ABORYM (Eng.)
– Hi, thanks for your time. What are you currently up to? How is everything doing right now with ABORYM?
Fabban: I’m doing fine, thanks for asking.. Is it true that stress other emotional distress can cause a madness? yes, the answer is yes! We are into the promotion-time of the new album, doing interviews everyday..talking with journalists, radioshows and so on.. but that’s part of the game we play..Things are getting pretty exciting in the band. My doctor said I need some rest.
– Soon your new album, «Dirty», will hit the streets so, what are your expectations on it?
Fabban: I hope the new album will sell good ‘coz I really want to buy a top-notch manor in Venice Beach, LA.. and a new car ehh hehh.. just kidding.. We are all very very satisfied and stoked..and that’s the most important thing for a musician. We have awereness we did something really extraordinary and this album already changed the curse of my life actually…In my opinion, that record stood up to anything else we’ve put out in our career.
– You are one of the few bands that has been playing Industrial Black Metal for over two decades now, anyway I won’t describe your music just as Industrial Black Metal, as you mix different electronic and Metal styles so, could you please tell us what have been some of the most influential bands for the ABORYM’s sound?
Fabban: Aborym just sounds like Aborym.. and we don’t play black metal, but something really hard to describe. I grow up listening to rock, hard rock, death metal, black metal, industrial music and electronic music but we always try to play our own shit without getting influenced by any other bands if possible… We’re an active part of a very private and exclusive club made for few, very few bands that actually can and want to make music without limits, rules and music business dictates.
– On my review I defined this new album as «mature» compared to your previous «Psychogrotesque», both in terms of lyrics, sound and composition but, how do you think has your evolution been since your previous album came out just 3 years ago?
Fabban: “Dirty” can’t be compared with any other albums or any other bands. I think we crossed the point of no return, creating something really unexpected and fuckin’ cool, something that will probably enlarge the range of our listeners and fans. Sometimes when we feel inspired we can lay down a whole song in a couple of 
days, sometimes we can waste a whole week trying to write a single riff without results. It’s very much about inspiration and instinct at first, then we start building up the rest, adding drums, synths, effects, samples etc. until everything sounds exactly how we wanted to. “Dirty” has been written starting from synths and hard disc recording, midi stuff and so on.. and we decided to work like this in order to get the weirdest, coolest, powerfulest Aborym album ever, something really heavy, pyscho and innovative.. e real eye-poppin’ unexpected piece of art.. We strongly wanted our sound to be more cold and modern and at the same time full of weird melodies, arrangements, new ideas and new way to combine different styles and music. This is Aborym.
– As I said, lyric-wise has also been certain improvement, with a real background and a disgusting mood but, would you mind to elaborate a bit on what do lyrics on this opus deal with?
Fabban: Everything that surrounds us is a huge container of shit and piss and this fucking planet is falling apart. I see it this way … Dirty is completely based on that. I wanted to put my ass in something even shittier to get some inspiration…so I decided to go for a month to Los Angeles. There is where I wrote “Dirty” lyrics. They talks about things that happen every day, social catastrophes, crises, civil disorders, diseases, depression, suicide, homicide…real life. I have dealt with issues such as sex, sex frustration, deviantsex, the immoral aspect that quite often the Church blame on sex, pornography and even rapes, as well as pedophile priests scandals. Sex is one of the Earth’s main engines and often one of the main tool for violence, chaos and death. In the album you will find many settings that smell of sex and erotism.
– Talking about such, how an accurate description is the album’s title, «Dirty», of the whole album (lyrics and music)?
Fabban: There is nothing more perfect title like this for this album and its lyrics. It’s completely exhaustive in order to relate about all the shit surroundin all of us. People are going crazy, there are places in the world where hundred storey skyscrapers with roof swimming pools have been built, where during the evening there are parties with strippers, porn divas, drug dealers and famous actors…while there are other places where people starve to death and commit suicide because they lost their jobs. I prefer to face these kind of topics. To feel dirty is a nasty feeling.
– Yourself did the whole cover artwork. Due to this I would like you to tell us how did the whole process go and what did you want to depict with it.
Fabban: I arranged it like this to represent the decadence of perfection. A ultra modern city can be considered as a symbol of civilization, a symbol of wealth and modernity, luxury, sex, money.I thought about flipping this image. Everything we build is somehow destined to sink. Everything goes the other way around.
– «Dirty» has been your first album with Agonia Records after leaving Season of Mist. How has everything been with them so far?
Fabban: It’s a brillant teamwork, they are working very hard for us and I’m very satisfied. I hope they will go ahead this way in future.
– Though Agonia only provided us the first CD, «Dirty» is a double album, the second one featuring some rerecordings; why did you decide to do so?
Fabban: They are old songs, our past.. We are going to play both “Fire Walk with Us” and “Roma Divina Urbs” live too…
– It also features cover of songs by IRON MAIDEN, NIN or PINK FLOYD. Was it easy to choose which tunes did you want to cover? And if you had to choose a couple of other tracks to cover, which ones would you choose?
Fabban: We decided to play tracks of legendary bands in their own way, but light years away from each other. Nine Inch Nails, Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden. We wanted to give our fans a double album so we re-recorded two old song and a song made with material that came directly from our own fans. Our way to say thank you.
– I could say «Dirty» overall explores a little bit deeper your electronic side, having elements form Industrial, SynthPop or Dark Wave, there are even nuances to the 70’s and specially 80’s electronica. Was this something planned or do you just let things flow naturally?
Fabban: We don’t have to please anyone but ourselves and our own taste in music. It comes out naturally actually. We just create and combine. Everything we recorded on Dirty is something we worked very hard for, by studying and analysing every possible solution. And at the end, it looked like something really fucking cool. We have thousands and thousands of sounds and through softwares we manage to modify them and made them sound like we want. All of this is like a real trip,my friend!
– I would even dare say this is your most diverse record to date. Is this something important for you? As I guess beside keeping things interesting for your listener, it may also keep things interesting for yourself, both as musician and composer.
Fabban: This is something basic, something really important for us. We write music for ourselves, and it has a particular meaning for us, although it may be completely different to someone else. If, during the past few years, we dared, we tried some very courageous things, in “Dirty” we went beyond every conceivable scenario and we created new fuckin music for a new fucked up generation. It’s so fucking fascinating for us eh ehh.
– In fact I think you have mixed some of the best elements of earlier albums still without copying yourself. Is what we find on «Dirty» the actual ABORYM’s personality?
Fabban: I can’t answer this one.. I mean.. I really don’t know how aborym will sounds like in future, now we sounds so fuckin’ dirty..
– All songs on this CD are a different world but sharing some similiarities, maybe is just due to the fact you are always looking forward still being loyal to yourself. But all songs manage to provide a different feeling on the listener through different and strong atmospheres. What role do emotions and atmospheres play on this album? How important are both elements in «Dirty»?
Fabban: To write music is something really therapeutic for me.. for us. I mean.. we can express emotions through the music and I think it’s the best way to face the problems. Misfortunes, problems or dramas everyday…but I can always find a place where I feel safe and that place is the music. Sometimes atmospheres play a very strong role in our songs, but it comes out naturally. I love to create harrowing atmospheres, something really tearful or emotional. Music is like our life: its mood always change. Today you feel happy, tomorrow you feel like a zombie, aftertomorrow you feel stoned and fucked up..or gloomy.
– On the album there are also a lot of contrasts, and this time around you have really took advantage of the most extreme elements from both Black Metal and Industrial. Were you looking for leaving a bigger impact on the listener? Was this extreme final outcome how you envisioned the record since the beginning?
Fabban: We simply try to invite or listeners to enter our world, to enter our feelings, our troubled existence, our disturbances, our victories, our defeats, our happines, our sadness or our states of mind through the music and its powerful communicative potency. We don’t want to create a big impact or a slight impact, we 
just would like to create and to feed emotions in the people. Something that can touch the deeper part of their soul, something that can move and vibrate their cords.
– And all this about your new opus being said; how could you describe it in just 3 words?
Fabban: top-notch.. cutting…visionary
– And finally; what are your near-future plans?
Fabban: We need a break from the strict, stressful, busy routine. We’re going to relax a little more. We are going to play live in August, then some gigs in November, December, then we will probably start writing news songs and then we’ll see what happens.
– That’s all, thank you once more for answering our questions. If you want to add some final words; feel free to do it.
Fabban: Thank you so much for this chat… Cya around!
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