Aborted - Here comes devastation

I don't know if this band is very well know. Last fm list above 16 000 listenners , way more than for an old school death metal band like Immolation, so I would tend to think that Aborted are very popular right now in extreme metal circles. But still, I love them so why not do a post about a cool band. From belgium to boot, a rare occurence among the extreme metal hordes. The only two other band from belgium I can think of are Leng Tch'e and In Quest, both awesome, and both linked in a way or another to Aborted thanks to the prolific Sven who can't stop playing in metal bands when he is not in Aborted. I really got into them with "the Archaic abattoir". To me, it's an album that showed full of catchy and brutal tune. A fun listen in fact. A good and bad factor for a death metal band since the genre is not really about having fun. So, after listenning to the Archaic abattoir a lot, I thought that this was a little of a waste and a let down that a band that could write good tunes like these didn't have the atmosphere to match their brutality. Thankfully, Sven heard me and put together almost a whole new band (since member change are very frequent in Aborted's world, Sven remaining the only original member) and put out "Slaughter & Apparatus". Gone are the breakdowns that made the music so fun and brutal. The new Aborted is more metal and the riffs are also more melodic at times but also sound very "sick". Now, I don't like this world because it's too much linked to a band like Slipknot who makes "me" sick. But there is something trully evil in some of these riffs. They smell like "death". Just listen to the riff that ends "the Spaying sceance" and don't tell me you can't hear zombies being killed by the truckload to this riff. And the same goes for the riff at the beginning of "The foul nucleous of resurrection". This is rather fitting for a band who have just made an album about death camps put together by governement who wants to regulate the population on earth, a Maltusianiste nightmare that gives an edge to the music. Not that I needed the music of Aborted to make me aware of such concept. But it's always reassuring when a band don't downplay their music and tries to tackle subject a little bit more mature than the average zombie movie. Bands should not always write about political subject but when I listen to violent and extreme music, I prefer a band that actually screams about something meaningful. And, don't worry, Aborted are still synonymous of fun. I've seen them live and I can testify, they know how to have a good time. It's just not your average idea of having a good time. And Aborted are not an average band, they are in the major league.