Global Flatine is familiar territory for Aborted and it still suites them pretty well. This is gore-soaked brutal death metal with grindcore undertones and full of eerie spoken world samples from unknown sources (It still mystifies me where they are able to find all these weird, creepy sound clips. Is there some kind of underground directory or something?). It rarely reaches greatness, but when it does it rivals Goremageddon in terms of quality. "Of Scabs and Boils", "Grime", and especially "The Kallinger Theory" stood out to me. These tracks are when Aborted's twisted, chaotic, sinister nature reaches full on bat-shit crazy status. If the whole album was like these 3 songs, it would have been completely awesome and rivaled Goremageddon as their best record. Besides that we are left with 10 other solid, but not spectacular songs. On the plus side, Sven De Calume can still growl with the best of them and there are some pretty cool solos and progressive breaks in the action that make the whole record worth listening to, but doesn't quite match the greatness of those three aforementioned tracks.
Global Flatline is vintage Aborted. They haven't lost a step in their four-year absence. They still know how to crush skulls and make brutal death metal that takes no prisoners and goes straight for the jugular. Though it rarely reaches the heights that some of their previous material did, it remains pretty damn good throughout. Global Flatline is a nice return to the scene for Aborted and hopefully it won't take them another four years to release another record.
3.5/5 Stars
Standout Tracks
1.The Kallinger Theory
2.Of Scabs and Boils
3.Grime
No comments:
Post a Comment