Iowa black metal crust band DRYAD share a beautiful narration to their bleak new album “The Abyssal Plain”

DRYAD are releasing their epic debut full length, their first new music since signing to Prosthetic Records, today! The 13 track album – titled The Abyssal Plain – takes listeners on a literal and metaphorical explorative trip to the darkest depths of the ocean, and today we’re thrilled to take you to an ethereal journey into the depths of its lyrical content. DRYAD’s take on black metal is as abrasive and primeval as you would hope from a band that draws their biggest lyrical influences from the furthest reaches of the ocean floor, far from even the weakest tendrils of sunlight. Their stygian take on the genre is chaotic and suitably lo-fi, but on The Abyssal Plain, the oppressive cacophony is punctuated with synth-heavy interludes heavily inspired by 80s horror mo...

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