Sadistik Exekution
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Sadistik Exekution is an Australia
n Death Metal
band that formed in 1985 and has existed somewhat sporadically ever since. While last playing live in 1999, the band recorded two more albums and while they have publicly declared to have disbanded several times since, the group reunited for a single performance in November 2009 at the first annual Australian Metal Awards in Sydney. Sadistik Exekution have been named as an influence by some of the world's most prominent Black metal
bands, so the group has often been called a Death metal band itself. However, Sadistik Exekution has always vehemently opposed this description.
player Dave Slave met vocalist Rok outside an Iron Maiden concert in Sydney
in 1985. In Melbourne
, they connected with former Slaughter Lord guitarist Sandy Vahdanni and drummer
Sloth, who had recorded an EP with a band called Smiling Triangles in 1978. With this formation, Sadistik Exekution recorded a demo and completed the album The Magus. Kriss Hades was then asked to join on guitar alongside Vahdanni, but in the meantime, Vahdanni left, and Sloth apparently became a born again Christian, stalling the band’s further activity. Nevertheless, the band’s outrageous behaviour on stage had already won them a fan base long before the album had even been recorded. During Slave and Rok's stay in Melbourne seeking musicians, Slave had appeared on the talent-quest segment of the Hey Hey It's Saturday
TV program and proceeded to simply smash his bass guitar. Both he and Rok had featured in articles about extreme metal in Penthouse and People
magazines and both had a reputation for turning up to virtually any heavy metal live show that was on to hand out stickers and flyers and intimidate people by doing "disgusting things in front of them." They were certainly well-known among the key members of the Norwegian
black metal
scene, and Euronymous
from Mayhem
can be seen wearing one of the band’s t-shirts in a photograph later used as the cover of the famous Tribute to the Black Emperors bootleg album.
The Magus was finally released in 1991 by the Sydney label Praise God Records. In the meantime, Sloth apparently abandoned his Christian beliefs and rejoined Sadistik Exekution, allowing them to play live. Their performances were chaotic spectacles that featured Hades playing with dozens of safety pins in his flesh and Rok and Dave Slave often exhorting the crowd into singalongs. Audiences responded by throwing flowers and smiling, and the singer and bass player would often retaliate by entering the crowd and punching people.
Rok was also a 'pen pal' of the lead singer and founding member Quorthon
of Swedish Black Metal pioneers Bathory
, . Rok sent demonic hand drawn pictures to Quorthon who in return mailed back bones from an unknown skeleton. Rok saw this as a sign to continue his work further.
label Osmose Productions
. Though intended to be self-titled, Hades had written We Are Death... Fukk You!
on the tapes as a reaction to what they believed was constant misrepresentation as a black metal band; the label mistook the words to be the title of the album and released it under that name. It quickly became a best-selling release for the label and in 1995 the group was invited on a Europe
an tour with Finnish band Impaled Nazarene
and American act Absu. Hoban had injured his back at a Bolt Thrower concert after the recording sessions and was no longer able to play the drums. The Melbourne grindcore
band Damaged
had recently split up and drummer Matt "Skitz" Sanders was recruited by Sadistik Exekution. It was during this tour that one of the most famous incidents in the band’s history occurred. Sadistik Exekution had never done a full tour and were in fact better known for only playing once or twice a year. Sharing a bus with two other bands eventually caused Dave Slave to lose control and go berzerk, destroying the tour bus. Apparently believing the only way to stop him was to try and beat him severely;, Amazingly, the tour proceeded the next day with the guitarist playing the rest of the shows with a badly broken finger. Upon returning to Australia, Sadistik Exekution ceased all activity for over a year while Hades recovered.
, with whom he recorded an EP. Sloth recorded a series of demos consisting of some of his many punk rock
songs under the name Bog.
At the end of the year, shortly after Rok had performed a solo show, Sadistik Exekution reconvened to play on New Year’s Eve. It was billed as their last show ever, but the band had often advertised their performances this way. Indeed, a few months later they took to the stage again at Sydney’s Globe Theatre. This show, however, was fated to be Sadistik Exekution’s last ever concert. The band remained dormant for the remainder of the year as Hades toured with Nazxul and the others concerned themselves with personal projects once more. Rok’s second album, Burning Metal, appeared in 2000, and Kriss Hades began piecing together several tracks that would make up his solo debut. The band maintained that it had ended as a live act, but when the line-up for that year’s Metal for the Brain
festival was announced, Sadistik Exekution was billed as one of the headliners. While anticipation among fans was high that the country’s most notorious death metal band was finally making an appearance at Australia’s biggest metal event, Dave Slave broke his leg in a fight shortly before the show and the band had to withdraw.
Dave Slave has often affirmed that the band is no more, claiming to be busy with his solo act Doomed and Disgusting. He has also expressed an interest in acting, having made an appearance in a TV advertisement for The Real McCoy Snackfoods in 2003. Kriss Hades has established himself as a solo artist, producing an album of noise and dark ambience
in 2002. He also maintains a parallel career as an underground artist. Sloth joined a western Sydney thrash band called Inslain in 2003 and was later member of a rock band called 8 Ball Junkies. Despite this, Sadistik Exekution will make a live return in November 2009 as the featured act at the Australian Metal Awards in Sydney.
In 2009 Rok appeared on JJJ's leading Heavy Metal radio show The Racket with Andrew Houge, Rok gave a lengthy interview with Andrew and spoke of his many adventures. In what was at times a highly amusing interview, Rok made no further comments about SE recording further albums. Later that month they appeared to a packed house at Fox Studios for the Australian Heavy Metal awards night where they were given the finally spot for the night, Rok and Co. put on a spectacular show for the full house, an amazing display of their powerful sound and presences on stage. It was recorded on the night by the venue it is not known how to obtain a copy, a viewing of this is a must for any Death/punk
Metal fan. Like Celtic Frost & Hellhammer, two bands with a MASSIVE influence on Rok, sadly we may never see another group like SE form with such energy.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n Death Metal
Death metal
Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....
band that formed in 1985 and has existed somewhat sporadically ever since. While last playing live in 1999, the band recorded two more albums and while they have publicly declared to have disbanded several times since, the group reunited for a single performance in November 2009 at the first annual Australian Metal Awards in Sydney. Sadistik Exekution have been named as an influence by some of the world's most prominent Black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
bands, so the group has often been called a Death metal band itself. However, Sadistik Exekution has always vehemently opposed this description.
History
The band was formed after bassBass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
player Dave Slave met vocalist Rok outside an Iron Maiden concert in Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
in 1985. In Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, they connected with former Slaughter Lord guitarist Sandy Vahdanni and drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
Sloth, who had recorded an EP with a band called Smiling Triangles in 1978. With this formation, Sadistik Exekution recorded a demo and completed the album The Magus. Kriss Hades was then asked to join on guitar alongside Vahdanni, but in the meantime, Vahdanni left, and Sloth apparently became a born again Christian, stalling the band’s further activity. Nevertheless, the band’s outrageous behaviour on stage had already won them a fan base long before the album had even been recorded. During Slave and Rok's stay in Melbourne seeking musicians, Slave had appeared on the talent-quest segment of the Hey Hey It's Saturday
Hey Hey It's Saturday
Hey Hey It's Saturday was a long-running variety television program on Australian television. It initially ran for 27 years , debuting on the Nine Network on 9 October 1971 and broadcasting its last episode on 20 November 1999. Its host throughout its entire run was Daryl Somers, who would later...
TV program and proceeded to simply smash his bass guitar. Both he and Rok had featured in articles about extreme metal in Penthouse and People
People (Australian magazine)
People is a weekly Australian lad's mag published by ACP Publishing, a division of PBL Media. It has been published since the 1950s. It is not to be confused with the gossip magazine known by that name in the United States; that magazine is published under the name Who in Australia.People focuses...
magazines and both had a reputation for turning up to virtually any heavy metal live show that was on to hand out stickers and flyers and intimidate people by doing "disgusting things in front of them." They were certainly well-known among the key members of the Norwegian
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
scene, and Euronymous
Euronymous
Øystein Aarseth , who went by the pseudonym Euronymous, was a Norwegian guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem...
from Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...
can be seen wearing one of the band’s t-shirts in a photograph later used as the cover of the famous Tribute to the Black Emperors bootleg album.
The Magus was finally released in 1991 by the Sydney label Praise God Records. In the meantime, Sloth apparently abandoned his Christian beliefs and rejoined Sadistik Exekution, allowing them to play live. Their performances were chaotic spectacles that featured Hades playing with dozens of safety pins in his flesh and Rok and Dave Slave often exhorting the crowd into singalongs. Audiences responded by throwing flowers and smiling, and the singer and bass player would often retaliate by entering the crowd and punching people.
Rok was also a 'pen pal' of the lead singer and founding member Quorthon
Quorthon
Tomas Forsberg, better known as "Quorthon" , was a multi-instrumentalist and the founder and songwriter of the pioneering Swedish black metal band Bathory. He is also credited with creating the Viking metal genre...
of Swedish Black Metal pioneers Bathory
Bathory (band)
Bathory was a Swedish heavy metal band, formed by Quorthon in 1983. They are regarded as pioneers of both black metal and viking metal. Quorthon remained the main songwriter and member of Bathory for more than two decades. Bathory was permanently ended after Quorthon's death in 2004...
, . Rok sent demonic hand drawn pictures to Quorthon who in return mailed back bones from an unknown skeleton. Rok saw this as a sign to continue his work further.
We Are Death
In 1993, Sloth left the band once again as they recorded their second album, and Steve "The Mechanik" Hoban played on one track. The completed album was sent to FrenchFrance
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
label Osmose Productions
Osmose Productions
Osmose Productions is a French independent record label created in 1991 by Hervé Herbaut, after he had spent three years running a small mail order company...
. Though intended to be self-titled, Hades had written We Are Death... Fukk You!
We Are Death... Fukk You!
We Are Death... Fukk You! is the second album from Australian death metal band Sadistik Exekution. It was released in 1994 on Osmose Productions. The name of the album does not appear on the cover, as the band had intended it to be a self-titled release. However, singer Rok had written the words...
on the tapes as a reaction to what they believed was constant misrepresentation as a black metal band; the label mistook the words to be the title of the album and released it under that name. It quickly became a best-selling release for the label and in 1995 the group was invited on a Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
an tour with Finnish band Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish black metal band that incorporates elements of grindcore in their sound and punk rock in their aesthetics. The band is currently signed to Osmose Productions of France....
and American act Absu. Hoban had injured his back at a Bolt Thrower concert after the recording sessions and was no longer able to play the drums. The Melbourne grindcore
Grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
band Damaged
Damaged (band)
Damaged was an Australian deathgrind band from Ballarat in Victoria, Australia, active from 1989 to 2004.-History:The band was formed by drummer Matt "Skitz" Sanders...
had recently split up and drummer Matt "Skitz" Sanders was recruited by Sadistik Exekution. It was during this tour that one of the most famous incidents in the band’s history occurred. Sadistik Exekution had never done a full tour and were in fact better known for only playing once or twice a year. Sharing a bus with two other bands eventually caused Dave Slave to lose control and go berzerk, destroying the tour bus. Apparently believing the only way to stop him was to try and beat him severely;, Amazingly, the tour proceeded the next day with the guitarist playing the rest of the shows with a badly broken finger. Upon returning to Australia, Sadistik Exekution ceased all activity for over a year while Hades recovered.
K.A.O.S.
With Sloth back in the band once more, Sadistik Exekution returned in 1997 with their third album, K.A.O.S.. Faster and rawer than anything the band had produced before, the album saw the beginning of a particularly active period for Sadistik Exekution with a steady stream of live performances and other projects. Dave Slave had been working on an album of electronic rock n’ roll for several years, finally releasing it under the name Digital Fiction in 1998 through a Brisbane distributor called Oracle. Early the same year, Rok recorded two solo albums, with Osmose releasing the first, This is Satanik, toward the end of the year. Kriss Hades joined the Sydney black metal band NazxulNazxul
Nazxul is a black metal band from Sydney, Australia. At one time featuring members of other prominent local metal bands including Mortal Sin and Sadistik Exekution, Nazxul has released two albums, an EP and several split releases with other bands....
, with whom he recorded an EP. Sloth recorded a series of demos consisting of some of his many punk rock
Punk rock
Punk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
songs under the name Bog.
At the end of the year, shortly after Rok had performed a solo show, Sadistik Exekution reconvened to play on New Year’s Eve. It was billed as their last show ever, but the band had often advertised their performances this way. Indeed, a few months later they took to the stage again at Sydney’s Globe Theatre. This show, however, was fated to be Sadistik Exekution’s last ever concert. The band remained dormant for the remainder of the year as Hades toured with Nazxul and the others concerned themselves with personal projects once more. Rok’s second album, Burning Metal, appeared in 2000, and Kriss Hades began piecing together several tracks that would make up his solo debut. The band maintained that it had ended as a live act, but when the line-up for that year’s Metal for the Brain
Metal for the Brain
Metal for the Brain was Australia's largest heavy metal music festival. The event was held in Canberra annually, usually towards the end of the year, and featured Australian bands almost exclusively...
festival was announced, Sadistik Exekution was billed as one of the headliners. While anticipation among fans was high that the country’s most notorious death metal band was finally making an appearance at Australia’s biggest metal event, Dave Slave broke his leg in a fight shortly before the show and the band had to withdraw.
Final recordings
A further two Sadistik Exekution albums were recorded, the first, Fukk released in 2002 and the second, simply called Fukk II, appearing two years later.Dave Slave has often affirmed that the band is no more, claiming to be busy with his solo act Doomed and Disgusting. He has also expressed an interest in acting, having made an appearance in a TV advertisement for The Real McCoy Snackfoods in 2003. Kriss Hades has established himself as a solo artist, producing an album of noise and dark ambience
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
in 2002. He also maintains a parallel career as an underground artist. Sloth joined a western Sydney thrash band called Inslain in 2003 and was later member of a rock band called 8 Ball Junkies. Despite this, Sadistik Exekution will make a live return in November 2009 as the featured act at the Australian Metal Awards in Sydney.
In 2009 Rok appeared on JJJ's leading Heavy Metal radio show The Racket with Andrew Houge, Rok gave a lengthy interview with Andrew and spoke of his many adventures. In what was at times a highly amusing interview, Rok made no further comments about SE recording further albums. Later that month they appeared to a packed house at Fox Studios for the Australian Heavy Metal awards night where they were given the finally spot for the night, Rok and Co. put on a spectacular show for the full house, an amazing display of their powerful sound and presences on stage. It was recorded on the night by the venue it is not known how to obtain a copy, a viewing of this is a must for any Death/punk
Metal fan. Like Celtic Frost & Hellhammer, two bands with a MASSIVE influence on Rok, sadly we may never see another group like SE form with such energy.