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Abyssous are a death metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, who describe their craft as 'ghastly death shrouded in musick.' Their 2019 album Mesa, released through Iron Bonehead Productions and recorded between 2016 and 2017, features ten tracks of murky, otherworldly death metal with invented song titles that mirror the alien strangeness of their sound.
Abyssphere has delivered gothic, doom, and death metal from Saint Petersburg since 2010. Over fifteen years from Russia's cultural capital, they have created elaborate compositions that plumb the depths of romantic darkness.
A death metal band from the Harz mountain region of Germany, Abyssthrone have been active since 2015 with releases including the Deathbringer EP and Necropolis Inferno. Their dark, infernal aesthetic and geographic roots in Germany's most mythologized mountain range lend their output a suitably ominous character.
AbyssTod merges black and death metal from Goleniów in West Pomerania since 2023. Their hybrid name combining English and German words for 'death' speaks to the cross-cultural extremity of their northwestern Polish metal.
Abyssum Chaos practices black metal from Bari, Puglia's Adriatic capital, since 2021. Their name — combining Latin and Greek words for void and disorder — encapsulates the nihilistic turbulence at the heart of their Mediterranean black metal.
Abyssus is a black metal band from Acworth, Georgia. Active since 2012, the band has built a discography of six releases including splits, EPs, and full-lengths, with 2022's "Death Revival" marking their most recent assault of orthodox black metal.
Dallas, Texas thrash metal project. The Latin-styled spelling of 'abyss' adds classical gravitas to DFW thrash.
Intense Heavy Metal from El Paso.
Abytheon is an atmospheric doom and progressive death metal band from Portland, Oregon. Their 2019 EP "The Mists of Ithriel (Part 2)" weaves epic, fantasy-tinged narratives through a foundation of crushing doom and progressive death metal.
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