ABYSMAL LORD Disciples Of The Inferno CD (2015)

New Orleans has given the world a lot of things, most of them involving excess and ritual, so it makes a certain kind of sense that it also produced Abysmal Lord, a band operating at the filthiest end of black/death metal with the kind of devotion to ugliness that most acts spend years trying to fake.

Disciples of the Inferno, their 2015 debut full-length, is war metal in the tradition of Revenge and Archgoat but with a swamp rot underneath it, something specific to Louisiana that you cannot replicate in a practice room in a colder climate. If Bestial Warlust is in your collection and you have been working your way through the Profound Lore and Nuclear War Now catalogs, this belongs next to them. Uncompromising, lo-fi by conviction, and completely committed to the aesthetic that the best black metal has always been about atmosphere through punishment rather than prettiness.

CD. Full-length debut album, 2015. USA press, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Fans of: Goatblood, Blood Chalice, Revenge, Bestial Warlust, Archgoat