Strychnine.213

Aborted | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 2008)
• Original Release Date: 2008
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B00197U094
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #94,529 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Carrion

2. Ophiolatry on a Hemocite Platter

3. 135

4. Pestiferous Subterfuge

5. The Chyme Congeries

6. A Murmur in Decrepit Wits

7. Enterrement of an Idol

8. Hereditary Bane

9. Avarice of Vilification

10. The Obfuscate

Editorial Reviews

2008 album from the Belgian melodic Gore/Grind Metal masochists. Shoving a dirtied, well-placed syringe straight through the heart of expectation, Aborted further remove themselves from the Carcass homage of old on their sixth release . While most bands are content releasing the same record every other year, this international collective prefers to strike a rare balance between maturity and experimentation, honoring a legacy of brutal Death Metal and Grindcore while progressing toward something slightly less classifiable. It is precisely that ambition that has made them a household name in Extreme Metal. Century Media

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A band going in the right direction with this album., November 5, 2008

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Old School Gamer "What the hell's a gigawatt!?!" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Strychnine.213 (Audio CD)

This album is a very vibrant mix of a few metal genre's including gore, grind, melodic death, and thrash. It came as a welcome surprise for me because I had always known about Aborted but was never interested as they seemed like yet another splatter metal band, which I do not prefer. The only band I personally listen to that can be considered comparable to Aborted on this album is Avulsed, who has always tried to mix melody and catchiness with the gore.

This album has outstanding guitar work, especially when it comes to the leads which shimmer in their melodic brilliance in many, many songs on this cd. The drummer has always been topnotch. He doesn't blast for no apparent reason at all or give you nothing but a flam/roll-fest that adds absolutelly nothing to the musical direction(unfortunatelly too many "extreme" drummers have no sense of taste when it comes to what goes where in a composition). He is quite skilled and shines on this album. The vocalists are outstanding for the genre as well and there is some great shadowplay between the different styles used during any given song.

The album itself is strong throughout. I found myself loving every minute of it from start to finish. There are no fillers. The only weak point is perhaps the lyrics, but eh, who really cares. No one listens to underground music for the lyrics in general, its about the music.

All in all I hope that Aborted keeps it up with their next release and brings it to the next level. If they do, they deserve to be ranked amongst some of todays best metal acts. Recommended to fans of Gore Metal, Thrash, and Melodic Death. It can easily please anyone into any of these genre's.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for original Aborted fans, March 20, 2009

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M. Kotsopodis (North Beach, MD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strychnine.213 (Audio CD)

If you like anything pre-Goremageddon from Aborted then you probably will not enjoy this. The construction of the riffs are great but it just doesn't have that amazing flow and catchy feel of Goremageddon.

2 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Moving in a different direction yet brutal as, June 24, 2008

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L. F. Kossenberg "grimreefer" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Strychnine.213 (Audio CD)

this cd is much like slaughter and apparatus but twice as catchy yet brutal as