Aborted were essentially stuck in limbo when this album came out. Slaughter & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture is not the deathgrind act's worst recording, believe me, and yet there are certain parts of the release that come off as more repetitive than outright fascinating. I understand trying to top Goremageddon wouldn't be smooth sailing, but guys, the regression shouldn't be this blatant. On its own two hands and legs, on the plus side, Slaughter & Apparatus makes for a mildly solid listen all the way to the corpse-infested hospital. True, it may be disowned by many because of the supposed deathcore influence (Svencho doesn't like it himself, to put it nicely), though I find Strychnine.213 to be an improvement over this one. If you aren't willing to sit through the album - in spite of not really requiring a whole lot of patience - then check out the songs "The Chondrin Enigma," "The Spaying Seance," "Ingenuity in Genocide," and "Underneath Rorulent Soil"; they're axe smashers!
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