Aborym is an Italian industrial black metal band who refer to their style a… Read Full Bio ↴Aborym is an Italian industrial black metal band who refer to their style as "hard/black alien industrial metal" or something thereabouts. This terminology is met out in its image by its use of extreme pornographic and erotic theatrics, neon corpse paint, and in its music by use of experimental cut up techniques; interspersing, for instance, classical music with extreme noise to create an extremely abrasive but nonetheless extremely charming soundscape that can only be described as alien.
Aborym were originally formed in Taranto, Apulia, Italy, in 1993 by Malfeitor Fabban, then bassist in Funeral Oration and keyboardist for Memory Lab. The band started out as a covers band, playing the likes of Sepultura, Rotting Christ and Sodom, amongst others. Along with Alex Noia (guitars) and Mental Siege (drums), Fabban recorded the first Aborym demo, the five-track Worshipping Damned Souls, in 1993. The band split up shortly afterwards, with Fabban pursuing his other project, Funeral Oration. Fabban however reformed the band in 1997 in Rome, with a new line-up containing Yorga SM on vocals and David Totaro on guitars, who recorded Aborym's second demo (Antichristian Nuclear Sabbath) that same year. In 1999, the band struck a deal with the Italian Scarlet Records to release their first full-length album, Kali Yuga Bizarre. The album featured guest vocals from Attila Csihar, well known in the black metal scene for his work with Mayhem, Tormentor and Plasma Pool, who was to join the band full-time following the departure of Yorga SM. Around the same time, the band added a second guitarist, Nysrok Infernalien Sathanas, of the band Satanikk Terrorists. The album was well-received, with the caveat that was to become their trademark: one has to be open-minded when listening to it.
In 2001 Aborym released their second album, Fire Walk with Us!, with Csihar fulfilling vocal duties and the band including a cover of Norwegian group Burzum's "Det Som En Gang Var". The album was extremely well received; Terrorizer awarded it album of the month with a maximum score of 10/10, commenting, "Most black-heads will hate it, others will be curiously offended by it, and a fearless few will call it their 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." The album also made Terrorizer's Albums of the Year for 2001, at position 39. Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic highlighted the potentially divisive nature of the record, stating: "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."
2003 saw Aborym release With No Human Intervention through Code666 in Europe and Mercenary Musik in the United States. The album continued to expand on the band's experimentation with electronica, with Aborym citing influences from drum and bass, jungle, techno, classical, EBM and industrial. The album featured guest appearances contributions from Bard Eithun, Roger Rasmussen, Matt Jarman (of Void), Mick Kenney and Richard Szabo (of Timewave Zero).
In 2006, Aborym signed with a bigger label in the form of Season of Mist to release their fourth record, Generator. The band underwent further line-up changes, with Csihar leaving after seven years to return to Mayhem, and Totaro moving to Sweden to join the reformed Dissection, and later Watain. Csihar was replaced by Preben "Prime Evil" Mulvik, previously of Mysticum and Amok, and for the first time the band employed a human drummer in the form of Bard G. Eithun, ex-drummer with Emperor and then of Blood Tsunami. Chad Bowar of About.com praised the album's atmospheric elements and the vocals of Mulvik, noting also that Csihar returns to appear on one track ("Man Bites God"). He also commented that whilst the synths had a tendency to make the album sound melodramatic and sterile, the addition of a live drummer helps to alleviate this. In July 2007, Nysrok Infernalien Sathanas, Aborym's long-term guitarist, left the band, stating that his "approach to our way of working, living and thinking" was out of sync with the rest of the band. Mulvik also departed to band to concentrate on other priorities in his life.
In 2010 Aborym became a trio: Fabban, Eithun and new guitarist Paolo Pieri (stage name Hell:IO:Kabbalus). Recording the fifth album commenced on February 20 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 track, which they described as "a harsh sonic monolith of sickness and depravity". The album featured sound consulting by Marc Urselli Shrarer at Eastside Sound Studios, New York. As usual, the album was announced to be featuring a number of guest appearances, in this case Narchost (of Fabban's other band, Malfeitor), and Richard Szabo (of Timewave Zero), amongst others yet to be revealed. In August 2010, Aborym announced that the title of the fifth album was to be Psychgrotesque and was to be released on November 8 in Europe (November 23 in the USA).

The First Four Trumpets
Aborym Lyrics

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"Suonò il primo, e si formò grandine e fuoco mescolati con sangue,
che si rovesciavano sulla terra, e ne fu arsa la terza parte...

La prima tromba fu la sciagura per la terra...

Suonò il secondo, e come un gran monte in fiamme fu scagliato nel mare,
e la terza parte del mare diventò sangue, morì la terza parte delle creature
e la terza parte delle navi fu distrutta...

La seconda tromba fu il cataclisma che si scagliò contro i mari...

Suonò il terzo, e cadde dal cielo una grande stella, ardente come una fiaccola;
cadde sopra la terza parte dei fiumi e sopra le sorgenti delle acque...

La terza tromba annuncia la piaga che deve colpire i fiumi...

Suonò il quarto, e fu colpita la terza parte del sole, la terza parte della luna e la terza delle stelle
Sicché si rabbuiò un terzo di loro e il giorno perse un terzo della sua luce e venne la notte...

La quarta tromba scatena le catastrofi che colpiscono il cielo stellato..."

Vidi ancora e udii un'aquila volare nell'alto del cielo che disse:

"Guai, guai, guai agli abitanti della terra per gli altri squilli di
tromba dei tre angeli che stanno per suonare".

Overall Meaning

The lyrics above are from the song "The First Four Trumpets" by Aborym. The song is inspired by the biblical Book of Revelation, specifically the passage that describes the sounding of the seven trumpets that signify the end of the world. The first four trumpets are detailed in this passage, and the lyrics of the song describe the disastrous events that result from their sounding.

The first trumpet brings hail, fire, and blood raining down on the earth, which burns and destroys a third of the land. The second trumpet causes a great mountain to be cast into the sea, turning a third of the ocean into blood and resulting in the death of a third of all sea creatures and the destruction of a third of all ships. The third trumpet sees a great star fall from the sky, poisoning a third of the rivers and springs. Finally, the fourth trumpet darkens the sun, moon, and stars, causing a third of their light to disappear.

These events are all seen as signs of the apocalypse, heralding the end of the world and the judgment of God. The eagle that appears at the end of the lyrics serves as a warning of even more terrible things to come.

Line by Line Meaning

Suonò il primo, e si formò grandine e fuoco mescolati con sangue, che si rovesciavano sulla terra, e ne fu arsa la terza parte...
The first trumpet caused a calamity on earth which led to a mixture of hail, fire, and blood which poured from the sky and scorched one-third of the earth...

La prima tromba fu la sciagura per la terra...
The first trumpet led to a disaster that befell the earth...

Suonò il secondo, e come un gran monte in fiamme fu scagliato nel mare, e la terza parte del mare diventò sangue, morì la terza parte delle creature e la terza parte delle navi fu distrutta...
The second trumpet caused a fiery mountain to be thrown into the sea, turning one-third of the sea into blood, destroying one-third of the ships and killing one-third of marine life...

La seconda tromba fu il cataclisma che si scagliò contro i mari...
The second trumpet caused a cataclysmic disaster in the seas...

Suonò il terzo, e cadde dal cielo una grande stella, ardente come una fiaccola; cadde sopra la terza parte dei fiumi e sopra le sorgenti delle acque...
The third trumpet saw a great star fall from the sky and land on one-third of the rivers and fountains, causing them to become poisonous...

La terza tromba annuncia la piaga che deve colpire i fiumi...
The third trumpet heralded the plague that was to strike the rivers...

Suonò il quarto, e fu colpita la terza parte del sole, la terza parte della luna e la terza delle stelle Sicché si rabbuiò un terzo di loro e il giorno perse un terzo della sua luce e venne la notte...
The fourth trumpet resulted in one-third of the sun, moon, and stars being struck, leading to a third of them being darkened, and the day losing a third of its light, causing the night to come...

La quarta tromba scatena le catastrofi che colpiscono il cielo stellato...
The fourth trumpet unleashed catastrophes that struck the starry sky...

Vidi ancora e udii un'aquila volare nell'alto del cielo che disse: "Guai, guai, guai agli abitanti della terra per gli altri squilli di tromba dei tre angeli che stanno per suonare".
And I saw and heard an eagle fly up into the sky, saying: "Woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remaining trumpet blasts that the three angels are about to sound!"

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