ABYSSAL RIFT
Abyssal Rift started in Columbus, Ohio, started in 2022. The brainchild of multi instrumentalist Max Auxier (6th Circle, Ash Prison). While primarily known as an industrial musician/producer, Abyssal Rift is the manifestation of Auxier’s long running history as a metalhead and fan of warped, abysmal death metal, particularly that of bands like Incantation, Immolation and Disembowelment, and of his lengthy experience as a music producer. Conceived within his Columbus OH home studio during the COVID pandemic, the band’s debut album “Extirpation Dirge” features Auxier has sole songwriter, also handling all guitars, basses, vocals and keys/synths on the album, with only the drum parts being outsourced to seasoned grindcore drummer (David Mahony of Unyielding Love). The tracks were then sent to Will Killingsworth of Dead Air for mix/master, completing Abyssal Rift’s debut abomination “Extirpation Dirge”, a thirty six-minute behemoth of abyssic, dark death metal shrouded in hallucinatory atmospheres and broken up by desolate, slow-crawling dark ambient-infused doom dirges. As a long time Sentient Ruin artist via his industrial projects 6th Circle and Ash Prison, Auxier joined the label’s ranks also with Abyssal Rift, and “Extirpation Dirge” saw the light in late 2023. At the same time Auxier began recruiting other musicians in the Columbus area to assemble a live lineup for the band and bring Abyssal Rift to a stage.