Red Sabbath

Red Sabbath, also written Redsabbath, is a kinbaku teacher and model who works with the Italian rigger Riccardo Wildties in his Kinbaku LuXuria system, a style derived from Naka Akira’s. No biography of Red Sabbath alone has been published; the facts below come from the workshop and event listings of the studios that host the pair.

Teaching with Riccardo Wildties

Workshop hosts present Red Sabbath as Wildties’ partner in teaching and performing. A 2023 listing at Anatomie Studio in London says that with his partner Red Sabbath, Wildties immersed himself in the art and became one of the most sought-out European rope educators and performers, and it names both as the presenters of a three-day Kinbaku LuXuria workshop held there in July 2023. The listing is titled Level 2 and requires prior Level 1 attendance, although its opening sentence describes the workshop as Level 1 Naka style. For 13–15 November 2026 the two are booked for a three-day Level 1 workshop in Lyon, hosted by the teacher Eric Shore and given in French; its description includes guidance for models on breathing, managing pain and processing their inner reactions.

At Subspace in Prague, the pair teach a December 2026 weekend devoted entirely to hashira, tying to an upright wooden pillar. The studio’s description calls hashira one of Wildties’ and Red Sabbath’s favorite ways of tying and says that learning it from Naka Akira was among their first goals when they began following his work; the course combines Naka-ryū ties as revised by Wildties with older fashion ties from the era of Nureki Chimuo. The same weekend they headline the studio’s Shibari Night, in which every act is tied to a pillar.

North America

Heartland Kinbaku in Chicago, which says it has spent about five years building a North American home for Kinbaku LuXuria, frequently hosts Wildties and Red Sabbath for advanced workshops. Its calendar lists Advanced Studies weekends with the two in October 2026, April 2027 and October 2027.

Students and sessions

Red Sabbath is also named as a teacher of the next generation of the style. The biography of the Turin teachers Kurogami and Shiawase says they began studying Japanese bondage at the end of 2016 with Riccardo Wildties and Red Sabbath. In April 2025 Red Sabbath was the model in the closing session of NawaRiccardo-Kai #4 at Subspace, a meeting for Wildties’ students modeled on Naka Akira’s Nawa Naka Kai session series in Tokyo, which its organizers describe as a chance to see Wildties tie different models each time. The 2025 program had three sessions, each followed by a talk: Sansei Sansei with Azrea No Nawa, then Wildties with Anna Noctuelle, and finally Wildties with Red Sabbath.