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Mezokovecsháza's Abiozis ('abiosis' - absence of life) deliver black metal from the Hungarian Great Plain, channelling desolation and emptiness through raw, lo-fi compositions. Active since 2016, the project transforms the flatlands' stark beauty into extreme sonic expression.
Abishail is a black metal project that emerged from Hyvinkää in 2025, representing Finland's newest generation of black metal artists. The biblical name signals a project rooted in dark spiritual themes.
Brazilian atmospheric and depressive black metal project formed in 2014 by multi-instrumentalist Skymning and vocalist Seektor, initially under the name Bosque Negro before settling on Abisma. The duo has been remarkably prolific, releasing a series of full-lengths including Memórias (2015), Mundo Inóspito (2016), Réquiem (2016), and Clamor, alongside splits with acts such as Invernium, crafting layered, melancholic black metal with ambient and doom overtones.
Abisme is a death and black metal band from Barcelona, Spain, with roots in 2017 and Swedish death metal influences, whose debut album As Fear Falls In delivers six tracks of blackened death metal serving as a voice against patriarchal consumer society. The band was founded by Joan, Anna, Uri, and Manel, with artwork created by Anna and the album self-produced and mixed by Joan.
Depressive black metal and blackened doom project from Betim, Minas Gerais, formed in 2016 by two members credited only as Depression 3 and Depression 4. Signed to Depressive Illusions Records, the project has released a dense catalog of material including the debut demo Ouça Minha Angústia and full-length Infortúnio (both 2016), followed by numerous albums exploring themes of suicide, loneliness, and cosmic nihilism with long-form, slow-burning compositions.
Black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2009 and part of the city's ongoing underground extreme metal tradition. They debuted with the demo Tétricos Amanheceres in 2009, drawing on raw South American black metal aesthetics rooted in the legacy established by earlier São Paulo acts.
Abissal was a black metal band from São Francisco do Sul, Santa Catarina, in southern Brazil. Operating from 2018 until their dissolution, the band played raw, underground black metal with themes rooted in darkness and anti-Christianity, in the tradition of the Brazilian underground extreme metal scene.
Abisso delivers black metal from Cagliari, the Sardinian capital perched above the Mediterranean, since 2023. Their Italian name meaning 'abyss' drives a sound that plunges into the deepest registers of darkness from this island outpost.
Abiura has practiced death metal from Cagliari since 2021, adding to Sardinia's growing extreme metal community. Their name, Italian for 'abjuration' or 'recantation,' speaks to a rejection of orthodoxy that their brutal approach embodies.
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