I can’t recall getting a promo with a biography that was that short and that clear as the one I got with Abruptum’s last CD. Regain Records saw that a few words would do the job.
“Abruptum is the audial essence of your worst nightmare and have caused many people to start cutting in their bodies after listening. Listening to them can be described as lying in bed with 43 degress fever while having someone slashing your wrists. ”
End of this review.
I think I can’t come up with better words to describe the music of Abruptum any better. In four and forty minutes we get one of the most sickening and dark soundscapes you’ll ever come across. I am not too sure what the line-up is these days for information is just as their music – inaccessible, but they were able to get the true essence of evil in this recording. Most ‘true black metal’ bands could learn something from this for I am sure this is what they play in hell – every day and every night and as loud as possible. Insanity. This extreme doomed hell-noise is build around guitar rustle, some sole screams and vocals parts, Gregorian hymns (in the second track for instance), and some execution ruffles. The artwork is extreme and as sick as the music (is it?) on this CD. One comment: why this title? “Casus Luciferi”, Watain (Swedish black metal band) recently put out a record with the same name.
I realised that I spent another few word on the album. I will close with the last line from the bio: “Either you know what Abruptum is all about or you stay as far away from it as you can”. That’s the advice, you have been warned, and I’ll take another trip through hell…
