Luctus is a Lithuanian one-man blackmetal band. The sound of Luctus can be described as fast and agressive black metal with some death/thrash influences. Luctus main lyrical themes are as follows: war, patriotism, nowaday decadence, the dying paganism. Created in 2001, Luctus has so far released two albums. The first demo tape "My Sorrow In The Lifeless Landscapes", released in 2002, was rather amature, recorded only with an acoustic guitar and this tape didn't reach the metalheads of the underground. The first album "The Dawn Ov The Eclipsed Desperation" which was released in 2003, was recorded in in a professional studio, however using a drum machine. This album didn't reach many metalheads, however, those who had heard this album said good words about it. After a year, the currently latest Luctus album, „Ad Arma!“, was released. The style had changed a bit: it had become more agressive and powerful than before. This time, the drums were handled by a live drummer. The album "Ad Arma!" received great reviews all over the underground. Luctus managed to find three musicians and play a few live shows. By this time, the whole new album is already created, entitled: "Monument of Hate". Recorded at march of 2006, in "The Lair" studio, the new warfire strikes with 10 patriotic, bursting with pure hate compositions. In the march of 2007 the biggest Lithuanian black metal label Ledo Takas releases a split album with Argharus, entitled "Sonitus Caeli Ardentis". The split album contains six tracks of the latest record. From the summer of 2006 Luctus kommand had a stabile line-up with two sessionist to strike in live shows.
