Italian doom metal occultists Abysmal Grief to release a compilation album »Despise The Living, Desecrate The Dead« on March 31st via Avantgarde Music

Italian doom metal occultists Abysmal Grief are gearing up to release a compilation album »Despise The Living, Desecrate The Dead« on March 31st, 2023 via Avantgarde Music featuring outtakes and unused material from the period 2016-2021.

Listen to the first track »Missa Est« below!

Tracklist:
01. White Coffins
02. Mortician
03. A Forest Mass
04. Missa Est
05. March Macabre
06. The Curse Of The Toad
07. Estremo Dolore
08. Arcanum Magisterium
09. Ancient Obituaries

Courtesy of Metaversus PR:

Some things are just supposed to happen. Avantgarde Music and Abysmal Grief have been on this earth for almost three decades, dealing with the dark and obscure, and only miles apart. Yet, they never worked together. Until now.

»Despise The Living, Desecrate The Dead« is a compilation of “outtakes, oddities and unused material from the period 2016-2021” marking the beginning of the cooperation between the record label from Milan and the long-standing occult metal band from Genoa.

In the words of guitarist Regen Graves, »Despise The Living…« contains “songs recorded and mixed in our studio along the last few years, with different line-ups, that for a number of reasons were never included in previous releases”. Among these are covers of obscure, dark Italian bands of old, a doom metal rework of a funeral march from the ’50s, and of course a number of new Abysmal Grief songs.

Due to the particular nature of its genesis, »Despise The Living, Desecrate The Dead« will be released in a limited, vinyl only run, on March 31st, 2023. Find digital pre-orders at Bandcamp HERE.

Line-up:
Regen Graves: Guitars, Synths, Keyboards, Drums
Labes C. Necrothytus: Vocals, Keyboards
Lord Alastair: Bass

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well