Century Media
2007
Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
About This Album
Although the title of Aborted's fifth effort, Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture, actually resembles that of a Carcass album, it's fair to say that the statute of limitations for comparing these Belgians to the original masters of clinical death-grind (who had disbanded over a decade earlier) has officially expired. If not, then ex-Carcass man Jeff Walker's guest appearance on this record should, at the very least, serve as some sort of blessing, or passing of the torch, so that Aborted can just get on with their brutal business. In any case, getting on with business is what they do here, and the LP's title is certainly indicative of the quartet's inspired tightrope walk between the realms of unrestrained grindcore savagery and meticulously crafted death metal technicality. Take synthesizer-enhanced offerings (yes, synthesizers!) like "Avenious" and "And Carnage Basked in Its Ebullience," for example, or the harmony- and melody-rich (not quite the Gothenburg school, but close enough for comparison) title track and "Ingenuity in Genocide" -- none of this qualifies as your run-of-the-mill grindcore material. Also, as well as making you run for the dictionary, "Underneath Rorulent Soil" (Ro'ru'lent: having the surface appearing as if dusty, or covered with fine dew) boasts the coolest, atmospheric death metal intro/outro combo to be heard in a very long time.
Track List (try tracks 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and 8)

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