not all the mixed up ones that are
confused with other bands of the time that r getting around
in 1985 Dave Slave met a crazy character
named Rokk at an Iron maiden show at the the Sydney hordern pavillion. Dave noticed
Rokk as he was covered in blood and wearing a butchers apron and spitting at people.
anyhow 2 crazies are better than 1 so they decided to keep in contact as they both had
visions of creating the most extreme/Darkest Deadliest speed metal ever!
1986 Dave and Rokk venture to melbourne to find the right people for the job of playing
Fukking Fast! anyhow after posting up a flier in a shop called pipe imported records
(operated by modern invasion records) they come in contact with a bloke called
Kriss (who was later named...Reverend Kriss Hades by Dave Slave) who was
persistent to show the boys how fast he could play' anyhow Dave was impressed by the
blokes efforts and considered him in the band but wasn't sure if kriss was that interested
and ready at the time. anyhow not long after Dave gets a call from an old friend Sandy who
teamed up with Dave's cousin "Sloth" who was an extremely good drummer.
Sandy mentioned he was looking for a vocalist and bassist??? so Dave and Rokk decided
to move to Sydney and the first Sadistik Exekution line-up was born! after spending months
on rehearsing by mid 1987 the 1st album....the Magus was captured! due to
extreme difficulty of getting a company to release the monster and other pressures
Sandy had left the band and was replaced by first Potential axe man Kriss
Hades, while Dave and Rokk patiently waited till 1990 when the
Magus was snapped up by Vampire records, in 1991 Sadistik exekution played their
first show at a nightclub called Mars and many but few shows followed till 1994 when sloth
left the band and was replaced by...the Mechanic (Steve Hoban)who recorded on 1 track that
ended up on the 94 Osmose Productions release...We are Death Fukk You! which also
contained scraps of recordings the band done in the Sloth Days 86-94). anyhow in 1995 the
band go on a european tour that shokked many! there was too much yelling and screaming
going on as the crowds went mental! this time the drums were played by matt skitz
who was the drummer from Melbourne legends....Damaged. anyhow after the tour sloth ended
up in the band of kaos again and the next osmose 1996 release titled.."Kaos" was
spat out!
this is the most extreme album ever in the history of mankind, it makes previous Sad-ex
sound sooky, it was such a big movement in the world of extreme hardcore deadly Metal that
the band continued to make 2 more albums with similar nature (FUKK & FUKK2) which
were also released by osmose in 2000 & 2004 when the band of Madmen called it quits!
despise a non existent Exekution the boys done a one off reunion show at the
Australian metal awards which was held at fox studios november 2009 which blew minds
away!
Twenty
something years ago Sadistik Exekution were the benchmark when it came to extreme metal.
It's easy these days to look at the never ending roster of black metal around and find
that you've become desensitised to the newest band, supposedly more brutal and extreme
than the last lot. Especially when you can log on and encounter any number of videos,
photos, downloads for a thousand bands. These guys were way ahead of their time. But back
when Sad Ex started it took more than a myspace page for a band to become known. And these
guys really were masters at self-promotion - Rokk, Dave
Slave, Kris Hades, Sloth - who were these shadowy figures? Their flyers, stickers,
t-shirts and demos were everywhere and yet they'd never played a gig. Their distinctive
artwork featuring lead singer Rokk's metallic alien creatures was as unique to Sad Ex as
Maiden's Eddie or Megadeth's Rattlehead. Dave
Slave once gave me a Sad Ex t-shirt that was such an unusual colour that I was forever
confusing it with an oily rag. It was like it had been tie-dyed in scum.
Truth and fiction mix freely in the world of Sadistik Exekution. Stories of mental
institutions, mutilation, serial killers. The sheer speed at which they played. Their love
of the letter "k". It didn't matter if it was true or not as long as people were
talking. TV and magazine interviews followed. And even an appearance on Red Faces.
They'd achieved cult legendary status years before they'd even played a show. Forming in
1986 they didn't play their first gig until June 1991. My band Enticer was on the bill that night at the Mars Club at
Darlinghurst. In fact I have half a memory that it was my idea to try and get them to play
because we'd be sure to pull a massive crowd. I remember that we had a meeting with Enticer, Addictive
and our management and the Sad Ex boys at the Friend in Hand pub at Glebe and nutted out
the details and before you knew it, it was on. About 500 people showed up in a venue that
legally held not nearly that many. And the following week we piled into a bus and took the
show down to Melbourne. That first Sad Ex show was a chaotic, confusing, confronting
experience. Frantic, frantic thrash pummelled your senses while Rokk baited the crowd with
a mutilated doll.
Their hard work paid off. Well maybe not in a monetary sense but they did get a record
deal, distribution and an overseas tour which was more than most bands in Sydney could
dream of. And more importantly their place in the annals of Sydney metal is assured.
