It’s been awhile since I’ve reviewed an underground brutal
death album, so I thought I should let you know about a young brutal death band
known as Aborted Fetus. This band is one out of many bands I discovered via
Brutal Bands’ website along with Element, Arsebreed, Putridity, Lust of Decay,
Melting Flesh, Insidious Decrepancy, and tons of other bands with the ability
to demolish your eardrums. It seems that most of the Russian bands I hear tend
to be on the brutal and gore side of things (i.e. Katalepsy, ). Although from
Russia, most of Aborted Fetus’ fans are located in Germany, America, and The
Netherlands.
Aborted Fetus is one of those ultra-pure brutal death bands
with not too much else added on. I love how so many of these obscure death
metal bands have such professional and high-quality recordings! Seriously, all
those black metal guys are saying that they “can’t afford” adequate recording
equipment (and I know they do that somewhat on purpose) and these death metal
bands are coming out with albums that have the production quality of Century
Media bands! Aborted Fetus is one of the best examples of that pristine and
crisp sound quality that makes audiophiles like me very happy faced.
Their drummer doesn’t stick to blast beats. In fact, he
rarely even does them at all. He does keep the fast (but not super-fast) double
kick going for the majority of the record to keep the adrenaline of the
listener going and to keep the pit moving at their shows. I honestly don’t know
if the drummer is off-time or not during some parts because he has times where
he starts doing random shit out of nowhere and it doesn’t seem like it fits,
but at the same time it’s something that one could consider predictable. But at
least the drummer doesn’t seem TOTALLY lost; he’s a good fit for the band and
he’s what I would consider an “average, but good for the genre” brutal death
drummer.
If you know what your average brutal death/death grind
vocalist sounds like, that’s what this guy sounds like. For those of you
experienced and knowledgeable brutal death fans that want details on what this
guy sounds like; he does inhales like all the others do, his inhales tend to be
more of a growl than a pig squeal, but there’s still an obvious amount of pig
squeal sound. This is actually my favorite type of inhaled vocals because it
isn’t a super annoying pig squeal, but it’s not so deep that it sounds like the
vocalist drank too much root beer before entering the studio.
The guitars are very deep and EXTREMELY crunchy (you won’t
hear the entire crunch until you listen closely for the first time). I have no
idea how the hell these guys managed to get that rough of a sound out of the
guitars without completely demolishing the low-end. The best answer I can come
up with is that they turned the bass guitar up really loud and they gave it a
super smooth and soft sound to even out the crunchiness of the guitars.
There’s only one bad thing about this album and that is that
the songs are WAY too similar. For some people, an album like this seems to
take FOREVER to get through and amazing albums seem too short. For me, albums like
this aren’t as engaging and they don’t hold on to your attention for very long.
And since I have ADD, my main attention goes elsewhere and then when I look
back at the album to see how much of it has passed by, it’s on the last song
and it feels like I just turned it on five minutes ago!
Other than that disappointing factor, this is pretty good
for an obscure brutal death album. I would honestly recommend this primarily to
those of you that are more experienced in this area of metal, mainly because
this isn’t anywhere near what I would want to have as a first impression for
someone who isn’t familiar with the really brutal metal. I would give this
album 14/20.
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