Our unit is so tight right now that we don’t need any extra assistance. The next album is going to be all original tunes, inspired by our time working with the Church, but completely separate from it.ĭo you have a dream artist or band to collaborate with, that you have yet to? Is there a limited number of hymns for you to adapt on further recordings or will you be able to continue Sabbath Assembly with music inspired by the Church or similar? If you check out what’s “metal” going back the last nearly 40 years there’s a pretty big variety so we are thrilled to be part of it’s ongoing development. Even though our music doesn’t sound metal exactly, she and our guitarist Kevin Hufnagel (Gorguts, Dysrhythmia) and I were all born and raised on distorted power chords and double bass, so we’d like to think the spirit of metal is in there. And Jamie hates singing about Jesus so we don’t really do that much anymore, ha. Metalheads love Satan, so anytime we sing about Satan they are happy. What kind of reaction have you had from metal audiences? You have performed on stage with several metal bands despite your music having no obvious metallic sounds. Mat and Marja from Hexvessel are total cohorts in the world of ‘holy rock n roll” so including them was an obvious choice, which led to our subsequent tour. Can you describe how some of these came about?ĭaron Beck has been Jamie’s friend and neighbor since they were kids, and we have both been long time admirers of his voice and his band Pinkish Black. There are many guest performances on Quaternity. Now, Jamie and I are in this for the long haul, so we’re really working on a true band dynamic. And Jex was eager to get back to her own project. Restored to One, the album with Jex, was much more experimental in that she and I had been working with a huge variety of musicians in developing the songs, and the recording of the album was almost improvised with a couple of last minute hired-gun jazz musicians. We took months making demos and sending them back and forth to her (between New York City and Texas where she lives), not rushing anything, so we could craft each track carefully, giving them each a unique voice.
This time we built our sound around her we are so grateful to have her in the band. She came in a bit late in the game on the Ye Are Gods recordings cuz the songs were already done, so she had to fit what was there. This recording was specifically crafted for Jamie’s voice. How has she fit into the band and how does her approach differ from previous vocalist Jex Thoth? (If at all) This is the second recording with Jamie Myers. How did the recording of Quaternity come about and how does it relate to your previous two releases? The 4 is more about balance and natural reality, rather than political manipulation. Christianity was more multi-faceted before these guys starting decided who was a heretic and who wasn’t, creating a faux “Orthodoxy.” The idea of four elements is much more pagan, that is close to how nature actually works – solar/lunar, masculine/feminine, four directions, four elements (air water fire earth). These guys were not psychologists creating a balanced and healthy way for people to live rather they were creating an autocratic government that needed a ‘spiritual’ component for validation of authority. The founding Church fathers (they were all men) deliberately left aspects out of the formation of the original Christian doctrines and creeds. I don’t think it does relate to the Trinity exactly. Can you explain a little about the fourth element the nature of evil and how it relates to the Christian Holy Trinity?
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