The Great Sabatini

I would imagine if you follow this here snazzy blogazine, you will relate to what I'm about to say. I like the metal guitar & drum sound, metal studio production, the technical standards of metal, and maybe even the ripping, cool, press photos, of dudes holding invisible crystal balls, while howling at the moon in corpse paint, all out metalized. But at the end of the day I'm sorta cheesed out by metal's habit of rehashing the music.

Enter Montreal's The Great Sabatini! If you relate to the above, this band is for you. All the good stuff about metal (unfortunately no sick warlock press photos...), minus the stock metal riffs recycled from 1980. It is a fact that The Great Sabatini rips it up with craftiness through band-wide poly rhythm, inventive, flowing drums, and throaty in-the-mix vocals that share a spot with the instruments instead of dominating your attention, so as to not ruin the wicked riffs. These dudes cover some ground in the mood department too, spanning doomy gloom trough to driving and anthemic. I have a feeling that if you dig on earlier Mastodon and the better Today Is The Day stuff, you'll enjoy ripping it to The Great Sabatini.

The Great Sabatini is all set to release Sad Parade Of Yesterdays. It's 12 jams deep and being supported out of the gate with the band taking a jaunt across Ontario in July. See them in Toronto on Wednesday, July, 8th, at the Smiling Buddha.

These three exclusive tracks on the players are a first listen of hot jams from Sad Parade Of Yesterdays. Track names are as follows and in order:

Album Track 3 > Robots
Album Track 5 > Lincoln Continental Breakfast
Album Track 10 > Birth Of The Cruel


Top image/ illustration :: http://www.myspace.com/thegreatsabatini