Out now, Interminable End, the debut album from Abyssery, ostensibly the solo project of guitarist and composer Brian Doherty, but also featuring James Stewart (ex-Vader, Decapitated) on drums and vocalist Rafał ‘Rasta’ Piotrowski (ex-Decapitated) on the track ‘The Crushing Weight of Eternity’.
Written, recorded, and refined in isolation, Interminable End is being described as a “deeply personal response to an increasingly hostile world, casting its central character, and listener, into a metaphysical hellscape.” Here, identity is stripped, suffering is endless, and death offers no release – It’s a conceptual descent into torment, control, and cosmic despair.
“This is a record born of obsession,” said Doherty. “It’s a purge of everything that’s been building internally for years, a love letter to death metal as both catharsis and storytelling tool. It’s also about the idea of punishment without purpose, and how that reflects where the world is heading.”
Drawing influence from death-doom, dissonant black metal, and the suffocating atmosphere of acts like Ulcerate and Krypts, ‘Interminable End’ is said to be both unflinching and immersive. The record’s visual aesthetic, from the artwork to its cryptic lyrical motifs, enhances the sense of unease, questioning what it means to be human in a world built to erase.
Available via all major digital platform and Bandcamp, Interminable End features the tracks: ‘Antechamber (Prelude)’, ‘Vortex Of Oneiric Visions’, ‘Entering The Void’, ‘Sadistic Sentence’, Liminal Prison (Interlude)’,’Entropic Enslavement’, ‘Interminable End’ and ‘Immiseration’ – It is available here.
Also out now, new single ‘Vortex of Oneiric Visions’, accompanied by a video created by Miles Skarin at Crystal Spotlight. Inspired directly by the album’s lyrics and artwork, the visualiser plunges viewers into a kaleidoscopic, reality-warping freefall through cosmic terror and shifting dimensions.
“It’s a relentless, mind-altering descent through a swirling, chaotic vortex,” said Doherty. “The tram blast sections sound like a freight train and give the sensation of hurtling through a tunnel towards some tyrannous, inescapable abyss. The riffs constantly evolve to express the disorientation and instability of that journey.”
The track features as a pivotal chapter in the album’s overarching narrative, that follows an unnamed pariah banished to an oppressive underworld, a metaphorical and metaphysical prison constructed by an unseen force. Interminable End captures this exile with suffocating intensity, weaving together.
