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Fire Walk With Us
Aborym
Mercenary Musik / World War III Records, 2001
REVIEW BY: Christopher Thelen
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 06/27/2002
Ahh... so this is what Ministry might sound like if Al Jourgensondecided to practice the Black Arts.
Fire Walk With Us, the second release from Italianindustrial/death metallers Aborym, is not your typical music forthis genre. Sure, you have the musicians who look like they werejust made up for a match hosted by the WWE, supposedly singingpraises to Satan and all that is unholy - I guess that's the case,since I couldn't make out a single word Attila Csihar screamedthroughout this disc. But the overall feel goes for a moretechnical bend than all-out mayhem, including what seem to besynthesized drums. Honestly, I can't imagine any human alive beingable to keep up the frantic beats which are heard throughout thisdisc for this long.
Yet Fire Walk With Us often sounds like unfinished business;there are times when one really wishes they'd hear the band totallycut loose, only to have layered keyboards continue to fill whatmight otherwise be dead air. Add to the mix a formula which growsstale pretty quick, and you have an album which is meant for onlythe diehard fans of this genre.
Even there, it's hard to exactly pinpoint who this disc istargeted at, since Aborym is definitely carving out their ownunique niche here. While there are the necessary requirements toqualify this as classic speed/death metal, the heavy reliance onsynthesizers gives this music a whole different feel. Even from thefirst track, "Our Sentence," the listener knows that this is notyour typical death metal.
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