ALBUM REVIEW: Adorior – Bleed On My Teeth

Formed back in 1994 ADORIOR remain the most savage Black/Death Metal band from England. Their long awaited third album of desecration is now set for release via Dark Descent Records and Sepulchral Voice Records on September 27th.

Venomous riffing and pulsating drums convulse into life with mangled vocals completing the savage mix. The instant reek of odious sepulchre fills the air with pure metallic discharge. Following from their disruptive and hostile prior works, the immediate recognition of the band Adorior is unmistakable in all of their primal rage. Taking charge of the thrashing, blackened, deathly flames of Heavy Metal in an inferno of blistering evil, the opening of this record is pure devastation and wickedness incarnate. Blending the bestial riffing and artillery-like drums, the musicianship on this record feels like the band at its most refined yet. Of course I mean that in the sense of delivering total viciousness, not the wimpy polished way, like the old school maniacs they are. Despite a slight lineup reshuffling over the last few years, the London-based Wolfpack remain mostly the originals and the newer counterparts have clearly earned their keep with a sadistic and malicious performance from all. Oh the start of this record is a fierce one and if you can’t withstand true decimation, turn back fast…

I could sit here and name check legendary bands like Slayer, Possessed, Mercyful Fate and Sarcofago and you might get some ideas to the pool of influences Adorior invoke. Their sound is definitely one rooted in the 80s Metal mastery, yet their untamed spirit takes it into feverish new hell-scapes which are not simply a tribute to some amazing records, but a forward march into oblivion with their sonic ancestors stood alongside them. If you have seen Adorior live (like I have twice, soon to be three times – flyer for the album launch show at the end), you will know that they deliver an unfettered and unwelcoming assault in every sense that is not just stamped into wax but in the air spewed from their lacerated lungs. This is not just a record but a sonic form of corporal punishment to all posers and weaklings trying to infest the Death Metal underground with their tepid ways and meek outputs. Agonise the dead and take the path of the psycho… Adorior are gonna haunt the chapel, then they’re gonna get ya and have you screaming for vengeance!

From the scathing rain of D. Molestör’s drums to the stringed demonic apparitions of RC, T and S; every note feels like a hammer blow or scythe cut from the beyond. Meanwhile Jaded Lungs remains one of the most intense vocalists ever, spitting blasphemy, violence and carnage with every precise breath. The sense of merciless vengeance in every song is absolute and intoxicating. A band so perverse and visceral is not a simple listen, but those of use who adore these bangers can never be satisfied until we listen repeatedly to their hymns of hatred. I think you readers know the score with me by now, if I tell you a band doesn’t mess around and gives you the real Death Metal spirit til it overflows from your eyesocktets; I’m not lying. Each of these seven offerings are volatile eruptions of extremity like no other and make for a formidable and impeccable listen. The old school bell tolls for the morbid and crazed, hear the call or go back to your overpriced long-sleeves and circle jerking to mediocre posers.

A mental, frenzied, animalistic opus of true Death Metal might. Morbid aggressive passion and total uncompromising dedication to the traditions of real metallic evil are the name of the game here. Adorior uphold the unholy underground triumphantly and as one of the most anticipated new albums of a band in recent memory, “Bleed On My Teeth” surpasses even my heightened expectations. Death to the false, weak and indifferent – true Heavy Metal reigns supreme in the underworld! Don’t break the oath!