Black Shabbis

Black Shabbis
Studio album by Jamie Saft
Released	2009
Recorded	2008, Electric Plant Studios, Brooklyn
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	59:08
Label	Tzadik TZ 8133
Producer	Jamie Saft
Jamie Saft chronology
Merzdub (2008) Black Shabbis (2009) A Bag of Shells (2010)

Black Shabbis is an album by multi-instrumentalist Jamie Saft which was released on the Tzadik label in 2009. The extreme metal album examines a number of antisemitic concepts and incidents throughout history.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

In his review for Allmusic, Thom Jurek notes that "Black Shabbis is not for everybody, not even some Saft fans necessarily, but it is a powerful, excellent work that uses the metal genre well -- expertly even -- and will convince headbangers of its essential importance as one of the voices out there that stands tall and defiant in the face of much of the anti-Semitism that is promoted by some black and death metal bands. For everyone else, it is an angry howl of both pain and resistance whose anger is carried beautifully as the artist's ultimate weapon: his imagination and creativity to provoke, to give pause and reflection".^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Jamie Saft

1. "Black Shabbis - The Trail of Libels" - 2:41
2. "Blood" - 2:55
3. "Serpent Seed" - 3:41
4. "Der Judenstein (The Jewry Stone)" - 9:05
5. "Army Girl" - 6:43
6. "King of King of Kings" - 4:52
7. "Kielce" - 13:53
8. "Remember" (Lyrics by Vanessa Saft) - 6:36
9. "The Ballad of Leo Frank" - 8:58

Personnel

• Jamie Saft - guitar, bass, vocals, organ, synthesizer, Mellotron
• Trevor Dunn - bass (tracks 2-7)
• Mike Pride (tracks 2-7), Bobby Previte (track 9), Dmitriy Shnaydman (tracks 4 & 8) - drums
• Mr. Dorgon (track 7), Vanessa Saft (track 8) - vocals

References