Aborym are a symbol in the industrial black metal scene.
This band can be confused as an anonymous one, but it is composed by some protagonists of Norwegian black metal such as Faust and Attila and also by Sethlans Teitan, who will become the guitarist of Dissection and Unanimated years later…not bad uh? All these talents reunited to form an innovative industrial black metal band. Their first album it is the proof. As the title says, it is bizarre. The band will often use stanzas in poetic Italian that fit greatly, in my opinion.
I think that the best track is the fourth one, Roma Divina Urbs. It begins in a strange way: you can think that you stumbled into a folk/power album, but that’s not the case because when the medieval intro ends, a powerful scream blows. The drum machine begins to pulse and the keyboard does its best to create an ancestral and majestic atmosphere. The chorus makes you think of thousands of people sitting in the Coliseum, calling loudly for blood and violence, but at the same time proclaiming the powerful city in the world (in the Classic age, of course). In the second half of the song, it begins the so awaited verse in Italian, a real poem about the fall of Rome due to a general looseness. You can imagine the chaos and the madness spreading all over regions of the Empire, caused by the wrath of the Roman Gods, punishing the population for their sloth. When the strophe ends and you are totally absorbed by the poem, a desolate guitar solo starts and definitively kills you.
The album changes style in Tantra Bizarre, the electronic song of the album, and is so aggressive that the rhythm and synth effects possesses you, making you feel like you're in the middle of a rave party.
Come Thou Long Expected Jesus is the strangest song of the album. Even listening the track again and again and hearing what it said, I still can’t understand what it wants to communicate. Maybe nothing, or maybe it has such a profound meaning and I’m too dumb to realize it.
Another change of genre takes place in Metal Striken Terror Action. Tocals are deeper than the first songs, and I could say that they remind me of some death/thrash metal bands. The band will make a sort of second part of this song in the famous full-length With No Human Intervention, but it will be very different from the original one.
In conclusion, it's a strange album where the style switches from industrial black to pure electronic music to black metal with mythological themes. I think that the main concept of this album is the end of things, which can be suicide in Metal Striken Terror Action, the apocalypse in The First Four Trumpets, or the end of an age in Roma Divina Urbs. This album is certainly a milestone of industrial black metal.
Sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgMJrsanwo4&t=34s
