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REVIEW: Aborym - Fire Walk With Us Scarlet Records, 2001
10/10
Aborym - Fire Walk With Us - cover art Aborym walks a very different path than the rest of the increasing number of bands that mix Industrial, Electronics and Black Metal (DHG, Funeris Nocturnum etc.). At first listen I was a bit doubting about the mixing of this album, it sounded unfinished as there were tons of stuff piled layer on layer and all kinds of noise but after a couple of listens I started thinking that instead of madness this could be the work of a genius.

The album starts with a track humbly named "Our Sentence" and the title pretty much says what this is about. There are a lot of samples from who knows where, ultra-fast blast beating, chainsaw guitars and on top of all that there's the haunting and hypnotic vocals of Attila Chisar, who on this records gives propably the best example of his skills as a "singer"; it's like words wouldn't be enough. What follow is "Love the Death as the Life" wich is one of my personal favourites, the song starts with marching sounds and some weird guitar synth stuff and grows in to black metal orgy. "white space" is the first of the two instrumentals in here and the only song that could have been left out. But that's soon forgotten 'cos the title track is so intense and shows how synths can be used in black metal wisely, and black metal is the key word on this album. I'd dare to say that this albums shows the next level of the genre while others are still clinging strongly to the long gone past and others have gone too far and forgotten what it's all about Aborym have created the album that'll take its place as an masterpiece.

"Here Is No God S.T.A" is a techno track which many listeners propably skip but I'd suggest not to 'cos it deserves to be here as much as any of the other tracks. This album is tight from the artwork and production to song structures and anything that it almost feels like a living organism (if you listen to it at 4 P.M). "total black" is a depressing ode to the blackness of the human mind and causes quite odd reactions on domestic animals if you play it loud, the laughing that goes in and out of audiobility is very unsettling... The second instrumental interlude is called "Sol Sigillum" and does its job nicely, as the song ends on funeral march the mood is set right for the last actual song wich takes its form as a Burzum cover "Det Som En Gang Var", a song that must represent normal black metal and the only track wich has vocals done by Malfeitor Fabban instead of A.C. Great song...

I recommend this album to everyone who's interested in Black Metal and everything "out there". Like the band themselves describe: Aborym performs Alien Black Industrial exclusivly.

written by Paavo Alander

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Tracklist
1. Our Sentence
2. Love The Death As The Life
3. White Space
4. Fire Walk With Us!
5. Here Is No God S.T.A.
6. Total Black
7. Sol Sigillum
8. Det Som En Gang Var
9. Theta Paranoia

Playing time: 51.24

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