ADORIOR – Bleed On My Teeth

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6.5

• Bands:
  LOVE
• Duration: 00:49:40
• Available from: 09/27/2024
• Label:

• Sepulchral Voice

If there are realities out there that can compete for the title of 'true underground cult', we are certain that Adorior would excel without too many rivals: born, raised and nourished by the perverse mind of Jaded Lungs (aka Melissa Gray, voice and the only remaining founding member of the project), Adorior can boast a first album released on the legendary Head Not Found of the legendary Metalion back in 1998, as well as a line-up always made up of members of other groups much appreciated by metal maniacs such as Deströyer 666 and Lvcifyre.
Strengthened therefore by a very respectable CV, today's Adorior gather around the entity of Grave Miasma, another great English band that lends almost all its members to Melissa's new recording adventure. Needless to say, the musical style undertaken does not seem to have changed at all, always centered on a corrosive and incendiary death/thrash, capable of also gathering some black streaks thanks above all to the awkward and biting vocal style of Jaded Lungs, who vomits a series of insults and blasphemies with vibrant and perceptible power and hatred.
Having chosen some of the best English musicians on the market, the singer manages to create a set of songs with a rather high technical level and an impeccable studio performance, which manages to raise the level compared to the two previous full-length albums released dozens of years ago. years ago, but which perhaps risks making the load of the platter too heavy: after one, five or ten listens, nothing will in fact be able to take away from you a perennial and chaotic feeling of bewilderment in front of the eight pieces in the setlist, mainly due to an excess of ideas, solutions and arrangements brutally crammed into the songs.
Take for example “Begrime Judas” or “Ophidian Strike”: both songs are equipped with simply exquisite old-school riffing, which however is literally buried by continuous and monotonous delirious solos, endless drum passages, sudden changes and semi-sounding vocal parts. -omnipresent, which leaves no breath for the underlying music and its power. “Precipice Of Fire”, if possible, increases the madness even more when the aforementioned solos actually end up overlapping with Gray's screams, for results that are, if possible, even more cacophonous and infernal.
It is no coincidence, in fact, that those moments that stand out are precisely those (“Scavengers Of Vengeance”, “L.OT.P. – Vomit Vomit Vomit Bastard”) where a thread of linearity is recovered and where the guitars are allowed to speak with more serenity, but “Moment Of Mania” and the final title track seem to fall back into the musical pandemonium of the other tracks, making listening to “Bleed On My Teeth” in its entirety a titanic and tiring undertaking.
Almost twenty years after the previous “Author Of Incest”, perhaps Adorior have sinned with too much enthusiasm, trying to fit enough material into a single album to be able to fill two: it is therefore sad to have to settle for complete sufficiency in the face of a work which, if left more raw and natural, it could have been a candidate for one of the best old-school metal releases of this musical year.