Abysmalia initiated its career as a one-man-project in 2007 when Jouni Koskela decided to upload an extended play entitled "The Sewage of Lies" featuring songs he'd been putting together so far. Enthused by the relatively positive feedback, he decided to write more material.
Ever since that time, Abysmalia has gained more members (Antti Jylhä on bass guitar in 2008 and Marko Nikula on clean vocals in 2009) and released three intertwining conceptual full-lengths up-to-date. The music is inspired by the surrounding environment and freedom of self-expression and therefore is not strictly limited to any sub-category of the metal genre.
MEMBERS:
Jouni Koskela - Vocals, Guitars, Programming (since 2007)
Marko Nikula - Lead Clean Vocals (since 2009)
Antti Jylhä - Bass Guitar (since 2008)
Tiina Hietala - Session Female Vocals (on "Wolves among Wolves")
Ville Suorsa - Guest Guitar Solo (on "Sons of Perdition")
Panu Rauhala - Session Keyboards (on "Sons of Perdition", "By a Sickening Reverie" and "The Naiad of Dawn")
DISCOGRAPHY:
Replenish Entirety [released 2nd of April 2010]
Quid Humanum Est [released 8th of April 2009]
Portals to Psychotic Inertia [released 30th of June 2008]
The Sewage of Lies EP [released 20th of August 2007]
Interview below updated June 2010.
JK: Abysmalia is strictly a studio project at the moment due to the fact that all permanent members are scattered across Finland.
JK: There's a lot of them, mostly because I tend to subconsciously absorb good elements here and there without particular boundaries. The attempt to not sound like a direct copy of anything is however a conscious choice. If I really had to name a few which have had conscious impact on my songwriting, I'd name The Haunted, Emperor, Thorns, Frost*, Opeth and Meshuggah.
