The Beveren, East Flanders-based Belgian juggernaut have been cranking out twisted technical gore death metal since "Necrotorous Chronicles" demo (1998). Inspired by "Symphonies Of Sickness" and "Necrotiscism: Descanting The Insulubrious" Carcass Aborted spewed forth "The Purity Of Perversion" (1999), "Engineering The Dead" (2001) and finally the critically/fan acclaimed "Goremageddon: The Saw And The Carnage Done" (2003) before they incorporated melodic death on "The Archaic Abattoir" (2005) and "Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture" (2007) and then even metalcore on "Strychnine.213" (2008), before a drastic change for the better and more mature direction as evidenced on "Global Flatline" (2012) and the fantastic "The Necrotic Manifesto" (2014). I am not familiar with either "Retrogore" (2016) or "Terrorvision" (2018) so this new EP, "La Grande Mascarade" should bring me up to date.

What I find is that Sven de Caluvé (vocals), Ian Jekelis (guitars), Stefano Franceschini (bass) and Ken Bedene (drums) are doing a fine job of just being Aborted, but with a definite industrial/noise overtones of "Slaughter & Apparatus" (Gloom And The Art Of Tribulation), which is not to say they’ve departed from melody, as you’ll find plenty on the favorite "Funereal Malediction" which strongly recalls "Global Flatline", while the All Shall Perish-ian "Serpent Of Depravity" suggests a more progressive yet still no less melodic approach which, interestingly, touches black metal overtones. Aborted’s affinity for distortion and overwhelming power without underlying substance, most evident on the opening "Gloom And The Art Of Tribulation" (which is therefore my least favorite track and a major cause for lower points for about 2:50 minutes of its duration) is of some concern for the future but we’ll cross this bridge when they go too far in this tendency. At the same time, there’s nothing new under the sun, just what they do best.

Full of power, palpable sickness and progressive melody, to say nothing of technical prowess, Aborted signal they are doing fine and ready to assault your senses with a full length sonic attack some time in the future.

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