History
Abysmal Dawn was formed by Charles Elliott (guitars/vocals), Jamie Boulanger (guitars), and Terry Barajas (drums) who circulated a three-song demo in winter 2004. The demo garnered some attention for the band within the underground metal press circuit as well as helped them score gigs alongside Exodus, 3 Inches of Blood, Hate Eternal, Into Eternity and Aborted.
In November 2005, the band began work on what would become their first proper full-length From Ashes with engineer John Haddad (Intronaut, Eyes of Fire, Phobia). The resulting nine songs earned the band a remarkable international press response for a debut album. They embarked on a five-week U.S. tour alongside Six Feet Under and Decapitated, additionally playing as support throughout their home state with the likes of Suffocation, Emperor, Immortal, Goatwhore and Decrepit Birth.
In 2007, Abysmal Dawn played a handful of festivals (LA Murderfest, Gathering of the Sick, Burning Star Metal Fest, and more), but most of the band's time was devoted to writing and rehearsing new material for their follow-up to From Ashes. By November, Abysmal Dawn had entered Haddad's new studio to begin the next full-length.
Abysmal Dawn spent the next three-months in and out of the studio recording Programmed to Consume . In February 2008, Abysmal Dawn signed a deal with Relapse Records, making Programmed to Consume the band's label debut. Abysmal Dawn released this album on May 13 (May 19 internationally).
After three years passed since the release of Leveling the Plane of Existence, they finally released their fourth studio album, Obsolescence , on October 28, 2014, via Relapse Records. According to Abysmal Dawn's frontman Charles Elliott, the title of the album was "inspired by the term 'planned obsolescence', and is applied to all of mankind." [1] The Village Voice rated the latest album number one and called it "The closest thing to a perfect metal album that you will hear this year." [2]
Abysmal Dawn released their fifth studio album, Phylogenesis, through Season of Mist Records on April 17, 2020.
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