Abysmal Growls of Despair delivers some of France's most crushing funeral doom and drone metal from Toulouse since 2013, creating compositions of glacial pace and suffocating atmosphere. Their descriptive name leaves nothing to the imagination about the depths of desolation their music explores.

Abysmal Rites conjures doom and sludge metal from Tampere since 2022, channeling the weight of Finland's heaviest traditions into ritualistic compositions. Their approach to the low-and-slow end of the spectrum draws from the region's deep doom metal legacy.

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.

Abyssian creates gothic and doom metal from Milan since 2014, their name suggesting the depths from which their darkly romantic sound emerges. Over a decade of activity has refined their blend of elegance and heaviness within Lombardy's metal scene.

Abyssic crafts symphonic doom and death metal from Haslum near Oslo since 2024, creating vast, orchestrally enriched compositions of crushing deliberation. Their cavernous name captures the oceanic depths their music plumbs.

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.

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.

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.