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Abyssal is a blackened melodic death metal band from Elgin, Illinois. Active since 2012, the band has released two full-lengths and two EPs that layer melodic sensibility over a foundation of blackened death metal ferocity.
Abyssal Decimator fuses black and death metal from Scotland since 2025, their name promising systematic destruction from the uttermost depths. The project represents the newest wave of Scottish extreme metal.
Abyssal Necrophony channels black metal from an undisclosed Slovak location since 2023. Their death-music-from-the-deep name drives compositions of cavernous, sepulchral darkness.
Abyssal Pain is a depressive black metal and ambient project from Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, exploring themes of negativity, pessimism, and emotional dissolution. The project has released a substantial run of albums — including "Der Nagel im Sarg," "Frio Esterilizante," "Desvanecer," and "Catarse" — and contributed to the DSBM Brazil Vol. II compilation, situating itself firmly within the Brazilian DSBM underground.
Abyssal Rites is a black metal band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their 2019 full-length "Synesthesia Ritual" and 2020 follow-up EP "The Final Advance" deliver occult-tinged black metal from the heart of the Great Plains.
Abyssalborne is a raw black metal project shrouded in anonymity. Their 2023 EP "A God's Gambit" offers five tracks of lo-fi, uncompromising black metal stripped to its most essential elements.
A black metal and gothic metal project from Dormagen, Germany, Abyssaria formed in 2025 and merge the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the melodramatic sweep of gothic metal. The project operates from the Rhineland, contributing to the region's deep well of dark and extreme music.
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.
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