Italian electro/black metallers ABORYM's fifth album, Psychogrotesque, will be out on November 8th in Europe, November 9th in North America via Season Of Mist and features Davide Tiso (EPHEL DUATH, MANUSCRIPTS DON'T BURN, KARYN CRISIS BAND, PARCHED) and Karyn Crisis (Karyn Crisis Band) as guests among many others. The pair comment on their appearance on Psychogrotesque below:

Davide Tiso: "I have nothing but respect for Aborym. I followed and supported the band since their '99 Kali Yuga Bizarre and I consider Aborym the boldest extreme metal act ever born in Italy. I find remarkable their ability in reinventing themselves album after album. Aborym is a lonely beast in the underground metal forest, and Fabban is a truly visionary leader: I'm proud of what he's reaching with his music. I'm sure Aborym will continue to surprise in the future, this is what they usually do. It has been a pleasure to do a guest appearance in their new album and I'm particularly touched by what Karyn did on those songs. I still have shivers thinking about that one vocal take she did on the album's closing song! I wish Aborym to receive the massive attention they deserve.”

Karyn Crisis: "It's not often that I feel connected enough to someone else's music to want to sing on it. Music is a strange, foreign language to me, yet Aborym's new album was a language I identified with. It speaks a psychological dialect I understand, yet it's at the same time new and surprising. The concept and rhythmic ideas are great, and it's been a very real pleasure to be a part of it.”

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Aborym describe Pyschogrotesque as a “realistic story about the horrific human aridity and its fragile impotence. A social metaphor, uncomfortable but very current, treated cynically by bassist-singer Fabban through a story set in a mental hospital, which suggests that he used his pen with an absolute commitment and the determination to keep off Aborym from the banality and clichés both ideological-aptitudinal and musical that saturate the extreme metal scene.”

Psychogrotesque was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fear No One Studios by Emiliano Natali, with the sound consulting of Marc Urselli (3 Grammy Awards in 2005, mind and founder of Memory Lab as well as sound engineer for artists like JOHN ZORN, LAURIE ANDERSON, LOU REED, ERIC CLAPTON) at the prestigious Eastside Sound Studios in New York.

Psychogrotesque features the now-established three member line-up. Fabban on vocals, bass, synth; Hell:IO:Kabbalus on guitars and synths; Eithun G. Bard on drums (ex-EMPEROR) are joined by a number of special guests and friends: Richard K. Szabo of TWZ, an old acquaintance of Aborym since the days of With No Human Intervention; Narchost (MALFEITOR, DEMON'S SHADE, STORMCROW); Pete Michael Kolstad Vegem (guitarist of BLOOD TSUNAMI and MONGO NINJA); Giulio Moschini (guitarist of HOUR OF PENANCE) and bassist Emiliano Natali (SHOREBORN).