New Jersey death metal project. The name's ironic contrast with death metal's nihilism creates productive tension.

Heavy Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.

Abysmal Dawn is a death metal band from Los Angeles, California. One of the premier acts in modern American death metal, the band has delivered a consistently punishing catalog since the mid-2000s, with albums like "Obsolescence" and "Phylogenesis" showcasing their blend of technical precision and brute force.

Plover/Milwaukee, Wisconsin death metal project. Chaos at the bottom of the abyss, from two Wisconsin cities.

New Orleans death metal project. Crescent City extremity ruling from the deepest darkness of the NOLA underground.

Abysmal Piss is a brutal death metal and goregrind act from Ceres, California. With a 2018 demo and a 2019 promo, the band delivers the kind of guttural, low-budget extremity that thrives in the goregrind underground.

Colossal Blackened Death / Doom Metal out of Texas.

Sacramento death metal project. The name coinages a practitioner of the abysmal — a professional of the void.

Abyssal Frost is a blackened death metal band split between Atlanta, Georgia and Charlotte, North Carolina. From their 2020 EP "Antarsia" to their 2024 full-length "The Pyre Aflame," the band has honed a sound that merges black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal's crushing physicality.