Aborym
Psychogrotesque

Although at first listen it may seem that this album is composed of tracks that are too uniform and apparently monotonous, one quickly realizes that more and more details are added to the main structure, made up of bright guitars, cold and surgical.

All the details create a delirious and morbid nightmare completely in line with the album's concept, an absurd and hallucinatory journey into the depths of the madness of the human soul. After a few listens, the feeling is that everything on this album is necessary and complementary, everything is in its place, a result achieved thanks also to a precise and methodical production that never loses intensity and warmth.

The idea of setting the album almost like a classical work is beautiful, but done in an atypical and modern way, with the tracks connected and blended together in a cyclical, almost doom, and repetitive succession of riffs. The balance and uniformity of the concept album are also accentuated by the choice of titling the songs with single numbers.

After a very "eloquent" intro regarding the narrated theme, the album starts off with a bang, with Bard Faust more dynamic than usual, an impression that also emerges from the choice of more real and natural sounds, and Hell:I0:Kabbalus grinding out cold and often twisted riffs, though not too daunting.

Fabban, for the first time alone as the lead vocalist, does an excellent job, never failing to give expressiveness to the whole with perfect metric choices that often turn out to be catchy.

The use of electronics is a stylistic choice that has always been at the foundation of the Aborym project, and here too, it is absolutely targeted, giving intensity and excellently accompanying the pieces.

The work of all the musicians and special guests who participated, including Giulio Moschini from Hour of Penance, Davide Tiso from Ephel Duath, Karyn Crisis, Pete from Blood Tsunami, and saxophonist Marcello Balena, is excellent.

Probably, this is not the classic album everyone expected from Aborym, or at least it is not purely metal. It’s one of those albums that someone listening again in ten years won't stop rediscovering, noticing details they hadn't before, and this can only be a positive thing.

An absolutely enjoyable and respectable album, which, although not apparently adding anything new to previous works, stands apart from its predecessor by being less thrash death core, but more innovative and old style at the same time, conceptually more mature, and in terms of arrangements; with a production in which no instrument predominates over the others (note that the bass is audible this time and has undergone significant arrangement work).

The beautiful production by Emiliano Natali, who also appeared as a guest, hits the album's target fully, shaping that particular atmosphere that makes this concept album very communicative.

Absolutely, a great CD, which I personally added with real pleasure to my CD shelf. But I believe this holds true for many others beside myself.