Abruptum was a black metal/dark ambient band from Sweden. The band was formed in 1989 by IT (aka Tony Särkkä), All (aka Jim Berger), and Ext. IT had already planned to create the band in 1987, but it wasn't until 1990 that he found the right members to do it. The same year, they recorded their first two demos. After the release of the first demo, they kicked out their bass player Ext. After the release of a 7`` EP simply called Evil in 1991 (later re-released by Psychoslaughter), All began