Aborym
Generator

When Aborym set out to write the material for their fourth studio album, Generator, two long-time members left the group: Attila Csihar and Set Teitan. The former returned to sing for Mayhem and the latter joined Dissection.
This period of significant lineup changes concluded with two major new additions, singer Prime Evil (ex-Mysticum) and the renowned Bard Faust (ex-Emperor, among others) as drummer.

Aborym entered the Temple of Noise Studios in Rome in April 2005 and recorded the new album, produced by Fabban, Nysrok, and Christian Ice. For the release of this album, they also signed an important deal with the label Season Of Mist. The expectations surrounding this album were immense, both from the most loyal fans, eager to discover these "new" Aborym with a flesh and blood drummer, and from the metal press, both local and international.

On February 21, 2006, Generator was finally released. The new Aborym appeared different, distant from the digital fury and convulsive technology of the previous album, but tremendously darker and annihilating in their new sonic aspect. The songs on Generator seem interconnected by a thread of darkness, evil, death, and gloom. The disturbing artwork by Lorenzo Mariani offers sufficient testimony. A demon, representing negativity, fear, and the horror of modern times, stands imperiously before the sick populace it has generated.
Not a color, only black and gray, smoke and darkness, darkness and pollution, in an imaginary of realistic and everyday violence, closely tied to daily life.

The nine tracks feature new elements of the renewed Aborym-sound, a greater sonic clarity linked to the organic nature of having a real, precise, and technical drummer to set the rhythms, and a singer with a style different from Attila Csihar's, yet terrifically emphatic in the album's most infernal moments and wisely tragic when singing over Fabban's choral backdrops, reminiscent of his experiments with Void Of Silence.
After the brief “Armageddon,” a short Dark Ambient drenched prelude, Aborym immediately unleash the heavy artillery. “Disgust and Rage (Sic Transit Gloria Mundi)” begins steadily and evocatively, with samples of Charles Manson and Faust's volcanic up-tempo blast beats, but a few seconds are enough to reveal Aborym's true face, which lineup changes haven't altered, but rather empowered. Dizzying and aggressive verses, ferocious lyrics and spectral synths blended with icy guitaring.

If "A Dog-Eat-Dog World" is a dark trip through the entrails of a city in ruins, with the very sick spoken-words of Cultoculus (ex-Mayhem) guiding us, it's the Industrial Death Metal of "Ruinrama Kolossal S.P.Q.R. (Satanic Pollution - Qliphotic Rage)", that melts our ear canals with riffs on the brink of Brutal Death Metal and samples born from the most deafening noise, concluding the song's torturous and bloody vortex. The lyrics of this track are special in composition. They were written by Angy from the Italian Impure Domain with William Burroughs's cut-up technique.

Melancholic and painful is the start of the title track, propelled by symphonic backgrounds and Prime Evil's croaking vocals, leading us into the album's second half. Charles Manson's echo is heard again within “Suffer Catalyst”. Faust's nuclear drumming is as perfect as can be in pacing the song's continuous deviations. Drumming that's schizophrenic and brutal yet tremendously Punk and Jazz in the most reflective and sighing moments.

We arrive at the seventh track, “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea,” a true manifesto of the Italian band's courage and what they represent in the history of extreme music. Black Metal commands until a moment… when we hear footsteps, a shotgun being loaded, Prime Evil's voice vanishes… sounds are heard, sounds of what seems to be a rave party. The sounds grow louder and suddenly… a gunshot, into the crowd! An irrepressible acidic breakdown of Techno-EBM mixed with Black Metal ensues… literally chilling.

Artificial beats of “Man Bites God”, the last testimony of Attila Csihar with Aborym, electrify and energize us. The lyrics, written by Faust, combined with the song's earthquaking stride, constitute one of the album's most tension-laden parts. All until the last track, “I Reject!”, closes the game. A sad and deadly arpeggio, and rain in the background, guide us to what is the Aborym manifesto, with a text that is programmatic and explanatory…

[I reject God. I reject your world. I reject your false laws. I reject your son. I reject its pathetic life. I reject your stupid humanity. I travel over again by now, alone… …the covered roads, with my brothers in the eternal battle. The eternal struggle against Christianity. Care behind. Tried to the yield. The resistance ain't futile. Meaningless…]

Generator, the fourth seal of Aborym, is a tremendous display of strength. It is the testimony of a creative, eclectic, different group, with a distinctive and robustly structured sound, that even in this album has changed its skin and characteristics, yet has managed to maintain its sound and musical intents unchanged.

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