ADORIOR
Bleed On My Teeth

According to the Metal Archives, that bastion of all things metal, “Bleed On My Teeth” is the first album from ADORIOR in nearly 20 years. With their previous albums called ”Like Cutting The Sleeping” (1998) and “Author Of Incest” (2005), and other such delights in their small discography, it’s unsurprising that this is a band who deliver some of the most extreme metal around.

I’m not familiar with their previous works, so I’m taking “Bleed On My Teeth” as it confronts me and as my initiation to the band, which is with sheer brutality and explosive power. A combination of death and black metal in equal quantities, there is a machine-gun element to the delivery. The lyrical content is depraved, the lyrics focusing on evil, bloodletting, sacrifices… you get the picture. This is an album that gets under the skin, puts dirt under the nails, forms nasty blisters if approached without care, and has rusted, visceral edges that cause infections and harm.

There is of course a huge thrash metal element that rides beneath the waves of this sheer beast of an album. You can hear huge chunks of Slayer at their most primal, with the guitar work of Stevil Offender and Ro cutting through the air with lacerating precision. The rhythm section, long-serving drummer D. Molestör and bassist TNT Tank are impressive, with the drumming insanely fast and dynamic whilst the bass holds things together.

Regardless of the machine’s parts, it’s the vocals of singer Jaded Lungs who takes the attention, for her delivery is simply astonishing. Ferocious to the point of almost feral, her howls, screams and guttural roars are terrifying. She combines with Stevil’s ‘backing vomits’ to deliver some of the most harrowing vocals heard for years. Songs that strike terror include latest release “L.O.T.P. – Vomit Vomit Vomit Bastard” which is barely under control in parts as it rips and rolls in a chaotic cataclysmic vortex, whilst the following track “The Precipice Of Fire” slows things down, increasing the heaviness and the intensity to the point of collapse.

In fact, there’s rarely a quiet moment on this album. Eight tracks spread over 50 minutes bring the evil into your home. It’s horrific, nasty, aggressive and abusive, blisteringly fast, and at times almost unmanageable. But if you can accommodate the more extreme styles of metal, then “Bleed On My Teeth” will no doubt be one of the most exciting releases of 2024.

Paul Hutchings