Under the needle

Uncompromising perfectionism and relentless, compositional refinement may have long been business as usual for Belgian death metal fiends Aborted. But with their 10th landmark opus pushing this prestigious, violently pummelling craft into hitherto unheard new extremes of technical complexity and atmospheric horror, bass maestro Stefano Franceschini explains why the ingeniously ultraviolent ‘TerrorVision’ is about to redefine the face of extreme music as we know it. “It’s 2018

Like the tell-tale signs of blunt force trauma inflicted on the smashed and bloodied cranium of some hapless homicide victim, the brutal trademarks of classic death metal are all too obvious and instantly recognisable. Savage and pleasingly primitive for sure, but in the year 2018, almost painfully predictable and clichéd weapons of choice. Now imagine instead, if you will, a perpetrator of equally vicious, but infinitely more calculating capabilities. One who not only ruthle