

    14 May 1:41am Reply

  • sjaor

    you forgot the diaper

    12 May 10:01pm Reply

  • metal_gimp

    fuck I could understand if people were getting pissed at a really popular band eclipsing the other, but we're talking about two fairly underground bands here (black/thrash sabbat's grave is obviously a few feet deeper). It's like two freaks having a pissing contest in the seedy toilets of a shitty pub while everyone else is at the Metallica concert in the centre of town. Only one's sporting reebok high-tops and a mullet while the other one's probably only wearing a bullet belt and a moth-eaten bathory shirt.

    12 May 10:42am Reply

  • defnoob

    Can't say I prefer either Sabbat to either one. Japanese Sabbat has better riffs and is less overlong in their songs than the UK one, but Walkyier of the UK Sabbat is a better vocalist in the UK outfit. Both bands have their negatives and pluses, but there are better bands from both countries.

    11 May 4:00am Reply

  • Blessedheart

    Sabbat (JPN) > Sabbat (GBR)

    8 May 10:25pm Reply

  • Leatherdick

    Harmageddon!

    18 Apr 4:25pm Reply

  • Alexandros888

    Samurai Zombies !!!!!

    6 Apr 12:11am Reply

  • SurfinIndiana

    "Both bands are fucking great!" Agreed. This is also one of the few instances here on Last.fm where there is more than one excellent band occupying the same page.

    27 Mar 7:48pm Reply

  • Yellowxander

    Ex Sabbat member update: http://metaltalk.net/news2012-2/2012721.php

    27 Mar 2:16pm Reply

  • Evil_Deicider

    Total Necro......

    17 Mar 6:58am Reply

  • metalinvader34

    Horned is the Hunter!

    5 Mar 1:03am Reply

  • Scared3

    Sabbat (UK) is so much better than Sabbat (JP) [5]

    2 Mar 3:16pm Reply

  • haadeus

    We should have a sabbat at the Japanese embassy in London. England must be the location due to the long history of dabbling with the occult.

    28 Feb 11:59am Reply

  • Agravenlife

    Everything sucks but Karisma. Really.

    28 Feb 11:12am Reply

  • spermdonor

    I started with Envenom, but you're in for a treat because starting with their late 90s stuff they vary up the sound on almost every one. The early 90s stuff I would say almost has a death/thrash feel to it, but as time went on they started incorporating more of their classic heavy metal sound from the 80s, with lots of thrashing. I'd argue to say the majority of their output isn't even necessarily thrash, it's more like black heavy metal or speed metal. But now I'm rambling and sound dumb. :'c

    22 Feb 11:40pm Reply

  • DyingArtist

    Japnese Sabbat ftw!

    19 Feb 7:12pm Reply

  • SPLCHRLCRNG

    satan bressyuu

    8 Feb 2:02am Reply

  • kukatz

    How Have the Mighty Fallen?

    3 Feb 6:42pm Reply

  • Pheneks

    This is probably the only page on last.fm where bands with the same name are coexisting. That's awesome.

    28 Jan 2:39am Reply
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