Aborted has been around the block. After 16 years, six studio ablums and many, many members, this Belgian band has mastered the art of grinding seduction, and their latest album, Global Flatline, brings the pain. All of the classic elements of death metal are there: slowly elevating intros, squealing guitars, punishing vocals and double bass for days.
Recorded in Denmark, a few select guest vocalists make appearances, including Jason Netherton of Misery Index. And as is to be expected, gruesomely apocalyptic cover art is effectively utilized. The album is being released today, but for your chance to win a free copy, tell us in the comments below which previous Aborted album is your favorite (and why).
The contest will end at midnight on January 3o and the winner will be contacted by us. As always, you must have a mailing address in the continental U.S. to win.
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Coronary Reconstruction would be my favourite, though it is only an EP. It is really what got me into them and made a real impact on me about what to think of them. With the release of that EP they toured and came to the Red Room and blew my mind. It was not a full house at all. But what Sven could do with the crowd that was given to him said more then enough about the band itself and what they are capable of. I don’t remember seeing a grindcore act that either, was as impressive in my opinion or could out due what they could do. They are a band I will listen to and keep listening to because of that show and that EP.
Goremageddon would definitely be my favorite Aborted release. On their third full length Aborted really hit their stride, both wearing their influences on their sleeve and at the same time creating totally original material. The production on this record is great too, the guitars sound excellent and the low end crushes. This album cemented Aborted in the halls of fame of gore alongside their great peers like Exhumed and General Surgery.
Goremageddon, because the goddamn guitar tone actually sounds like a surgical saw being used for some serious malpractice!
I’d be lying if I said I was intimately familiar with their back catalog, but I did really enjoy Slaughter & Apparatus. My bandmate used to work in the graphics department for Hot Topic and would frequently show up with stacks of big-label (Nuclear Blast, Metal Blade, Century Media) metal records for me, which is how I came across Aborted.
Having a physical copy of something usually means I spend more time with an album, and in this case the investment paid off. They’re not the most original, but by S&A Aborted have grown beyond their roots of straight up Carcass worship into a solid grinding death metal band. Not unlike the hybrid death-grind of ’90s Napalm Death or Necroticism-era Carcass, these guys deliver solid tunes in one of my favorite styles.
not eligible but — Archaic Abattoir.
Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done. the reissue has a killer cover of Carcass’ “Carnal Forge”.
Goremageddon
first disasterpiece I heard from em. Makes me want to eat vulva.
Goremaggeddon.
It. Uh. Has the word “gore-” in it, so it must logically be awesome.
Oh, and it had the most memorable cover art too.
I would say that my favorite is The Purity of Perversion only to sound like a true metalhead haha, but I don’t care about that.
So my favorite album to date is Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done, first of all, because of the album cover!!! It’s sick as fuck!!!
Besides the album cover, the whole album is just amazing, it’s by far my favorite album Aborted has ever released, Global Flatline will probably be my second favorite by Aborted.
One of my favorite songs of off Goremageddon is Nemesis, the closing track on the regular album, this track is absolute amazingness, from start to solo to the end!
Can’t we all agree to stop using the word “sick” in this way?
GLOBAL FLATLINE, ‘CAUSE IT IS THE END OF THE WORLD
Goremageddon is the best album ever in my opinion! So it’s myfavorite Aborted release. It’s the third Aborted album i bought and i think this album has the record of beeing the longest in my cd-player non-stop! I also like the title and the concept of the album! Gore, violence does really fit the brutal and agressive atmospere the music on this album provides! The vocals are my favorite for years now!
Goremageddon, because it’s one of the albums that most influenced my playing style and, in fact, the one that made me the person i am.
Slaughter and The Apparatus-A Methodical Overture
Well…..speaks for itself really!!!!…………
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Gormageddon. The saw and the carnagee done. Love the cover and the album just kicks so much ass. Its brutal gore grind metal at its finest!! Its a classic up there with Carcass, Exhumed, and. Impaled
Strychnine.213 because of the Charles Mason reference in “A murmur in decrepit wits”, the technicality and that it was released on my 28th birthday \m/
Definitely Coronary Reconstruction. Only an Ep, but a fucking amazingly awesome and brutal one at that! It was the first work I had heard from the band, it absolutely blew my mind, I immediately fell in love. The intensity, brutality, musicianship, and the awesome ass cover art were all amazing and came together perfectly creating a sick Ep for the ages!
Favorite album was Archaic Abbatoir. It was the first aborted album I had listen to and was one of the first bands I liked that could deliver the raw sound of grind with the brutality of death metal.
Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture
This album holds Aborted’s gore-sound like their early albums but has the addition of great song structures and blistering guitar solos and overall melodic and harmonic melodies. The two covers of Pantera and Faith No More are brilliant, giving the originals a great new sound without messing with the old one.
My favourite is Goremageddon, because was the first album that I’ve heard from you, then I’ve started to know more about your band and your different way to play Death Metal. In my opinion, it’s one of the best from your discography cause of your guitar riff sounds, that they’re very crushing, heavy and brutal.
mine fav. is engineering the dead.
why. . . i like the brutallity on this lp.
I will say my favorit is The Archaic Abbatoir ! . Dead Wreckoning and Hecatomb is the most brutal shit u made, its melodic tones with the power of the light tuned kicks instead of the low tuned u got now. the snare is so mutch different in The Archaic Abbatoir than ur other material.
Hi Sven see you next time in Denmark again !
Ps. Global Flatline is my second choice ofc.!
Archaic Abattoir would have to get the vote. The combination of deep gutterals and high pitched screams really hit their peak. Also the production was a tad meatier than Goremaggedon. Not to mention the great American Psycho samples! Engineering is a very close second. Lastly, my Xbox live gamer tag is Archaic Abattior, I promote Aborted every time I play online! Lol
Engineering The Dead !!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t stop listening to that album for all those long years!!
Goremageddon was my first taste and I was hooked then on! I’m a drummer and love Dirk V. playing thats how I got hooked and I’m a fane for life, their artwork is off the charts and backed by kick ass face melting music!
Probably “Engineering The Dead”…
This is my first contact with these guys and it literally blew my facial hair away (the volume was quite loud too). I really digged the album cover art because of it’s lay-out and it actually brought me into the belches of Belgium’s filthiest yet technical and fast-paced belches… It made me realize as well that it doesn’t always have to be foreign material to be awesome. ETD will always remain a step-up for me to have acquaintanced myself more with Belgian metal (in the general genre), although Aborted made even more heavy and technical records than this one.
Just a personal touch to motivate my choice I guess…
Though it’s not an album, I’d go with coronary reconstruction, it’s heavy and fast but still maintains insanely catchy riffs and vocals.
My Favorite Aborted album is Goremageddon, the saw and the carnage done. I first heard of the album from Ben “goreskin” from Gorerotted. Im from Ontario Canada and I was chatting with goreskin on msn messenger asking advice on becoming a Gore singer for my first band Vaginal Discharge. Goremageddon was the first album he suggested. The song saw and the carnage done blew my mind with the unique double kicks and pulverizing guitar tone but especially the vocals and the growl to scream transitions. I practiced singing it till I mastered it and became a much better gore singer because of it!
Coronary Reconstruction. I really love the other albums, but the song I’m talking about it’s just a new kind of brutality that blew me away from the first seconds. I really have no words to describe that.
Goremageddon-making our lives happier since 2003. Why? Cuz it’s one of the best albums ever made in entire music industry. Grinding/Death music with not cheesy lyrics (meaning you must read them multiple times to get the point). So yeah…we could go on and on but the point is, Goremageddon is masterpiece.
Goremageddon….due to the carnage….the sheer carnage!
I’d say Strychnine.213 because it’s the first of their albums I got and I fucking love it. I love whatever snare the drummer used too, which I knew what it was… I’ll have to go get goremageddon since everyone is saying that
Goremegeddon. It’s a riff-tastic raging beast!! Plus an awesome Carcass cover
I’d have to say Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done. Because its a brutal death/goregrind masterpeice. It’s ribcage crushing heavy, the writing is brilliant, the instruments are surgically precise and hearing some of the drops and pickups are like taking a sledgehammer to the head. Pure fucking brilliance is why it’s their best albu!m prior to global flatline
Goremageddon.
The entire album might be a soundtrack for next season of The Walking Dead. Unholy masterpiece of total devastation. Essence of gore and mankind.
Goremageddon….the best songwriting
Goremageddon.
I remember when a mate came over and put it on, and meticulous invagination just destroyed me. The overall atmosphere, the punishing guitar and drums, vocals that can no longer be defined as human…
It has everything you could ever want from death metal, and still makes me wanna go berserk whenever i put it on.
I have to say Coronary Reconstruction. Altough it is not full-lenght. But there is nothing wrong and it is what aborted ment to be, brutal as hell, recognizable own style of death metal, Svens unique vocals, great oldschool horror intros (..they’re mean, rude and dead… not them.. them!!!) + awesome choice of Entombed cover which nicely fits to the ending of the ep, supporting the whole atmosphere. I like a lot previous releases as well, but CR is the SHIT!!!
I love Coronary Reconstruction. Especially the song Grime, sticks true to its name. Pretty hard to get their albums here in Singapore. I would really love to win one though!
Goremageddon, the Saw and the Carnage Done is by far the best to my ears. Ever since I heard these guys on Pandora radio my ears couldn’t get enough. Anyways back to the album. This album got me into the drop B and Drop A Guitar tuning. Those guitarists are brutally amazing. The fact that the drums can keep up with them just makes me awe. The lyrics are more intense than anything I have heard before. “A prophetized death machine, unleashedBones are splintered as I saw, decadence to feed murder is mankind’s only savior, Goremageddon.”
Sorry folks but I don’t think Cannibal Corpse can keep up with lyrics that is produced by this band called Aborted.
My favorite previous aborted album is The Archaic Abattoir for its intensity and it’s the first Aborted I got into and then I started listening to all their albums. I would love to win a copy of Global Flatline!
Goremageddon: The Saw and Carnage Done, why? Because I like being subjected to rusty bonesaw guitar riffs and bludgeoning blast beats.
I really think there is no album which is above the others, but my personal tastes would go to Strychnine 213. The intro (Carrion) conveys an atmosphere of beauty in destruction, held by an oppressive lead. Juste after that, we pass to Ophiolatry on a Hemocite platter, which is my favourite song of Aborted : the riff is so groovy that the first time i heard it i had to take my guitar to learn it, and today i’m still condemn to move my head back and forth when the song arrives (and the solo coming after the little break with the strange melody is so cool.) Then we have 135, which brings a good moment of fun through it’s violence, and when you have to wake up to go to the university, it’s a fucking solace to have it on your ears in the morning. Pestiferous Subterfuge : “the beauty of madness”, as the lyrics say. And it’s that, something really obscure and nervous, something depraved. At 2minutes in the song you have this break with the distorted chords, which is followed by this awesome tapping moment… to come back to violence
And violence is still there then, when the Chyme Congeries is a fucking punch in the head, (and for me the “drum” moment of the album, true death metal…). The next song shows us a pure twisted intro, to unleash one of my favourite riffs at 1min 15, with those syncopated rythmics… It’s just excelent. And the other moment in the song, when in one side we have insane screams, in the other an oppressive blast beat, and all of this with this melody behind… The next song, Enterrement of an Idol, is just a masterpiece of sick irony ! The lyrics are just excelent (really love the “hall of blame”), and finishing a song by “let the curtains drop as dead” is really a demonstration of writing skill, through some idea of fatality, which makes me viewing Sven as a reference when I write for my band : Someone who delivers through violence and gore some emotions and regrets, something sad and melancholic. For Hereditary Bane, i think that the song tells all “I’ll do anything to kill you all”. True violence through only 2:50, but there is no need of another minutes, more and I will not be able to move my neck anymore, due to headbang. The album is now near from the end : Avarice Of Vilification, a demonstration of awesomeness with chirurgical riffs, pinch harmonics, blast beat, breaks… And a “blackised” moment i love at 1min 40 or something, before a big breakdown in the face. The last song, the Obfuscate ends well the album. We have to notice this original riff with hammers going everywhere with behinds some crazy screams ! I can talk of this album for hours but i will stop now, i’m very sorry if my english is quite bad and shows a lack of vocabulary, I’m French and I do not speak english every days, but I think i will be understood.
I’d have to say Coronary Reconstruction because that’s the album that introduced me to the eargasmic sounds of Aborted
Goremageddon, because that’s the album they were touring for when I saw them live.
strychnine.213 cuz it sucks!
Slaughter and The Apparatus-A Methodical Overture.
This album led me to the conclusion that Aborted is the most influential band I’ve ever heard. That album opened a gate to all the other outstanding albums.
With that album flowing through my ears (many, many times), my long hard days of work became like walking among angels in hell.
Thanks guys for all the inspirational music!
In my honest opinion, my favorite album by Aborted would have to be Slaughter and Apparatus: The Methodical Overture. Listening to this CD reminds me of being in a freezer filled with dead bodies, slowy awaiting death, because of the bone-chilling guitar grooves and melodies. Dave Haley’s (Psycroptic) work for drums in this album is absolutely astounding. Knowing and have previously listened to Psycroptic gave me a bit of background on how he would sound on this album. My suspicions were correct. And also the small but amazingly worthy guest vocal spots from Jeff Walker (Carcass) really brought out the agonizing but brutal points in this album. Overall, I would buy 5-10 copies of this CD just so I can fill up my 6-disk player, but it’s worth it. To those who would have never heard death metal, and are eager to enter the sick and twisted world of this beautiful genre, I would definitely suggest picking up this CD and showing it to your friends.
Goremaggeddon has got to be my favorite, it was the first album I heard and was soooo brutal! Blasted it in my ‘73 Bronco all around the county. Bitches beware.
Goremageddon because moshpits.
The Archaic Abattoir. I saw them around the time it came out. I had been familiar with them to a certain degree, but when I heard the Patrick Bateman sample I was sold. It was an amazing show and after giving the record a few spins I’ve been hooked ever since.
Another Fucking Masterpiece For The Legend Band \,,/
Strychnine.213 is my favorite because the melodies are just awesome. It reminds of Carcass in a way, Heartwork Carcass to be more specific.
my absolute favorite album , #1 through #10 in order, would be “The Archaic Abattoir”. it has a very scary element to it that brings a dragging effect of pure controlled chaos its infuriating and precise all in one. from the artwork to the naming of the songs i can not think of a more complete album. “the archaic abattoir” is one of few that sends the chill down my spine, never can i stop moving to it period; GORE and TRUTH
Goremageddon, great songs by a great artist
My previous favorite Aborted album is . . . none! Never heard ‘em until No Cleaning Singing streamed it. Now I want it. Obey my command. Declare me the winner of this contest.
My favourite album is definitively “Goremageddon”.
It was the first Brutal Death album I’ve ever heard, and I always keep satisfaction while I listen to it. The sound is very brutal, the songs are well structured, and the atmosphere looks like a violent scene of horror movie and tempt me to kill people (nevertheless I’m not a psychopath haha).
When I saw you near to my home, in France, I was like a child in front his brutal idols.
Goremageddon is the perfect effigy of Aborted for me.
I just listened to my first Aborted album above. I expected to hate it but it is sick as fuck! That cover is sick too. Sick sick sick I tell ya!
Global Flatline is actually my first Aborted album. and it’s sick as fuck! i don’t usally like the deathgrind stuff, but shit is so fast and brutal and the death metal influnce is so clear and present. now im gonna check out their back catalog. i see alot people here name droped Goremageddon, so i will seek that album out. im so happy i purchased this album.
Obey my command.
Declare me the winner of this contest.
Goremageddon – it was my first introduction to the band and has some of their most savage material (hence my first exposure to the band hitting THAT much harder).
just when you think ABORTED could get any better. Goremageddon comes out and wow I got floored because it is so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d have to go with Archaic Abatoir because this album comes with me in my boombox on my “escapades”. You never know when you might need a soundtrack to murderize prostituting midgets and matty, homeless animals to. Oh well, back to G.B.H. and my Zelda game.
Goremageddon is my favorite Aborted CD. It still sounds stout nine years after its initial release. The album cover, lyrical content and samples about serial killers conveys a mood that makes me think of early Carcass, Hostel and other gore grind bands like General Surgery or Impaled. There is nothing that is necessarily new or revolutionary on Goremageddon, but what Aborted does they do exceptionally well. Incredibly violent and heinous cover art of a bloody doctor/torturer that would more than likely horrify most people and cause a small percentage of the population to revel in its brutality. Guttural and fast paced vocals that seem to be delivered without a pause for oxygen. Crazed drumming accompanied by precise guitar attacks. Aborted sound heavy, violent and abrasive throughout the entire CD. The production is not overly polished, which is a vital characteristic for any memorable death or grind CD. Despite having never seen Aborted in concert, I can only imagine how stellar cuts from Goremageddon would sound live.