A Brussels death metal quintet risen from the ashes of Dehuman, featuring members also known from Putrid Offal, Neptunian Maximalism, and Saqra's Cult. Their 2025 debut LP Dismal Thoughts, released on Nuclear Winter Records, channels old-school death metal filtered through a doom-laden, Incantation-adjacent atmosphere with notable progressive and black metal undercurrents.

Abysmal Dissonance are a death metal band from the Linz-Land district of Upper Austria with a raw, grinding approach evident in track titles like 'Life Termination,' 'The Chainsaw,' and 'Impending Doom.' The band operates deep in the underground with minimal public profile, releasing their material through their own Bandcamp page.

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.

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.

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.

Abyss Nöir blends progressive black and death metal from an undisclosed Italian location since 2020. Their Franco-English name adds a cosmopolitan flair to the technical ambition of their genre-crossing compositions.