#004 - Aborym

Industrial black metal from Italy strengthened with some Norwegians. Previously they used drum machine, but nowadays their drummer is Faust who is best known for his work on early Emperor albums. They've had also Attila Chisar (known his work on De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem) on their line-up previously, so Aborym's "black metal credibility" is quite OK.

I've actually always thought that Aborym is just pure black (or death) metal. In practise their sound is really mostly black metal, but they seem to use also lot of industrial sounds. But this is anyway "too black" for me. There's not enough variations in the somgs either for my taste. There's some nice things definately. For example Chernobyl Generation from With No Human Intervention album is really nice little industrial piece.

Here's one sample from their latest album Generator released in 2006.


Their fifth album is also coming this year. Their Myspace pages tells that "they will enter the studio again the 19th of February. This new opus will be a concept consisting of only one track, a harsh monolith of sickness, violence and depravity."

Some links:
http://www.aborym.net
http://www.myspace.com/aborym666
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aborym
http://www.last.fm/music/Aborym
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2PCSfHYHZ87Wcf5GfYi3qF

#001 - ...and Oceans

Lets start from the beginning of that list. Order is alphabetical, so we will start with Finnish band called ...and Oceans. This band is somewhat familiar to me already earlier, but since bands the roots are in black metal, which I'm not that keen on, haven't actually checked their stuff earlier. I knew they have some industrial elements in their music in the latter part of their career.

The band was active between 1995-2006 and released five albums during that time. On industrial-wise I'd say they reached their peak on A.M.G.O.D.  and Cypher albums. Unfortunately Spotify is not having those albums in their lists (at least at the moment, it seems that Century Media hasn't put their catalogue available in there). But Spotify has their last Season of Mist album The Symmetry of I - The Circle of O , which already shows some real industrial interest on the second part of the album. Dark and depressive sounds are getting closer the ambient genre, but it really is powerful stuff.

But the overall sound of ...and Oceans is not that ambient stuff that can be found on that album. from this video you can more like "the sound of ..and Oceans" in the latter part of their career.You can actually find quite a lot of music from those last two albums from Youtube.

Aphid: Devil Flower: Fruits of Lunacy from their last album Cipher (2002)



...and Oceans later became band called Havoc Unit which we will check later also. They have actually released a split EP with ...and Oceans, that's strange.


Some links:
http://www.myspace.com/andoceans1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...and_oceans
http://www.last.fm/music/...and%20Oceans
http://open.spotify.com/artist/0rWmH68lIyVOGYhhvayFzu