685 - Sabbat The Clerical Conspiracy 1989

Having instantly established themselves as a force to be reckoned among British-bred thrash bands, the members of Sabbat then set to work squandering their massive potential by trying to kill each other. With their creative relationship already heading south at alarming speed, the band's dual creative forces, vocalist Martin Walkyier and guitarist Andy Sneap, proceeded to butt heads throughout the recording process for Sabbat's second album, Dreamweavers, and it shows. As if to counteract Walkyier's increasingly unpredictable flights of lyrical fancy, thrash purist Sneap ensures that his riffing is even tighter and more precise (though no less inventive) than on the band's first album. "The Clerical Conspiracy" shows Walkyier's amazing verbosity, as he proceeds to spew mountains of rapid-fire ramblings about his favorite subjects (witchcraft, insanity, mythology