Aborym

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Aborym
General information
origin Taranto , Italy
Genre (s) Black metal , industrial metal
founding 1993, 1997
resolution 1993
Website www.aborym.it
Current occupation
Malfeitor Fabban
Paolo "Hell: I0: Kabbalus" Pieri
former members
Yorga SM (1997-1999)
Attila Csihar (1999-2005)
Preben "Prime Evil" Mulvik (2005-2009)
Alex Noia (1993-1998)
David "Set Teitan" Totaro (1997-2005)
Nysrok Infernal Sathana (1998-2007)
D. Belvedere (1993-1998)
Bård G. "Faust" Eithun

Aborym is an Italian / Norwegian black / industrial metal band, which comes from Taranto , Apulia in Italy . The band describes their music as "Alien-Black-Hard / Industrial", allmusic as " futuristic Black Metal with rough samples, electronic drums and hints of industrial , which makes it difficult to pin down the band's striking music style to a genre, or exactly define". The band's name is derived from Haborym Sadek Aym , the overseer of the twenty-six legions of Hell in a 17th century grimoire .

history

Early Years and Kali Yuga Bizarre (1993–1999)

On the Myspace page in the version of March 22, 2009, 1993 is given as Aborym's founding date, the biography on Agonia Records says 1991; According to this, the original line-up consisted of Fabban, who at that time still played as bassist in Funeral Oration and as keyboardist in MEMORY Lab and initially covered pieces such as Beneath the Remains by Sepultura , The Old Coffin Spirit by Rotting Christ and Agent Orange by Sodom . Together with Alessandro Noia on guitar and Daniele Belvedere from Mental Siege on drums, Fabban recorded the first demo worshiping Damned Souls in 1993 , which consisted of five songs. The band split shortly afterwards and was re-founded in 1997 by Fabban in Rome . The second demo Antichristian Nuclear Sabbath was recorded with the new members Yorga SM and Sethlans . In 1999 the band finally signed their first recording contract with Scarlet Records , where they released their first full album, Kali Yuga Bizarre ; there Attila Csihar , known for his work with Mayhem , Tormentor and Plasma Pool , appeared as a guest singer. He then became a full member of the band, and Nysrok also joined Aborym as the second guitarist. In 1998 or 1999 Set Teitan founded the band Bloodline with Sasrof von Diabolicum .

Fire Walk with Us! (1999-2002)

In 2001 Aborym released her second album Fire Walk with Us! . Csihar wrote the lyrics for the band and a cover of the song Det som en gang var of the Norwegian project Burzum can be heard. The album was very well received by the scene; Terrorizer named the album “Album of the Month” and gave it the best possible rating of 10/10, with the comment: “Most black-heads will hate it, others will be curiously offended by it, and a fearless few will call it theirs own and use it as their very lifeblood. You can almost see the majority snicker at Aborym's psychedelic time-travel-meets-corpse-paint image, but these visuals serve to underline specifically where band and record belong: the outer reaches of the cosmos. ”In addition, it was also called“ Terrorizer's Album of the Year 2001 "voted 39th. Allmusic's Eduardo Rivadavia highlighted the discordant nature of the album by saying, “Is it any good? Well, it really comes down to how the listener positions himself along the digital divide. Those who prefer their metal stripped down and straightforward will likely find Aborym too industrial and chaotic. Yet for fans of truly unique new directions in metal, Fire Walk With Us is a full-course meal. "

With no Human Intervention (2003-2005)

Since Aborym had problems with Scarlet Records, got no information about the sales of the albums and Scarlet began to sign numerous bands of every direction from Black Metal to Power Metal , the band switched to Code666. Aborym's third album was released in 2003, in Europe through Code666 and in the US through Mercenary Music. The album continued the band's experiments with electronica , adding influences from drum and bass , jungle , techno , classical music , electronic body music and industrial . Richard Szabo, Mick "Irrumator" Kenney ( Anaal Nathrakh , Frost ), Matt Jarman, Roger "Nattefrost" Rasmussen ( Carpathian Forest , Nattefrost ) and Bård G. "Faust" Eithun (Ex- Thorns , Ex- Emperor , Blood Tsunami ) guest appearances on the album. The album also won again the title "Album of the Month" in Terrorizer magazine, whereby Stuart Banks said: "With No Human Intervention shows a band pulling out all the stops to push the extreme and avant garde to new depths and quite frankly, making it look easy. ”Son Serba from allmusic, however, criticized:“ Bottom line, Aborym is easier to enjoy in theory more than in practice, although tackling the group's wildly disturbing sonic art isn't without its rewards. ”In a review published in 2009 Ciaran Tracey reflected on Black Metal:

"The fact remains, though, that most bands wishing to transcend the archetype of bee-in-a-biscuit-tin guitars haven't actually been that radical. Take for example Aborym's 'Fire Walk With Us!' (2001) and 'With No Human Intervention' (2003), which were both met with rapturous reception on account of their cold processed extremity. Although resplendent in a sort of cyber-black metal, UV glowing, post-apocalyptic chic borrowed extensively from contemporary goth club culture (including the drugs), the music was more or less decent BM made a bit more digital by overtly computerized drumming and a liberal smattering of samples. "

After the album was released, the band played at the Inferno Metal Festival Norway in 2004 . Eithun played as a guest drummer on the song Alienation of a Blackened Heart .

Generator (2006-2009)

In 2006 Aborym signed a recording deal with the Season of Mist label to release her fourth album, Generator . There were also some changes in the band's line-up. After seven years of membership, Csihar left the band to return to his previous band Mayhem. Sethlans went to Sweden to join Dissection (under the name Set Teitan) ; he now plays as a live member of Watain . The place of Csihar was filled by Preben "Prime Evil" Mulvik, who had previously participated in Mysticum and Amok. Additionally, Eithun became the band's drummer. About.com's Chad Bowar praised the atmospheric elements and vocals of Mulvik, noting that previous band member Csihar appeared in a song ( Man Bites Dog ). He also says that the use of synthesizers in the past has resulted in a more melodramatic and sterile sound in the albums, but that the addition of a real drummer can reduce that fact. In July 2007, Nysrok Infernalien also left the band, saying that his approach to working, living and thinking was no longer compatible with the band. Mulvik also left the band to focus on other priorities.

Psychogrotesque (2010 - today)

In 2010 Aborym became a trio: Fabban, Eithun and the new guitarist Paolo "Hell: I0: Kabbalus" Pieri. Recordings for the fifth album began on February 20th at Fear No One Studios in Montefiascone , Italy, under the supervision of sound engineer Emiliano Natali. The band announced that the album would consist of a single song, which would be a "harsh acoustic monolith of disease and depravity". The album is also being recorded with the advice of Marc Urselli Shrarer of Eastside Sound Studios in New York. As with the previous albums, Psychogrotesque will have several guest appearances by various artists, such as B. Narchost (member of Fabban's other band, Malfeitor) and Richard Szabo (Timewave Zero). Aborym announced that the album's name will be Psychogrotesque and that it will be released on November 8th in Europe and on November 23rd in the US. The band describes the album as a “realistic story about the horrific human aridity and its fragile impotence. A social metaphor, uncomfortable but very current, treated cynically by bassist-singer Fabban through a story set in a mental hospital, which suggests that he used his pen with an absolute commitment and the determination to keep off ABORYM from the banality and clichés both ideological / aptitudinal and musical that saturate the extreme metal scene. "

Style and background

The band initially played "pure" Black Metal and later began to mix Black and Industrial Metal elements. The main influences on Myspace are Mysticum , Beherit's early work, and generally old Death / Thrash / Black Metal bands such as Mayhem , Possessed , Sarcófago , Soothsayer , Obituary , Carcass , Coroner , Celtic Frost , Messiah , Emperor , Venom , early Sepultura -Releases, called Morbid Angel and Kreator , but the band have created their own style for which they use the term "ABORYM nekro-sound". With Generator , the electronic elements decreased, the structure of the music became more linear, and Aborym's style seemed to move towards a more symphonic, epic sound. The album Psychogrotesque, on the other hand, has more dissonant riffs, a stronger use of electronica and synthesizers as well as a “more direct, uncompromising and poisonous sound”. According to exclaim.ca's Laura Taylor , the listener has to be unbiased in order to fully appreciate a work like Kali Yuga Bizarre . Digital Goat Masque from the album With No Human Intervention contains a passage from a baroque composition by the Italian composer Scarlatti , who was said to be in league with the devil, the thrash-heavy The Alienation of a Blackened Heart is set Teitan's tribute to Venom, Bathory and Hellhammer as the roots of Black Metal.

The lyrics of the debut album contained numerous allusions to Hindu mythology, but were "more psychotic and sick [...] than satanic". On their former website, the band referred to Satan and used the self-names as "Satanik Elitistik Black Metal" and "reincarnated Satanikkk disaster". Set Teitan is a Gnostic and during his time at Aborym explained that the music he composes, “or, to put it better, that is dictated and uses me as a tool, does not come from a human sphere, but from the transcendental current that I am and whose tool I am, as I said ". He spoke out against the religions of the path to the right hand, which worship the demiurge , the creator of the cosmos, and want to live in harmony with the cosmos. However, whoever, like himself, carries the legacy of chaos in his soul, is in opposition to the whole. Accordingly, Jon Nödtveidt saw him as a suitable member for his band Dissection, in which only Satanists should play. In the past, Aborym resorted to an aesthetic known as the "cross between cyberpunk and black metal." In the meantime, the band is performing in a metal-untypical way and justifies this by not feeling part of any movement or scene, and above all wanting to free themselves from old clichés and a certain type of audience that has nothing to do with music, such as “Politicians , alleged Satan worshipers and all these mentally unstable people who inevitably circle the world of extreme metal ”. Fabban explains that occultism was one of the things he had seriously and deeply studied, but was no longer interested in it.

Discography

Demos

  • 1993: Worshiping Damned Souls
  • 1997: Antichristian Nuclear Sabbath

Albums

  • 1999: Kali Yuga Bizarre (Scarlet Records, SPV , MAB Records)
  • 2001: Fire Walk with Us! (Mercenary Music, Scarlet Records)
  • 2003: With No Human Intervention (Mercenary Music, CD-Maximum , Code666)
  • 2006: Generator ( Season of Mist , CD maximum)
  • 2010: Psychogrotesque (Season of Mist)
  • 2013: Dirty ( Agonia Records )
  • 2017: Shifting.Negative (Agonia Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Serba, John: With No Human Intervention review . Allmusic . Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo: Aborym biography . Allmusic . Retrieved August 11, 2010.
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  5. ↑ a b A BORYM (official). Myspace, archived from the original on March 22, 2009 ; accessed on April 9, 2012 (English).
  6. ↑ a b c d e Biography 1991-2011. (PDF; 2.5 MB) Agonia Records, accessed on April 9, 2012 (English).
  7. ↑ Let the Hate Procession begin! July 23, 2009, accessed January 14, 2010 .
  8. ↑ Dufaq: Interview with Bloodline. November 9, 2009, archived from the original on December 14, 2011 ; accessed on May 2, 2019 .
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  10. ↑ Birk, Nathan T. Terrorizer # 95, page 60, December 2001.
  11. ↑ Unknown. Terrorizer # 96, page 69, January / February 2002.
  12. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo: Fire Walk With Us! review . Allmusic . Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  13. ↑ Banks, Stuart. Terrorizer # 107, page 58, March 2003.
  14. ↑ Tracey, Ciaran. Terrorizer's Secret History of Black Metal , Black Metal's New Wave , pp. 78-81. September 2009.
  15. ↑ Inferno Metal Festival official site . Inferno Metal Festival Norway . Retrieved February 22, 2012.
  16. ^ A b Bowar, Chad: Generator review . About.com . Retrieved August 12, 2010.
  17. ↑ Aborym: Official Myspace biography Aborym . Myspace . Archived from the original on March 22, 2009. Retrieved on August 11, 2010.
  18. ↑ ABORYM Is Back . Blabbermouth.net . Archived from the original on September 12, 2012. Retrieved May 2, 2019.
  19. ↑ a b Ingo Spörl: Aborym ( Memento from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). In: Legacy , No. 1, accessed September 27, 2012.
  20. ↑ a b c Aborym - Avant-garde As Intellectual & Artistic Anarchy! .
  21. ↑ Taylor, Laura: Kali Yuga Bizarre review . Exclaim! . Retrieved December 13, 2011.
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  23. ^ Aborym official website. Archived from the original on March 10, 2009 ; accessed on October 4, 2012 .
  24. ↑ INTERVIEW FOR THE FANS BY THE FANS. - Final Interview with Jon Nödtveidt -. www.dissection.nu, archived from the original on October 20, 2007 ; Retrieved on September 3, 2012 (English): "It was a long process and there were quite a few obstacles in the way ... too numerous to mention but my goal was to find a line up that would share the same visions as myself in terms of using the music of dissection as a black magical tool. So, therefore I only wanted Satanists in the band ... and consequently the old members were out of the question. And having set up this goal, I didn't make things easy for me. But this was the only way to go and I was convinced that it was just a matter of time until I would find the right members. [...] auditioning several guitarists in the summer of 2004 we finally found a set. When he finally came over from Italy we knew immediately that the search was over. The energy and spirit he radiated at the rehearsal as well as personally made it all very easy for us; he had to be in Dissection! I had been in touch with him for quite some time via mail but it wasn't until he came over to Sweden that we got to know each other for real. Set has proved to be one of the most determined persons, as well as coolest, that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and we have been standing by each other as brothers since. As a guitar player, he channels the current like no one else and has been evolving immensely! With Set joining Dissection the line up was finally complete and the band was getting ready for the Rebirth. We just had to await my release from prison to take place. So in the meantime, the line-up rehearsed intensely without me on a daily basis for the next two months, with me joining in on my short leaves. "