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Evidence (2023)
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Abysmal Spectre merges black metal, death metal, and progressive metal from the East Anglian city of Norwich since 2018, creating a sophisticated hybrid of extreme styles. Their phantasmal name evokes the ghostly depths their compositions explore.
Colossal Blackened Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Abyss Below delivers symphonic blackened death metal from Oslo and Gothenburg as of 2025. Their bi-national Norwegian-Swedish operation bridges two of Scandinavia's most important extreme metal cities.
Abyss Cerebrum channels black metal from the Mediterranean city of Nice since 2013, their name evoking the depths of the mind's darkest recesses. The contrast between the Côte d'Azur's sunlit glamour and their sound's oppressive darkness adds an intriguing dimension.
Abyss Cult is a raw black metal band from Torello in Catalonia, Spain, formed in 2025, channeling the genre's lo-fi hostility and uncompromising aggression from the rural Osona valley north of Barcelona. The band is among the newest raw black metal acts in the Catalan extreme metal underground.
Abyss Nöir blends progressive black and death metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2020. Their Franco-English name adds a cosmopolitan flair to the technical ambition of their genre-crossing compositions.
Abyss of Life channels depressive black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2012. Their existential-void name — life as an abyss — captures the profound despair at the core of their DSBM compositions.
Abyss of Sheowl creates atmospheric and depressive black metal from Riga since 2014, their name combining the concept of an abyss with the Hebrew underworld Sheol. From Latvia's capital on the Daugava River, they plumb the deepest registers of despair.
An atmospheric black metal project from Regensburg, Germany, Abyss of Torture emerged in 2022 channeling bleak, cavernous soundscapes rooted in the atmospheric end of the black metal spectrum. The Bavarian project explores the genre's capacity for immersive darkness and emotional extremity.
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