Abruptum
Abruptum is a band founded in Swedish in 1989.
Band History
1989-1996
The band was founded in 1989 by Tony "IT" Särkkä and Jim "All" Berger, who worked also at Vondur and was supplemented by Ext in 1990. With this line took in the same year on the first demo cassette Hextum Galaem Zelog. Upon completion, Ext was thrown because of personal differences from the band, and shortly afterwards - still in 1990 - the second demo The Satanist Tunes completed.
In 1991, follow the Evil EP (later reissued under the title Psychoslaughter ). Some time it had all left the band due to massive alcohol problems and was replaced by Morgan "Evil" Steinmeyer Håkansson of the still young Swedish black metal band Marduk. In this occupation in 1993 was followed by the album Obscuritatem Advoco amplectère me as well as 1994, the album In umbra malitiae ambulabo in aeternum in triumpho tenebraum, both on Death Like Silence Productions. Without the participation of Evils followed in 1996 by the album Vi sonus veris nigrae malitiaes. 1997 IT left the Black Metal scene.
Since 2000
In 2000, however, Evil, decided to continue Abruptum alone and yet published in the same year the EP De profundis mors vas cousumet which unpublished, partly already consisted partly of old (1991) and by then newly composed pieces, Evil with the latter, all as with the 2004 following album Casus luciferi, stylistically largely new ground struck.
After Evil first announced in 2005, the resolution Abruptums, he announced some time on the appearance of one more album for autumn 2005, which should be titled Maleficent. The release date was first postponed to 20 February 2006, the album was not released until today.
In particular, because Abruptum always was considered especially ITs spiritual child, remember to critics that the Continuation Abruptums by Evil is likely to be due mainly to financial considerations. To meet the fans Abruptum era to 1996, the later publications mostly with rejection.
For 2011, an album called Potestates Apocalypsi was announced, which will be released on Evils record company Blooddawn Productions and Regain Records.
Style
The compositions Abruptums access guttural cries and produced for the (Black) Metal typical instruments (which will be sounded only partially in the traditional sense ), but its hardly stand in relation to music in the sense of tonal harmony, so that they as a kind of " anti- music " are referred to. The assignment as Black Metal is accordingly regarded as controversial. The statements of its founder ITs According to this, however, is entirely intentional: Euronymous had Abruptum as "The Audial Essence of Pure Black Evil" ( to German as: " The acoustic essence of pure black evil" ) refers to IT saw this information to be accurate and insisted that Abruptum was no band and no music playing.
Traversed by perceived as extremely disturbing sound stimuli, metallic - bizarre soundscapes and overdriven, seemingly inhuman screams that works Abruptums produce an extremely dark mood that you can assign to the Death Industrial.