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Aborted

A punishing, blast furnace-forged grindcore/death metal outfit from Belgium, Aborted's blend of intensity, technical acumen, and unfiltered emotion has made them one of extreme metal's most celebrated and enduring acts. Emerging in the mid-'90s, early efforts like Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done, and The Archaic Abattoir paired savage hardcore with groove-laden breakdowns. As the years went on, the band pivoted toward a more technical death metal style, with TerrorVision, ManiaCult, and Vault of Horrors delivering uncompromising brutality with lethal precision well into the 21st century. With a name like Aborted, it doesn't take a genius to file the band in the realm of grindcore. Still, since being formed in 1995 by vocalist Sven de Caluwé (aka Gurgloroth Sven), these Belgians have broken through stylistic limitations to meddle in straightforward death metal and other metallic forms. So many musicians have moved through Aborted's ranks; however, that having enough bandmembers to record their first demo (the highly praised The Necrotorous Chronicles) was only achieved in 1998, after which a pair of self-exploratory albums (1999's The Purity of Perversion and 2001's Engineering the Dead) were interspersed with various split EPs recorded with other budding artists. Come 2003's Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done, though, Aborted had grown into the role of key contributors to the death-grind genres and, after issuing the Haematobic EP the following year, delivered what arguably represents their finest hour, 2005's The Archaic Abattoir album. Here, their lineup had stabilized (for the moment, anyway) into guitarists Bart Vergaert and Thijs "Tace" de Cloedt, bassist Frederic Vanmassenhove, drummer Gilles Delecroix, and the ever-present Caluwé. Arriving in 2007, Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture saw Caluwé and company inking a deal with Century Media, where they would remain well into the next decade, releasing a string of punitive, death metal-forward albums and EPs, including Strychnine.213 (2008), Global Flatline (2012), Necrotic Manifesto (2014), and the Termination Redux EP. Aborted elicited acclaim for their ninth full-length effort, 2016's Retrogore, which charted in five countries. Two years later, they issued their highest charting effort to date, TerrorVision, which peaked at number four on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. The band continued ministering their pulverizing modern death metal in the 21st century with 2021's uncompromising ManiaCult and 2024's horror film-inspired Vault of Horrors, the latter of which marked the band's debut for Nuclear Blast.
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