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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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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.
Abyssium is a blackened death metal project from Santa Rosa, California. The band channels the darkest currents of the Northern California underground.
Abysskvlt creates funeral doom metal from Samara on the Volga since 2015. Their kvlt-spelled portmanteau signals allegiance to underground metal traditions while their funereal pace tests the limits of slowness.
Abysslooker crafts doom and post-metal from Samara since 2020. Their name — one who gazes into the abyss — invokes the Nietzschean warning that drives their contemplative Volga-born heaviness.
Abyssmo Metalterraneo channels power metal from Castellón de la Plana on Spain's east coast since 2015. Their portmanteau name combining 'Mediterranean' with 'metal' signals a sun-drenched, sea-influenced take on the power metal tradition.
Ohio black metal project. The portmanteau of abyss and lotus creates beautiful darkness from the Buckeye State.
A death-doom metal band from Speyer, Germany, Abyssopelagial take their name from the deepest ocean zone, crafting music they describe as coming 'from the depths of the deep sea.' Their 2024 debut Far from Sky is a six-track, fifty-one-minute immersion into crushing, oceanic heaviness that moves at the pace of tectonic plates.
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.
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