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Album Review: Aborted - The Necrotic Manifesto

Tom Hersey

On some tracks it seems apparent they might be playing a bit too fast – on An Enumeration Of Cadavers the drums are so triggered up the guitars get lost – but these minor detractors don’t stop this album from being the best Aborted disc since Goremaggedon.

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Belgian gore-grinders Aborted have hacked off enough fresh cuts for album number eight. As was starting to be the case on 2012's Global Flatline, The Necrotic Manifesto sees the five-piece entirely divorce themselves from the gauche deathcore sensibilities of Strychnine.213 and refocus on what they do best: playing fast and ugly. On some tracks it seems apparent they might be playing a bit too fast – on An Enumeration Of Cadavers the drums are so triggered up the guitars get lost – but these minor detractors don't stop this album from being the best Aborted disc since Goremaggedon.