What the heck?! Do you remember ABRUPTUM, the (in)famous side project of Morgan Hakansson of Marduk and his companion, Tony Särkää (also known as IT)? They did some pretty strange albums during the early 90s, above all the sick In Umbra Maliciae Ambulabo in Aeternum in Triumpho Tenebrarum (1994), a disc containing only one track of about an hour showcasing the authors abilities to destroy a violin and to moan, cry and scream throughout this torturous marathon of noise production. Every second of this album was so different from what people usually call music that it truly is hard to describe what it sounds like. I remember listening to the album from time to time, mostly before going to bed as it was so boring that I fell asleep immediately after starting the CD. On the other hand, it was somewhat special to be one of the lucky (?) owners of the album. I remember showing it to my friends, telling them how shitty it was all the time and laughing my ass off about it. Maybe that’s the reason why I still got it in my CD rack. I’ll probably never sell it, even though I already sold BETTER albums of my collection. Anyway, when I read that ABRUPTUM was going to release another CD, I was quite curious about it as memories from the past arose. To be honest, not much has changed concerning ABRUPTUMs music during the last 10 years. Casus Luciferi consists of 4 tracks and has a playing time of about 40 minutes. It starts with strange noises (and fucking monotonous drums) and ends the same way. It is the Alpha and the Omega, the most terrible album of all times (excluding its predecessors), and it truly is rotten from a musical point of view. If I had bought it, I would probably shove it up my ass to punish myself for my stupidity… and another 5 years later, it still would have become a true classic of Swedish crap arts (along with the other ABRUPTUM records, the two Vondur discs etc…) in my collection. I won’t rate this album. I would never recommend it to anyone. It is disturbing and completely fucked up. But somehow I feel sympathy for the creators of it, as they surely had a good time producing it. So if you get your hands on it, maybe you should keep it. It might become rare one day. :-)