Credits:

Aborym

Description:

Very rarely does one come a cross a record as difficult to describe as Aborym’s Fire Walk With Us. Just where exactly these Italian maniacs draw their inspiration is anyone’s guess, but at the core of their madness, their songs quote the Scandinavian black metal of bands like Emperor and Mayhem. Not a huge surprise when one discovers that their only non-Italian member is none other than legendary Hungarian vocalist Attila Csihar, who performed on Mayhem’s genre-defining De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas album ten years earlier. Of course when compared to that crucial but ultraprimitive album, Fire Walk With Us has a lot more going on in the finesse department. Almost too much at times, as any attempt at categorization here would be an exercise in futility. Songs like “Our Sentence,” “White Space,” and “Sol Sigillum” eschew old-school black metal’s traditional, analog aesthetic to fully embrace the digital to