Aborym - With No Human Intervention
Code 666

Evil Dr. Smith: I am so filled with visionary pride I have a good mind to change my name into “Nostradamus”. When reviewing the 2nd Aborym album (‘Fire Walk With Us’, January 2002) I already indicated the band would fit Italian label Code666 perfectly. Now we have their 3rd CD, and what has happened? Indeed! Aborym left Scarlet and moved to Code666. Think they read my review? Hahahaha. Enough sticking feathers in my own arse for the moment, though… what about this 3rd Aborym album?

Those familiar with Aborym will know they can expect inaccessible, extreme Black Metal and weird electronic attire. And those expectations are prove fulfilled by Aborym, but there is more. Different from their good, yet less spectacular, predecessors ‘Kali Yuga Bizarre’ and Fire Walk With Us’ is the disturbing and frightening effect of this album. A short intro and then all hell breaks lose with title-song ‘With No Human Intervention’, this is sheer Black Metal TERROR! Throbbing aggression spills its explosive madness and satanic craze like there is no tomorrow. Cunningly fast Black Metal with a certain almost post-modern, Terminator-ish, edge thanks to the use of electronics. I deliberately refrain from using the term keyboards here, that is automatically associated with “mellow” , and it is far from that! Other Industrial Black Metal CDs have hit the shops over the last couple of years, but none so incredibly Hellish as this one by Aborym. Take the intensity of War, the electronic drive of The Bezerker and Takke’s Black Metal-passion…and maybe, only maybe, you will get something slightly similar to Aborym. Singer Attila Csihar (ex Mayhem, Tormentor) is a kind of Beelzebub himself. Prattling, screaming, growling with twisted, distorted voice his diabolical cyber-poetry rages over the Black Metal chaos. It is not until the 5th tracks that the listener is allowed to come up for air, only to be left gulping at the fucked-up drum’bass of ‘Does Not Compute’. HELP! Out of the hellish Black Metal abyss into the twisted techno-jungle of Aphex Twin and Squarepusher! Daring! And Aborym get away with it perfectly! ‘Does Nor Compute’ has an omnipresent dismal effect. Soon after they stick the red hot poker back into the hellish fire with ‘Faustian Spirit Of The Earth’. As the album thunders on the music’s tone slowly changes. The Album takes an hour so it is quite a smart move to easy up a little. 60 minutes of relentless Black metal-tornado would weaken its impact, Aborym cleverly thought and filled the second half with equally pure Black poison, but different in structure. Samples, drum computers and other gadgets become more prominent (‘Chernobyl Generation’s Hardcore-House is overdoing it a bit though) and the tempo becomes more varied. There is even room for the odd genre-integration attempt. Halfway through cyber-black-thrash ‘Digital Coat Masque’ we find a nice Mozart- harpsichord-tune and in ‘The Triumph’ we find (not unlike band The Wicked did) a bit of the old barrel organ, accompanied by the sighing and panting of sexual stimulated ‘sister of mercy’ (and I don not mean the band). Thrashy ‘Alienation Of A Blackened Heart’ provides a noticeable Venom/Sodom-ish closing track followed by a short outtro before we reach the CD_ROM part: A biography (scroll button doesn’t work!) and a videoclip (file won’t open! Me being clumsy, or not a result of my shortcomings for once?)

This album is utterly destructive! The music equals a gross of suicide-Palestinians using weapons-of-mass-destruction from North Korea to blow up Manhattan! What did they call it again on Carnivore’s debut album? “Thermonuclear warrior” and “ World Wars III and IV”! Well, you can call this the post-apocalyptic soundtrack of the Armageddon, and Aborym is devilishly pulling all the strings.

Evil Dr. Smith diagnoses: 87/100

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