Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

Who:  Aborted

What:  Eighth studio album of Belgian slam/gore/death metal on Century Media.

When:  April 2014

Where:  Waregem, BEL

Why:   This band is the middle ground between Carcass and The Acacia Strain.

[The Radness Average (or star rating) is derived from assigning each song a number of stars based on a 1-5 scale, then adding the total number of stars, and then dividing that number of total stars by the number of songs on the record. A Radness Average of 4.0 or higher indicates a good or great record. A Radness Average of 2.0 or less indicates pure crap. Everything else is in the middle somewhere.]

Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto - Century Media

1.  Six Feet of Foreplay -- ****
2.  The Extripation Agenda -- *****
3.  The Necrotic Manifesto -- *****
4.  An Enumeration of Cadavers -- *****
5.  Your Entitlement Means Nothing -- *****
6.  The Davidian Deceit -- ****
7.  Coffin Upon Coffin -- *****
8.  Chronicles of Detruncation -- *****
9.  Sade & Eibertine Lunacy -- *****
10.  Die Verzweiflung -- *****
11.  Excremental Veracity -- *****
12.  Purity of Perversion -- *****
13.  Of Dead Skin & Decay -- *****
14.  Cenobites -- ****


Radness Average:  4.786


Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto


Verdict:  More of that Western European mosh/slam/death that you know and love. Beavis & Butthead approved!

For fans of:  Carcass, The Acacia Strain, Devourment, Impaled, Dying Fetus




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RE-UP: Aborted - The Purity of Perversion

Aborted
The Purity of Perversion
Soulreaper



Belgium's Aborted have spent the last decade making a name for themsleves in the global metal scene. They started as an above-average death/grind band and, in the years since, have crafted their own unique sound in the genre. The Purity of Perversion was the LP where things started to get interesting. Read more in the original review.








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Aborted - The Purity of Perversion

Aborted
The Purity of Perversion
Soulreaper




As someone who grew up on a steady diet of Carcass and Cannibal Corpse, gore-soaked death metal is nothing new. It’s certainly nothing shocking, except that The Purity of Perversion treads dangerously close to the line labeled “unacceptable.”

The album’s motif, much less just the imagery, is inspired by grizzly Central American urban gun battles. As is clearly labeled on the CD case, this is NOT for the weak. It makes Matando Gueros look like a Christmas card. Aborted is the first band since Brujeria that made me do a double-take. If nothing else, Aborted should be commended for creating something exceptional during the (almost inexplicable) late 90s gore-grind glut.

Oh, what about the music, you say?

Exceptionally well-played death/grind is what’s going on here. Crushing Morbid Angel-style sludge, lightning-quick blast beats and even some melodic passages (think At The Gates, not In Flames) can be found on The Purity of Perversion. Then there are those breakdowns.

These are not hardcore breakdowns at all. These are well-written, well-executed and are often in the same key as the rest of the song; something you rarely see in hardcore, unless you count Earth Crisis-style, open E imbecility. No, these breakdowns are more akin to what Obituary and Bolt Thrower were doing in the late 1980s.

Looking back on it now, you’d have to be deaf not to hear what Century Media saw in this band. If you are at all into death metal, you need this.

Here's a video tour report with Aborted from the Summer Slaughter tour.









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