YMMV / Aborted

• Audience-Alienating Era: The fans view the Abattoir-Strychnine.213 period as this, which Sven is generally in agreement with (though he does like The Archaic Abattoir). "Hecatomb" and "Dead Wreckoning" off The Archaic Abattoir are semi-regular setlist entries, but they have not touched anything off of Slaughter & Apparatus or Strychnine in over a decade.
• Fanon Discontinuity: The fandom as a whole is more than happy to pretend that Strychnine doesn't exist. Few people think it's bad, but very weak and uninspired compared to what the band is capable of. It's regarded by most fans to be their worst album. Sven stated in an interview from 2021 that the reason he hates the album was because it was made at a time when the band was at a low point and didn't gel together musically nor personally, which resulted in a rushed final product that represented the bad place they were at.
• Growing the Beard: While The Purity of Perversion was by no means bad, Engineering the Dead saw them coming into their own for the first time. But it was Goremageddon that really solidified their status as the brutal death juggernauts they are today, as it introduced more complex arrangements, more polished guitar tones, and a tighter melodic overtone. There's a reason it's considered by many fans to be their best album.
• Never Live It Down: Ken will probably never get to live down the tow truck. Long story short, they were playing in Vancouver and staying at some shitty hotel, and Ken had picked up some random girl with the intention of getting laid. They made off to the van after Ken parked it and were pretty well into it when he heard a backing alarm and felt the van moving. You see, Ken had managed to park the van in a tow zone and found this out when it was too late to get the driver to release the van. The rest of the band made him pay the $200 or so that it cost to get it out of the impound lot and have never let him forget it since.
• Older Than They Think: Given that they frequently collaborate with modern artists for the time period on their albums (to the point that some of the guests on Maniacult were barely in elementary school, if that, when they formed) and didn't become big until the 2010s, it's not uncommon for people to be surprised that their first album was released all the way back in 1999.
• Signature Song: "Meticulous Invagination'' and/or "Источник болезни (The Origin of Disease)".
• Squick: Sven seems to enjoy invoking this lyrically.
• Unexpected Character: While most of Sven's choices for guests on ManiaCult were pretty straightforward, if not more deathcore-oriented than they typically are, Ryo Kinoshita's appearance came solidly out of left field.
• Win Back the Crowd: Coronary Reconstruction was intended to help reestablish the band after a string of polarizing albums and the truly despised Strychnine.213 gave people the impression that Goremageddon was their creative swansong. Fan reaction was very positive, and from there, Global Flatline firmly revitalized them and made them relevant once again, and by The Necrotic Manifesto, they had become a legitimately big name.