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. The cover artwork was created by the band's leader Fabban himself - click photo left to enlarge.

The artist comments: "I realised the Pyschogrotesque artwork as I was inspired by the lyrics and the story that are being told in this album, trying to "visualise" the sceneries and the mood of this all... On the cover there is the main character, his look is terrorised and lost. Below, the place where he is annihilated, the place where this story takes place: a mental home, the world where we live. Inside the artwork, I wanted to add some Easter eggs, some tiny particulars with hidden messages... There are few of them scattered everywhere."

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); bassist Emiliano Natali (SHOREBORN); and Davide Tiso (talented musician and the mind behind EPHEL DUATH and KARYN CRISIS BAND).

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