Axis Of Metal and Abyss Records have teamed again to release a sampler that opens the door to the exquisite metal Abyss purveys. This twenty-five track compilation is a window into the audile madness that is Abyss Records.

Throughout the course of this twenty-five track compilation you will make your way through a war-zone of extreme metal of the highest pedigree. This journey will consist of the many different incarnations of extreme metal ranging from black metal, thrash metal, death’n’roll, death metal among the many other varieties the fine folks at Abyss boast.

The Best Of The Abyss tracklisting is as follows:

ASTROPHOBOS (Sweden) - 'Soul Disruptor' taken from their upcoming 2013 full length Remnants of Forgotten Horrors

DEAD AWAKEN (Sweden) - 'Carnivore' taken from their upcoming 2013 full length Where Hope Turns Dripping Red

SEPTEKH (Sweden) - 'Burn it to the Ground' taken from upcoming 2013 EP Apollonian Eyes

ANGREPP (Sweden) - 'Five Horned Formation' taken from their 2010 full length Warfare

CHRIST BEHEADED (US) - 'The Cleansing Ritual' taken from their 2008 EP Open the Gates of Hell

BANE (Serbia) - 'World of Desolation' taken from their 2012 full length The Acausal Fire

CORROSIVE CARCASS (Sweden) - 'Butchershop' taken from their 2012 full length Composition of Flesh

DAEMONICUS (Sweden) - 'Inhabited' taken from their 2012 full length Deadwork

DESULTOR (Sweden) - 'Another World' taken from their 2012 full length Masters of Hate

DISEIM (Latvia) - 'Insanity' taken from their 2012 full length Holy Wrath

ENTRENCH (Sweden) - 'As Dawn Breaks' taken from their 2011 full length Inevitable Decay

ERUPTED (Sweden) - 'In the Grip of Chaos' taken from their 2012 full length In the Grip of Chaos

ETERNAL HELCARAXE (Ireland) - 'Echoes Through Our Blood' taken from their 2012 full length Against All Odds

FETUS STENCH (Sweden) - 'Stillborn Son' taken from their 2012 full length Stillbirth

FESTER (Norway) - 'The Black Tower' taken from their 2012 full length A Celebration of Death

HUMANGLED (Italy) - 'Skinned, to Feel All' taken from their 2012 EP Odd Ethics

HAT (Norway) - 'Tilintetgjørelsen' taken from their 2011 full length Vortex of Death

MAAX (US) - 'Fight With Fire' taken from their 2011 full length Unholy Rock & Roll

HYPERBOREAN (Sweden) - 'The Last Stand of Leonidas and the Battle of Thermopylae' taken from their 2011 full length The Spirit of Mankind

NOCTIS IMPERIUM (Venezuela) - 'Descensus ad inferos' taken from their 2010 EP Nihil

RADIATION SICKNESS (US) - 'Tripping in the Seas of Madness' taken from their 2012 full lenth Reflections of a Psychotic Past

ROCKING CORPSES (Finland) - 'Necropolis' taken from their 2012 full length Rock ‘n’ Rott

SOUTHWICKED (US) - 'Green River Killing Fields' taken from their 2012 full length Death’s Crown

The GARDNERZ (Sweden) - 'Don’t Look Back' taken from their 2012 EP It All Fades

The GATES OF SLUMBER (US) - 'The Judge' taken from their 2012 Reissued full length …the Awakening

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