Why medieval music?
Normally bands would cover classic rock songs in order to make them sound modern, to give them something they belive wasn’t possible to achive back when the originals were recorded. We were determined to have it the other way round. We were kind of playing with the idea that our versions were the originals, some unknown songs from the middle-ages that Black Sabbath found and recorded centuries later. The other goal was to explore connections between rock and early music. In fact they are not as different as many would expect. By taking these Black Sabbath songs back in time we wanted to prove that the word “power” is very often misunderstood. It’s not always a massive wall of sound that makes music powerful. There can be a lot of energy in just one person singing. All songs are sung in Latin on “Sabbatum”. Why? Medieval music sounds more authentic in Latin. I guess this is one of the main stereotypes of early music but we didn’t see any substantial reason to have it any other way. Our
