Sadomator interview with Seventh Blasphemer

MORBIDZINE: Bestial hails to Sadomator and Seventh Blasphemer! Thanks for taking the time to talk with us. Sadomator continues its path of perverted, goat-worshipping, war-declared death-black metal—like it was recorded in hell to devastate and desecrate all divinities. Since your debut, each Sadomator album has shown insane progression. Tell us about the goat-worshipping ideology behind Goatblood Panspermia and the previous recordings, from your point of view.

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Hails, sorry about the late reply, things is always busy here and it is more and more rare that I am in the mood for interviews. Better late than never, I hope. The product of Sadomator has been the same from the beginning, as it was with Sadogoat, to spread the message of total death and profanity. Mostly the new album deal with the ever present goatlust in death metal of the underground kind, so this is the way of life manifesting in the music and lyrics.

MORBIDZINE: There's a track titled "Goatzone Massacre (1944)." Which side of World War II is this track based on?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: It is based on the side of the Goat Cult, it is an old Sadogoat track which we re-recorded. The lyrics are very short and just tell about how to vanish into the void. There is not much to it, it was written during some occult session many years ago.

MORBIDZINE: Will the name of the next album definitely include the word "Goat"?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Probably, but it is hard to know, we haven't even begun writing any tracks for the next album, so I can not even tell if there ever will be one. Our latest release was the split with Morbosidad, that one did not have the word goat in the title, but it was also kind of special, as it was the first split release we did while being Sadomator.

MORBIDZINE: The recent split with Morbosidad—8 minutes of brutal noise terror by both bands—came with a killer cover. What are your thoughts on it, and how did the release come about?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: We have met with Morbosidad and the band is really great and the members are great people too, so we got an offer, through a label, to do a split with them, naturally we agreed. At some point the label was changed to Iron Bonehead, I had no problem with that as we usually have a good deal through that label. The release came out great, with both bands delivering strong tracks and the cover was great and brutal too.

MORBIDZINE: How do you see Sadomator’s place in today’s satanic death/black metal scene? And your thoughts on the term "War Metal," often linked with Blasphemy? How do you feel about being labeled as such?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: I don't think we play war metal and I don't think Blasphemy is war metal. War metal was created by Holocausto. Most war metal bands of today just play satanic death metal or black metal, whatever you prefer, and lot of the bands was defined so for many years, untill war metal was the new big term to throw around. I think most bands get defined into a genre by the listeners and not by themselves. I don't know if we are or ever were a big part of any scene, we have done some albums which have made their mark into the underground, but I still think there is a long way to go before were are really accepted. I don't care much for the fame and money, but of course it is nice that people like what we do, but for me the most important thing is to play the music I like and if I can get a vinyl release it is a great bonus. This will never make me rich in any way, not on this level.

MORBIDZINE: There are many killer bands today continuing the path carved by Blasphemy, Beherit, Sarcófago, Mystifier, Von, Conqueror. In recent years, this style has grown a lot. What do you think of this rise? Any favorite bands among the newer wave?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Many of these bands have been around for many years, Morbosidad and Black Witchery can hardly be called new bands anymore. I think it is a good thing that there has been a rise of this genre again, there have been some great concerts and festivals which definately could not have happened ten years ago, so of course there is more focus and people get inspired, so there will be more bands all the time and luckily there is some which are really good. I think most of the bands you mentioned are great, but I also try and get music from more underground bands, which is getting easier since I made Silver Key Records. But it is hard to tell what bands are my favourites, I listen to so many different things all the time. I think that this genre will continue to be big for a long time, but eventually it will probably thin out for some of the posers and trend people who have come along for the ride. Time will tell.

MORBIDZINE: Where did the samples on Sadomatic Goat Cult come from? Any horror films that influenced you?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Sadomatic Goat Cult is the first Sadomator LP, not a compilation. I have taken samples from different horror and hentai movies, probably from some mainstream movies too, it is long time ago, so I can't really remember all of them. I am not so much into horror movies, I like lot of the old ones, but I thinkk new horror movies is more gore than story, which gets boring with time. I am more into barbarian movies, like Conan and such, I have a large collection of movies like that, there was made a load of them in the 80s, most are not very famous.

MORBIDZINE: Some of your track titles are insane—how did your mind even go there?! For example, "Goatoprosperational Acid"—what’s that song about?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Ehm, I think it was just written while stoned or drunk possibly, it deals with general chaos, so that is also why it is so short.

MORBIDZINE: Goats Brew Alcolust feels centered around masochistic themes mixed with goat fanaticism. Are you into masochism or black magic personally?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: I don't know, I thought the LP mostly dealt with general perversion and drunkeness, I think masochism is fine, I don't practise it myself as a fetish, but it might happen in rituals and such.

MORBIDZINE: Despite renaming to Sadomator, you’ve released some records as Sadogoat. Do you have any plans for a new Sadogoat album?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: There will probably not be anymore Sadogoat recordings, the releases we have had out, after we changed name, have all been recorded before we changed the name, so it came natural to release it as Sadogoat. But actually one album will be out, but it will be a collection of the old demos on a 2LP release by Ancient Darkness. I have no idea when it will be out, I still need to do the layout and all such shit, also I need to gather the songs in deacent quality.

MORBIDZINE: If you were locked in a room with a few nuns and some goats... what would happen?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Depending on how the nuns looked I guess, hahaha, most nuns I have seen are old ladies which I wouldn't touch with a poker, but it would be nice to rape a couple of young and good looking nuns, probably with help from the goats. Maybe there would be a descent.

MORBIDZINE: If you had started playing in the 1980s or early ’90s, which five masterpieces would you have liked to be part of?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: I bagan playing death metal in the early 90s, I think the first band I was in was formed in 1992, but we never did any prober recordings and mostly played cover tracks of thrash and death metal band. I don't know if there is any albums I would have liked to participate on, it all have to be right with time and place. It could have been sweet to have been around to experience the recording of some of the classis, to see how they were done and party.

MORBIDZINE: If I hadn’t known where Sadomator was from, I would’ve guessed North America. What are the supreme influences on Sadomator—not just musically, but ideologically too?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Oh, the band was formed in 1998 and focused on the more bestial black and death metal for influences, musically the influences has changed over the years, but always stayed mainly in the same genre. Some of the bands which influenced us the most from start and untill now has of course been such acts as Beherit and Blasphemy, but we have drawn influence from most of the classic bands of the genre. Lately we have been more influenced by the more obscure and bad sounding demos of bands such as Goat Vulva or Satanic Evil and such infamous acts, I think it is easier to draw influence from very noisy stuff as it suits my mood of writing.

MORBIDZINE: I’ve heard many Danish bands—Mercyful Fate, King Diamond, Artillery, Konkhra, Victimizer, Horned Almighty, Goatfago, and more. Would you say Sadomator/Sadogoat are pioneers of satanic death/black metal in Denmark?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: I wouldn't say that we are pioneers, before us there were many great black and death metal bands in Denmark, but most are broken up now. You should check out stuff like Wolfslair (previously known as Legion), Fallen Angel, Samhain, Batallion or Denial of God. But we are probably one of the largest goat metal, bestial black metal, war metal or whatever genre in the Denmark, after all this genre we play is very limited in bands, so it is not a very hard competition and I think we have gained status for just being around for so long time. I know of many new bands which have been inspired by us, but I think bands quickly look to other influeces when they get more knowledge of the eneral scene.

MORBIDZINE: Are you into the cult hardcore punk/crust scenes of the ’80s? Danish bands like Razor Blades, War of Destruction, and legends from Sweden, Finland, and the UK?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: I am interested in punk and crust too, but I have a very limited collection of that stuff and I don't really know what is good in that scene. I have few albums with Razor Blades and War of Destruction and also few other danish punk albums, but I don't search very much for it, my main record collection consist of metal in all sorts of genres. I would like more punk music though, but I can't buy all the albums I want, it would just be too expensive in the end and I would have no time to listen to it all.

MORBIDZINE: Which festivals are you planning to attend this year? Did you go to NWW, Kill-Town, or Black Mass Ritual last year?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Oh, I have been so slow with the interview that festival season is almost over, this year I have been to Muskelrock in Sweden, Copenhell in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Metal Magic in Fredericia (Denmark), I hope to go to Killtown later this year, but it is in the middle of when I am moving to a new town, so I might not have the time or money, I guess time will tell, but I hope to go I was there last year and it is one of the best festivals I have been to, which is not saying that much as I haven't visited many festivals in the past.

MORBIDZINE: Thanks in the name of all goats, from Morbidzine. Any final words to your true fans?

SEVENTH BLASPHEMER: Look out for my new band Ogdru Jahad. Thanks for the support.