ABORTED — Global Flatline (review)

ABORTED — Global Flatline album cover Album · 2012 · Brutal Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
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Genre: death metal

The Belgian death metaller strike back with another barrage of death-grind that breaks all speed limits.

We are, of course, dealing with brutal death metal with lots of blasbeats and grinding passages and varying levels of technicality - and this should not be understood as if the musical quality is unstable (no, the Aborted-guys are highly professional and talented musicians). A reflection of this is their ability to use of both advanced technical features and more primitive death metal elements.

The main focus is on speed and brutality, which naturally leads to a lot of blastbeats - perhaps almost too many; but we must remember that blastbeats also belong to genre, so I suppose there is not reason to complain. To be sure, the album is not just a load of blasting grind-songs from beginning to end: there are plenty of heavy sections and lots of midtempo passages and also numerous solid and tasty riffs. And the changes from blastbeats to groovy breakdowns to doom-laden heavy beats to old school death metal primitive riffs and so on work incredibly well.

There are also some pockets of melody that pop up in the amidts all the brutality, which generates a nice dynamic. Specifically the guitar solos are quite melodic and also quite technically advanced, and, if you are a fan of guitar solos, you should find the album very enjoyable to listen to (provided that you are also a fan of extreme metal, of course).

Fans of brutal death metal, death-grind and perhaps grindcore - I reckon - should find this album appealing.
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