adorior sau idealul platonic al metalului extrem

(RO) Adorior e genul de trupa pe care o asculti o data si apoi iti vine sa te iei de oameni la intamplare: “Cum, nu stii Adorior? Ce fel de metalist esti?”. Asa am aflat eu de ei, candva in perioada lor de inactivitate, la inceputul anilor 2010. Nu mai stiu daca in carciumi sau pe internet, replici de genul “Daaa, Adorior, ce cutit erau!”. Ado-ce??? Ia sa vedem.
N-a fost greu. Albumul din 2005, Author of Incest, era mai usor de gasit si nu trebuie sa parcurgi mai mult de un sfert din prima piesa (Hater of Fucking Humans!) ca sa iti dai seama ca ai dat de o chestie speciala. Daca ii intrebi pe multi de idealul platonic al metalului probabil se gandesc la un baiat musculos in chiloti de blana si cu o sabie in mana, dar daca vorbim de idealul platonic al metalului EXTREM ajungem foaaarte aproape de albumul asta. Ce s-ar fi intamplat daca cei din Slayer ar fi crescut ascultand Slayer? Poate nu fix asta dar… pe acolo.
Like Cutting the Sleeping, albumul de debut, este de asemenea excelent si, ca la orice trupa care se respecta, diferit, e mai black metal pentru urechile mele. Singurul motiv pentru care trec asa fugitiv peste el este ca nu avea cum sa ma loveasca la fel de tare cum daduse peste mine Author of Incest. Si uite asa am inceput si eu sa le povestesc oamenilor ce cutit era Adorior, pentru ca, dupa cum ziceam, pe vremea aia nu se mai auzea nimic despre trupa. I-am pus in vitrina, langa sticla aia de bautura buna, si credeam ca aia e.
Numai ca nu era aia. De cativa ani, Adorior exista din nou. Intai am vazut un anunt, apoi au inceput sa apara pe afise, apoi a venit pandemia. Ca un facut, dar de data asta Adorior nu avea sa ramana in trecut. Cine s-ar fi gandit ca ii vom vedea in Romania? Si totusi au rupt scena la Old Grave in 2022. Cine s-ar fi gandit ca vor scoate un nou album? Iata ca in 2024 iese Bleed on My Teeth al carui impact, desi i-am dat zeci de ture, inca nu il pot masura. E tot ce astepti, dar mult mai mult de atat, genul rar de album care te loveste din prima dar peste luni si ani inca mai descoperi lucruri.
Eh, cam asta e raspunsul la “Ado-ce???”. Daca aveti cum, nu ii ratati la Craiova, ca sa le puteti povesti altora, de data asta din experienta personala, live, ce cutit ESTE Adorior.

(EN) Adorior is the kind of band you listen to once and then you start randomly picking on people: “You don’t know Adorior? What kind of metalhead are you?”. That’s how I found out about them, some time during their hiatus, early 2010s. In pubs or on the internet, I got lines like: “Oooh, Adorior, they were deadly!”. Ado-what??? Let’s see.
Wasn’t too hard. It wasn’t too hard to get your hands on the 2005 album, Author of Incest, and it took you all of two minutes (the first track is Hater of Fucking Humans!) to realize you’ve got something special on your hands. Ask anybody about the platonic ideal of heavy metal, they’d probably envision some muscly guy in fur underwear brandishing a sword, but when it comes to the platonic ideal of EXTREME metal, you get something reaaaally close to this record. How would Slayer sound if they’d grown up on Slayer? Maybe not exactly this but… pretty close.
Like Cutting the Sleeping, the debut LP, is equally excellent and of course it is different, I hear way more black metal. The only reason I don’t start waxing lyrical about me is that nothing could have hit me like Author of Incest had. And here we were, at that time I started telling unexpecting people how deadly Adorior had been, because there was nothing going around about the current goings-on with the band. I put them in my dipslay case, so to speak, next to that fancy bottle of booze you get out for special occasions, and that was that.
Only that was not that, actually. For a few good years now, Adorior is a thing again. At first I saw some social media post, then their name started popping up on flyers, and the the pandemic came. Great timing, but this time Adorior wouldn’t stick to being a thing of the past. Who would have thought we’d see them playing in Romania? They killed at Old Grave in 2002. Who would have thought we’d get a new record? I listened to 2024’s Bleed on my Teeth for dozens of times but I still can’t fathom its impact. It’s everything you would have expected and more, it levels you on the first go but you also keep discovering new things months after.
So yeah, this is the answer to “Ado-what???”. If you can, don’t miss their show in Craiova, so you can pester other people, coming from your own direct and live experience this time, how deadly Adorior IS.

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