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The Fear (2022)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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Abyssfire merges black and death metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2018. Their infernal-chasm name drives compositions that burn with the combined intensity of two extreme genres.
Abyssial channels black metal from the Breton port city of Brest since 2010, drawing from Finistère's wild Atlantic coastline for over a decade. Their oceanic variation on "abyssal" suits music forged at the westernmost edge of continental France.
Abyssidious channels black metal from East Anglia since 2020, their name blending abyss with insidious to create a creeping, bottomless darkness. Their fenland origins feed a sound drawn from England's flattest, most haunted landscapes.
Abyssielle crafts melodic black metal from London since 2020, their French-inflected name combining 'abyss' with an ethereal suffix. Their Francophone identity within the British capital adds a distinctive continental flavor to their melodic extremity.
Valdosta, Georgia death/thrash metal project. The name evokes infinite depth from South Georgia's agricultural flatlands.
Ohio black metal project. The portmanteau of abyss and lotus creates beautiful darkness from the Buckeye State.
Abyssos has practiced melodic black metal from Sundsvall in Medelpad since their recent reformation in 2025. Their Greek word for 'bottomless' drives compositions that plumb infinite melodic depths from northern Sweden.
AbyssTod merges black and death metal from Goleniów in West Pomerania since 2023. Their hybrid name combining English and German words for 'death' speaks to the cross-cultural extremity of their northwestern Polish metal.
Abyssum Chaos practices black metal from Bari, Puglia's Adriatic capital, since 2021. Their name — combining Latin and Greek words for void and disorder — encapsulates the nihilistic turbulence at the heart of their Mediterranean black metal.
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