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Dreamweaver (Sabbat album)
Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) ticism and paganism. Musically the album reflected com-
poser Andy Sneap’s predilection at that time for increas-
ingly lengthy and progressively technical thrash metal
songs. Shortly before the album was recorded, former
Holosade guitarist Simon Jones was recruited into the
band as an additional lead and rhythm guitarist.
The album has come to be regarded as a classic of
the thrash metal genre, described variously upon its re-
release in 2007 as "essential listening" (Rock Sound), a
"staggering work of total excellence" (Kerrang!), a "sem-
inal chapter in the evolution of British metal" and one of
the "finest metal albums ever made" (Metal Hammer).
Track listing
Studio album by Sabbat All lyrics by Martin Walkyier
1. "The Beginning of the End (Intro)" – 0:36 (Music:
Released 15 May 1989 Andy Sneap)
Recorded at Sky Trak Studio in January-March 1989 2. "The Clerical Conspiracy" – 5:38 (Music: Sneap)
3. "Advent of Insanity" – 2:27 (Music: Sneap)
Genre Thrash metal
4. "Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares?" – 6:24
Length 44:05 (Music: Sneap)
5. "The Best of Enemies" – 8:14 (Music: Sneap, Simon
Label Noise Records
Jones)
Producer Roy Rowland 6. "How Have the Mighty Fallen?" – 8:18 (Music: Sneap,
Professional reviews
Jones)
7. "Wildfire" – 4:39 (Music: Sneap)
The reviews parameter has been deprecated. 8. "Mythistory" – 6:47 (Music: Sneap, Jones)
Please move reviews into the “Reception” section 9. "Happy Never After (Outro)" – 1:02 (Music: Sneap)
of the article. See Moving reviews into article
space. 2007 re-release
• Allmusic link
• Metal Hammer On February 19, 2007, Dreamweaver was re-released by
• Kerrang! Sanctuary Records. The new edition features an expand-
• Rock Sound ed booket with extra photos and liner notes, remastered
• Time Out (New York) sound (undertaken by the band’s own Andy Sneap), and
Sabbat chronology three bonus live tracks, recorded in East Berlin in 1990:
10. "The Clerical Conspiracy (Live)" – 6:04
History of a Time to Dreamweaver Mourning Has 11. "Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares? (Live)" - 6:17
Come (1989) Broken 12. "The Best of Enemies (Live)" – 8:05
(1988) (1991)
Dreamweaver (Reflections of Our Yesterdays) is the second
The Story of Dreamweaver
full-length album by the British thrash metal band Sab- At the time of the album’s release, lyricist Martin Walkyi-
bat. er spoke to the metal press about the story behind the
Dreamweaver is a concept album based on the 1983 concept album, including to Kerrang! (No 240, May 27,
book by psychologist Brian Bates - "The Way of Wyrd: 1989) and Metal Forces (No 39, May 1989).
Tales of an Anglo-Saxon Sorcerer". The album demon-
strated singer and lyricist Martin Walkyier’s deep held
beliefs in Wyrdism, Anglo-Saxon spirituality, Celtic mys-
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"The Clerical Conspiracy" the spirits and makes plain their intention to fight for
their survival notwithstanding the threat of their immi-
"The Clerical Conspiracy" sets the scene for the story and
nent replacement by Christianity. Walkyier told Metal
themes to come, introducing us to Wat Brand, the Chris-
Forces magazine that having been told of the prepara-
tian missionary from northern England who, a thousand
tions he must undergo before meeting the spirits, Brand
years ago, is sent down to southern England to learn
deviates from this with the result that the spirits come
about the pagan ways of the southern Anglo-Saxons and
too soon.” Walkyier explained to Kerrang! magazine that
in doing so determine the best way in which they can
“at the end of the song they steal Brand’s soul and he
be converted to Christianity. Speaking to Kerrang!
has to prepare himself for a journey into the spirit world
Magazine, Walkyier explained that in "The Clerical Con-
to reclaim it." To Metal Forces, Walkyier stated that “He
spiracy", "the monks are talking in an abbey in the north
[Brand] has two days in which to recover his soul or his
of England, discussing the best way of converting Pagans
lifeforce will ebb out.”
in the south to Christianity."
"Advent of Insanity" "Wildfire"
In "Wildfire", Brand journeys into the spirit world.
Having accepted the quest, Wat Brand sets sail for the
Walkyier told Kerrang! Magazine that the title is a ref-
south of England, via the coast, and according to Martin
erence to Brand’s naked dance between two fires called
Walkyier, speaking to Metal Forces magazine, "Advent of
"Wildfires".
Insanity" depicts his thoughts during the journey, think-
ing about what he left behind and the perils that face him
in the future… Did he do the right thing?"
"Mythistory"
In “Mythistory”, as described by Walkyier to Metal
"Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares?" Forces Magazine, Brand “encounters his own soul which
is a woman. He doesn’t know that he has met his own soul
In “Do Dark Horses Dream of Nightmares?”, Wat Brand
and tells the woman he has come to learn the way of the
has arrived at the South, and whilst waiting for his pre-
Wyrd and the power of nature. She tells him to look no
arranged guide to arrive, falls asleep, during which he
further for she is his soul and on returning to the mater-
falls prey to nightmares during which the pagan spirits
ial world he will know anything he wanted to know." To
make first contact with him. According to Walkyier
Kerrang!, Walkyier elaborated that his soul “explains the
(speaking to Metal Forces), the spirits using this contact
way of Wyrd to him, everything that he wanted to know.”
to “try to work out whether he is trying to destroy the old
Thus his mission to convert the Pagans has become in-
Gods… to impose the new religion upon them.” Explain-
stead "a voyage of self-discovery”.
ing the title of the song, Walkyier told Kerrang! that “one
of the spirits he meets is a black horse’s head on a totem
pole in a clearing in the forest.” Personnel
• Martin Walkyier - vocals
"The Best of Enemies" • Andy Sneap - lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars
In “The Best of Enemies”, the morning after his night- • Simon Jones - rhythm and lead guitar
mare, Brand finally meets his guide, Wulf, who tells him • Frazer Craske - bass
of the pagan ways and starts to rebuke his Christian • Simon Negus - drums and percussion
ideas. Walkyier told Metal Forces magazine that Wulf
tells Brand that “if he really wants to learn then he can’t
just tell him about the spirits and the spirit world, he Production
has to encounter that for himself and has to meet the • Produced, Engineered and mixed by Roy M. Rowland
spirits face to face. He says that the spirits will give him • Artwork by Tim Beer.
all the knowledge he wants, but only if he has the con- Recorded at Sky Trak Studio in Berlin then mixed at
viction to go through with it. He has to actually risk his Hansa Studio Berlin from January to March 1989.
own death in meeting the spirits.” Walkyier told Kerrang!
that “Brand thinks that he [Wulf] is going to show him
around. But Wulf is actually a Shaman priest.”
"How Have the Mighty Fallen?"
Told from the perspective of the spirits, ”How Have the
Mighty Fallen?” describes Brand’s first real meeting with
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