Abysm Sign to Desert Records for EP Series
Posted in Whathaveyou on February 1st, 2021 by JJ KoczanCork, Ireland’s Abysm released the debut EP, A Grim Reminder, in October 2020. The project was founded as a solo endeavor split off from Worn Out during lockdown. One suspects 2021 is going to bring a lot of quarantine-era solo outfits, and fair enough. For Abysm, the debut EP is reportedly to begin a series, which it’s now been announced will be released through Desert Records. A Grim Reminder, then, is the first installment of a trilogy of short releases. Not like there wasn’t time to come up with plenty of stuff.
The plot thickens when the band hints at lineup expansion, i.e. becoming a band rather than a project, and adding vocals to what was instrumental initially. How that means A Grim Reminder will serve as a lead-in to the series it’s beginning, I don’t know. Depends on how the progression of what Abysm is/does plays out over the subsequent releases. We could just be hearing an extended intro this time around, which I find fascinating.
Here’s the announcement from the PR wire, spliced with a few words from Abysm when the EP came out:
Abysm – Desert Records
Please welcome the sludge metal project ABYSM to Desert Records.
Based out of Cork, Ireland (a city I absolutely love), I’m very happy to bring you the first EP, A Grim Reminder.
The EP is up on Bandcamp now! It’s NYP.
Please support this and pay whatever you can afford if you’re digging this. $1 from many supporters can really help a band these days.
The big news: Desert Records will be releasing a trilogy of EP’s from ABYSM this this year.
“I have been putting a lot of work into piecing this together and I couldn’t be more proud of the outcome,” says Abysm. “The process of creating a follow up is well underway and expect some new things from the next release, and also some vocals as well, but more on that on when the time is right.”
EP2 and EP3 will continue the story arc of EP1.
Dig it here:
abysm-sludge.bandcamp.com/album/a-grim-reminder
https://www.facebook.com/ABYSMNOISE/
https://abysm-sludge.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/desertrecordslabel/
https://desertrecords.bandcamp.com/
https://desertrecords.bigcartel.com/
