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Topic: SadistPosted By: toroddfuglesteg
Subject: Sadist
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 10:16
Sadist from Italy was one of the first ever progressive melodic death metal bands in the scene. Their demo and EP sold many thousand copies. Their groundbreaking debut album Above The Light detonated in the scene like a bomb. They have since released some more albums and toured extensively.
I got in touch with the band for their story and the latest updates.
Your
biography has been covered in your ProgArchives profile so let's
bypass the biography details. But
which bands were you influenced by when you started ?
Since the beginning the band has always been influenced by many
different kind of music and styles. And also because we were one of
the first thrash/death bands using keyboards, many of those
influences did not come necesseraly from metal. If I have to name you
bands, I could start from '70s prog. ones like EL&P, YES, GOBLIN,
to arrive at late '80s thrash and death metal bands: SLAYER and
ANNIHILATOR over all.
Sadist
very early, from your demo, got the reputation as one of the best and
most promising death metal bands from Europe. Please tell us more
about your demo, the Black Screams EP and your debut album, the
legendary Above the Light from 1993.
When we recorded the "Black Screams" EP we were really too
young and unexperienced, and doing such kind of music in Italy was at
least very strange: recording studios were not used to that sound,
that's why that EP sounds so bad! That's more or less the same
problem with our debut album "Above The Light", but at
least the music was so strange and original that Sadist got noticed
all over Europe. Despite the bad production that album still sounds
original, and all Sadist fans love it.
The
follow up album Tribe was out in 1996. Please tell us more about the
time leading up to this album and the album itself
With "Tribe" many things changed: different singer and
different bass player, and a complete different way of writing music.
'Till that moment we were used to write most of the songs together in
our rehearsal room, but for "Tribe" almost all songs came
out from Tommy's pen. That's why the second album sounds so cold and
guitar/keyboards oriented.
Please
tell us more about Crust from 1997
In 1996 original bass player Andy came back in the band, and we
returned on the old way of writing music. But we also felt the need
to do something different from "Tribe", Tommy started
playing 7 strings guitar and the sound got into a much heavier
direction.
Lego
from 2000 was a slight departure from your sound and a slightly
controversial album. Please tell us more about this album
We consider "Lego" a sort of mistake: some of the songs on
the album were not that bad, but the whole songwriting direction was
probably to far from all previous albums! We wanted to do something
different, and we fault... I guess every band makes a bad album once
in a life!
There
was a long silence from Sadist after this album before you resurfaced
again. Please tell us more about this time.
Having generally bad reviews and bad responses after the release of
the album, our mood got very bad, and we thought that stopping for a
while was the best solution. Actually we can say it was the right
decision, 'cause when we came back in 2005 we were a stronger and
reasoned band compared the 2000 one!
Please
tell us more about Sadist from 2007
"Sadist" is the right balance between all our influences:
it has got the perfect Sadist sound! When we wrote it we really wanted
the album to sound like the sum first three albums! I think we
succeeded in it! In "Sadist" you can find everything you
would expect from a Sadist album: aggressiveness, skill, prog.,
experimentation... We are still very proud of that album!
You
have a new album out, well some months old album called Season In
Silence from 2010. Please tell us more about this album.
This time we wanted to concentrate on a heavier and darker sound; the
entire album is based on the cold of winter and the moods that
accompany this season, this is why we wanted to send out a hard
frost, a deep sense of anguish!
How
would you describe your musical journey and developments from Above
The Light to Season In Silence ?
We are a prog band that plays extreme music! To me having a "prog"
attitude doesn't mean to play long and complicated songs, but to keep
on developing your own style, to continue to experiment with new
sounds! To me many of the so called "prog metal" bands are
nothing but a metal version of Rush or Yes or Pink Floyd!
How
is your writing and creative processes ?
There is no specific rule: the first of us with an interesting idea
offers it to the rest of the band members, and we start on working on
it all together! But we have a problem: we are Italians, that means
we are so f..kin' lazy and we need a lot of time to write good stuff!
What
is your experiences with the music industry during your career ?
We can say we are pretty well experienced: we run a company called
http://www.nadirmusic.net - in which Trevor works as live
promoter and press office, Tommy is a well known sound engineer and
producer, and Federico (Sadist manager) is an experienced musical
manager. We all work in music all day long, not just as musicians.
For
those of us who know the death metal scene; Sadist is legends. What
is your view on the new death metal scene vs the death metal scene
you were a part of in the beginning of the 1990s ?
If we talk of prog death, I still prefer the '90s bands: Cynic over
all! But there are some very interesting brand new bands nowdays
also: I'm thinking about Obscura for instance.
It
is my understanding you also tour a lot. How important for Sadist is
it to tour ? Is it any chance for a live album and/or a DVD ?
Sadist is a f..king' live band!! There's no other reason for being in
a rock band!
Besides
of Sadist; do you have normal daytime job or are you 100 % musicians
? Are any of you involved in any other bands too ?
We are quite lucky people, 'cause we all work in music. And that's
cool: this way we are experienced enough to know what is better for
the band.
What
is your plans for this and next year ?
We just came back from Est of Europe where we toured for more than a
month and we need a little rest. But we should be around Europe again
in February or March. In the meanwhile we should start working on new
stuff: we better do it faster.
To
wrap up this interview, is there anything you want to add to this
interview ?
Stay brutal!
Thanx to Sadist for this interview
Their PA profile is http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=4245 - and their homepage http://www.nadirmusic.net -
Replies: Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: November 18 2010 at 15:26
Ow.
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
Posted By: CPicard
Date Posted: November 20 2010 at 16:57
An European tour in March? They'd better come to Paris or I will be anger and disapointment.