SABBAT — The Dwelling (review)

SABBAT — The Dwelling album cover Album · 1996 · Black Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Warthur
What if Black Sabbath took a left turn into black metal? I suspect the end result might sound something like Sabbat's The Dwelling, which lurches drastically between fuzzed-out doomy passages and biting black metal fury. I understand that it's meant to be a concept album from the point of view of a serial killer trapped in the downward spiral of his self-destructive madness, though I suspect it'll take numerous listenings before I can piece the story together; still, the old school black metal imagery of witches and demons which informs the vocals sits nicely with the Mayhem-meets-Venom tone of the black metal sections. On the whole, an interesting effort, though I wouldn't call it a classic.
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renkls wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Give it a few more listens, it's quite a marvellous piece (at least to my ears). Good review by the way.

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