ABRUPTUM - Orchestra Of Dark Digi-CD

This is the The Satanist Tunes demo, with an additional outro. The band (at the time of release) consisted of IT and Evil, but it is unclear whether Evil actually contributed to the recording (in which case it would be the outro).

A slowed down, echoed, reverbed voice played backwards slowly dies away and leads into the explosion of bass signal distortion and loud echoed drums. So begins Abruptum's second demo and my favourite of their releases. It is very similar in production to Obscuritatem Advoco Amplectére Me (lots of reverb, echoing and feedback on almost everything) and identical in instrumentation (a couple of guitars, a bass, a keyboard and a drummer). However, there is one main difference between demo era Abruptum and album era Abruptum: the vocals. There is only one vocalist, and instead of what appears to be random, painful screaming, as on following album releases, there is a low guttural Black/Death Metal style voice, grunting what appear to be lyrics, although they are completely indecipherable of course.