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Title: Fire Walk With Us
Artist: Aborym
Label: World War III Music
Release Date: 10/9/01

Rating: 2 Skulls
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    • Reviewed by Behemoth (3/20/02):
    Well, by my best-educated guess, this band derives its name from the term "abominate," i.e., the omen to hate or loathe intensely. This is the second album for this crew, promoted to disintegrate your soul. Now that may be true-- simply out of sheer boredom, that is. Skip to track four for the disc highlight, "Fire Walk With Us;" listening to the rest is equivalent to 'the song remains the same.' Claiming to be the ultimate avatars of diabolical indignation, I digress, this is not my father's Black Metal. "Worship the fire in the age of fire," now that is original, perhaps a good horror movie soundtrack? This may be Black in the essence of morbidity and tone, but not blistering metal or blood-curdling screams to make this effort worthy of thy blessing. A preponderance of dreary keyboards with shamanic chanting is surely a match for a night of insomnia. The world is an ugly and stagnant place but listening to this record will not cure the black evil ever present. Aborym appeared focused on delivering a concept-based album that invokes visions of a nether world, but the music leads in a dark, fuzzy, industrial direction. Production is often murky and struggles to feature the heavy and dark notes; few aggressive riffs of any complexity are present.

    Their latest effort is via Mercenary Musik, with distribution by WW III Records. The songs are well structured but often monotonous and repetitious. Featured spins include "Def Som En Gang Var" and the epilogue track (sounds like crickets on acid) "Theta Paranoia." Hailed as an amazing revolutionary album that is destined to become a benchmark-- I don't think so. The unholy chants are somewhat interesting as hymns to the fire demon, but the overall lack of diversity and creativity on this record dooms it to the cut out bin. Perhaps their forthcoming Better Dead Than Alive release will breathe new life into this dead corpse.
    2 out of 5

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