Abyssal

A Beacon In The Husk

Profound Lore

Otherworldly mysterious UK dark ambient death metal entity Abyssal have completed work on their fourth opus A Beacon In The Husk. Standing as the band’s most colossal and ambitious offering yet, this latest stretches the Abyssal sound into even darker, more abstract, noiser, and progressive realms than anything within their previous repertoire. Four years following the acclaimed Antikatastaseis observation, an album that took a slightly more structured approach to their enveloping horror, and one that escalated the band into one of the most prominent death metal artists emerging from the UK, A Beacon In The Husk brings the audial terror to a whole new suffocating and insanely complex level, making it their most outré album to date.

Abyssal

Antikatastaseis

Profound Lore

Abyssal have always been a low-profile entity within the death metal scene. Even though their new album Antikatastaseis is their third, the band’s previous two were primarily self-released digitally (where they were available for free) and via CDR for anyone who requested a physical copy of their work. The band never partook in any live activities, interviews or any kind of promotion. When Profound Lore happened across their 2013 album Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius, the label offered to release this mesmerizing death metal recording officially in a limited run. The collaboration helped spread awareness of a band responsible for some of the most intriguing death metal coming out today—whose vicious brutality, technicality and dark, foreboding atmospherics draw comparisons to the likes of Portal, Impetuous Ritual, Ulcerate and Mitochondrion. With Antikatastaseis, Abyssal deliver the most intriguing, most brutal and darkest death metal release of the year, solidifying their place as one of the best bands coming out of the UK today alongside Grave Miasma and Cruciamentum. By taking their musical fortitude to yet more melodic and technical heights, Abyssal have raised a bar in the genre of death metal.

Abyssal

Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius

Profound Lore

Abyssal are a mysterious trio from the UK that plays death metal in a twisted, avant-garde manner, encapsulating pure dread and inevitable doom. Their self-released 2012 debut full-length, titled Denouement, seemed to come out of nowhere, flying mainly under the radar of the metal scene, yet its angular, unorthodox take showed immense promise.  On January 1st, 2013, Abyssal unleashed Novit Enim Dominus Qui Sunt Eius on an unsuspecting public. A true vision of death metal horror, it takes the inverted hypnosis of Blut Aus Nord and filters it through the likes of Mitochondrion, Portal and Antediluvian.  The self-distributed album caught the ear of forward-thinking metal label Profound Lore, who agreed to make it widely available for the first time with a proper release, putting the obscure trio within the elite circle of UK death metal dread alongside Grave Miasma, Curciamentum and Indesinence.