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Aborym: Generator

24/03/06  ||  Global Domination

This review was written by ex-staffer/cocksmoker City Of Dis.

I love Aborym. They’re like a classic fairy tale of a band that released a cool debut album, got a ride with some famous vocalist (Attila, from “De mysteriis dom sathanas,” the Mayhem album) and released two critically hailed and recognized albums with the abovementioned fellow as a full-timer, and finally have gotten a spot on Season of Mist, the primo black-metal label. Quite a Cinderella story, huh?

Luckily, the clock hasn’t struck midnight on these fellows yet. “Generator” is another triumph (two drums and a cymbal crash) of a release. Despite not having the strength, energy, or sheer overwhelming manic ferocity of “With no human intervention,” “Generator” manages to stand on its own with an exciting new direction in sound for Aborym. The rest of this review will be hard to read, because I’ll have to type it around Aborym’s collective penis (It’s massive, I tell you).

The production is a-ok: I would have preferred the guitars to have a bit more emphasis in the overall mix, but they work well where they are. Prime Evil’s (it’s as good as you get with black metal names, some of those dudes have the most ridiculous pseudonyms you could possibly think of) vox are screamy and overstated, much like a less melodramatic Attila circa-“With no human intervention.” If he’s also the guy doing the spokenword interludes that pop up in like three songs, then he has a deep cool voice as well, much less lame-sounding than the guy who does that shit on Cradle of Filth’s “Damnation and a day” album. Bard ‘Faust’ Eithun’s drumming is spectacular and a welcome change from the blast-blast-blast-blast-blast-blast-FUCKTHIS drummachine yarble that was present on every other Aborym album. There’s also less of an industrial presence on this album, not to say it doesn’t sound cold and machinelike, because ‘cold’ and ‘machinelike’ are the personality traits that members of Aborym put down on their résumés. The point is, the production is killer and I enjoy it.

The music itself has taken a grand, epic turn… take, say, “A dog-eat-dog world”. It opens with a wash of synth-wind and immediately starts with a slow, repeated riff backed up by subtle keyboard patterns and storm noises. Some dude starts yapping in the background before the wind fades and Prime Evil starts screaming away. The song as a whole is quite a bit more slovenly and involved than the usual Aborym tune, and the synth is much more meticulously laid down. In “With no human intervention,” it had this weird manic ‘on-the-fly’ feel, but here it seems like they agonized over what exactly to do for a while. It fits “Generator,” which reeks of effort to avoid a senior-slump. That’s happened before, look at such turds as Gorgoroth’s “Destroyer” and Meshuggah’s “Nothing.”

But the point is that Aborym avoided that. They deliver a well-played, well-executed, lavishly produced piece of industrial black metal here, and it’s well worth your time.

8 computing errors out of 10.

• Information
• Released: 2006
• Label: Season of Mist
• Website: www.aborym.it
• Band
• Prime Evil: vocals
• Nysrok S Sathanas: guitar
• Malfeitor Fabban: bass
• Bard ‘Faust’ Eithun: drums

• Tracklist
• 01. Armageddon (intro)
• 02. Disgust And Rage (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi)
• 03. A dog-eat-dog world
• 04. Ruinrama kolossal S.P.Q.R. (satanic pollution – gliphotic rage)
• 05. Generator
• 06. Suffer cataclysm
• 07. Between the devil and deep blue sea
• 08. Man bites god
• 09. I reject!

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