ABORTED — The Purity of Perversion (review)

ABORTED — The Purity of Perversion album cover Album · 1999 · Brutal Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
UMUR
"The Purity of Perversion" is the debut full-length studio album by Belgian death metal act Aborted. The album was released through Uxicon Records in May 1999. "The Purity of Perversion" features an incredibly gory and offensive front cover artwork (even for Aborted´s standards) which imediately sets the blood soaked tone for the album if the album title or songtitles like "Necro-Eroticism" and "Gurgling Rotten Feces" haven´t already given that away.

The music on "The Purity of Perversion" is strongly influenced by the gore grinding death metal of "Symphonies of Sickness (1989)"/"Necroticism - Descanting of the Insalubrious (1991)"-era Carcass. Predominantly by the sound on the former mentioned release album though. The vocal style which alternates between high pitched aggressive sneering and deep guttural growling is in the vein of Carcass and the goregrind/death metal music style is also very similar to Carcass trademark style. There´s an obvious clone factor here, that can´t be denied but "The Purity of Perversion" still comes off as decent quality release featuring some brutal and catchy tracks. It´s arguably a pretty standard release for the genre but well played and powerful.

The sound production is of a good quality too. Again pretty standard for the genre but professional and well sounding. The inclusion of horror movie samples on the tracks work really well for Aborted and provide the music with an extra eerie atmosphere.

Upon conclusion "The Purity of Perversion" is a surprisingly good quality release by Aborted. I honestly expected a much more lo-fi and primitive recording. That´s not the case here at all and while "The Purity of Perversion" seldom reach the excellent mark, it´s certainly a decent goregrind/death metal album deserving a 3 star (60%) rating.
Share this review

Review Comments

Post a public comment below | Send private message to the reviewer
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!

MMA TOP 5 Metal ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more
Master of Puppets Thrash Metal
METALLICA
Buy this album from our partners
Paranoid Heavy Metal
BLACK SABBATH
Buy this album from our partners
Moving Pictures Hard Rock
RUSH
Buy this album from our partners
Powerslave NWoBHM
IRON MAIDEN
Buy this album from our partners
Rising Heavy Metal
RAINBOW
Buy this album from our partners

New Metal Artists

New Metal Releases

I, the Destroyer Black Metal
SVARTFJELL
Buy this album from MMA partners
A Sonication Technical Death Metal
OBSCURA
Buy this album from MMA partners
Hin helga kvöl Atmospheric Sludge Metal
SÓLSTAFIR
Buy this album from MMA partners
The Cycles of Suffering Black Metal
BURIAL OATH
Buy this album from MMA partners
More new releases

New Metal Online Videos

More videos

New MMA Metal Forum Topics

More in the forums

New Site interactions

More...

Latest Metal News

members-submitted

More in the forums

Social Media

Follow us