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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Abysmal Piss is a brutal death metal and goregrind act from Ceres, California. With a 2018 demo and a 2019 promo, the band delivers the kind of guttural, low-budget extremity that thrives in the goregrind underground.
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.
Abysmal Torment has delivered brutal death metal from Birkirkara in Malta since 2014, establishing themselves as one of the island nation's most internationally recognized extreme metal acts. Their decade-plus body of work brings punishing brutality from a country smaller than most European cities.
Colossal Blackened Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.
Abysmal Winds creates death metal from the Dalarna and Uppsala areas since 2022. Their infernal-weather name drives compositions that blow with the devastating force of deep-earth storms.
Sacramento death metal project. The name coinages a practitioner of the abysmal — a professional of the void.
Abyss Angel creates death and doom metal from Moscow since 2024. Their contradictory name — a celestial being from the depths — drives compositions that negotiate between the divine and the infernal.
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 Lord are a death metal band from Wedemark near Hanover, Germany, active since 2002, with releases including Fragments of Insanity and Rising from the Depths. Their two-decade tenure in the Lower Saxony underground speaks to a persistence that outlasts trends in the German death metal scene.
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