Ukraine/US Blackened Death Metal duo, Lava Abyss, featuring Mike Poggione (ex-Monstrosity, Vile) on bass, recorded their debut album, Sacrificial Ritual of Primordial Fire, back in 2021. Now, three years later, the album is finally being officially released on CD via Archivist Records. You can now order the album and merch here: https://archivist-records.com/?s=Lava+Abyss, and listen to it here: https://open.spotify.com/album/3FqU6tY34Fq3qUwIDjAlIX.
"... Although this kind of black/death hybrid music generally focuses on its textural components, Lava Abyss allow the chord tension to wane enough so that fierce riffs have room to emerge, at times with flashes of high melodicism. Songs have distinctive flow, permitting bleak themes to materialize and develop in relentless fashion. Venerableness is on display with the addition of angular bass tintinnabulations, which in turn grant the music surprising depth. ..." - No Clean Singing
LAVA ABYSS is a Ukrainian / American Plague Metal band from Kyiv. The lyrical themes have not traditionally pertained to anti-Christianity, lyrics showing the stupidity of all kinds of religions and any egregors overshadowing the true earthly problems, such as the mass capitalization race, the pollution of the planet and the naivety of humanity through the epic and misanthropic lyrics wording of musicians...