Originally published in late 2023, the first installment in the Abysm series has been reprinted due to demand in a new limited-edition of one hundred copies, each one hand-numbered and hand-assembled, after the first run blew out of here super-fast. This new "second edition" of Abysm Volume I: A-E features a new full-color cover and artwork different from the first version, with revised artwork from series artist KHVLTVS.

This is the first in an ongoing series of zine-style books under the Abysm banner, sub-titled "The Incomplete Crucial Blast Guide To Black Noise, Necro-Industrial, And Ambient Filth". Should give you somewhat of an idea of what this is all about: the Abysm series collects various writing, reviews, and short essays from yours truly (CB scribe Adam Allbright) that pulls from the Crucial Blast archives, featuring material that ranges from 1999 through 2024, over two decades of documenting the weird and malevolent. This half-size ( 8.5" x 5") tome is packed with over sixty black & white pages of ravenous writing on the field of "black noise", "black industrial", the noisiest fringes of black metal, the most depraved edges of blackened ambient music, and similar gnarly, mutated sound from the pit and the horizons of this rotting planet. With revised and updated writing, some never before published and others dredged from the further reaches of the ancient internet, this first issue focuses on bands from A to E, collating work on the likes of Abruptum, Demonologists, Emit, Aderlating, Aghast, Blue Sabbath Black Cheer, and many other denizens of the sub-necro underground. We're talking the creepiest, strangest, most unique music that I've discussed over the years. With a style that sometimes verges on prose-poetry, these writings appear as frantic scratches on the walls of the asylum, confronting the most horrific and mesmerizing weirdness emerging from underneath the underbelly of esoteric underground sound.

As with subsequent editions in the series, Abysm I is splattered with weird diabolical artwork and messed-up collage art alongside the writing. Likewise, each installment of Abysm features new and original artwork from Crucial Blast favorite KHVLTVS, whose crazed imagery graces both the inside and outside covers of each issue. Housed inside of a resealable mylar sleeve with an outer descriptive label.