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"Bathos" is a single release by Belgian death metal act Aborted. The single was released through Century Media Records in June 2017. It bridges the gap between the band´s 9th and 10th full-length studio albums "Retrogore (2016)" and "TerrorVision (2018)". There has been one lineup change since "Retrogore (2016)" as bassist JB van der Wal has been replaced by Stefano Franceschini.
"Bathos" features the title track and "Fallacious Crescendo" and clocks in at 8 minutes of playing time. "Bathos" is one of Aborted´s more "core" tinged tracks, while "Fallacious Crescendo" pretty much just crushes with a brutal technical death metal sound like we´re used to from Aborted. I´m not sure if it´s true, but both could well be leftover tracks from the "Retrogore (2016)" sessions, as both are in the more average quality end of the scale for Aborted.
"Bathos" is a well produced single. Brutal, heavy, and raw sounding and perfectly suiting the equally brutal music, and while it´s not a standout release in Aborted´s discography I´ll take even a standard quality Aborted release over a lot of other artists in the more brutal end of the death metal scale. A 3.5 star (70%) rating is deserved.
