ABNEGATION

Abnegation was a metalcore/deathcore band from Erie, Pennsylania, USA, active from 1992 to 1999. The band began as a vision of Jason 'Iggy' Imig and Paul Nowoczynski to showcase their hardline straight-edge political views. Their lyrics and music, delivered with anger and urgency, became an altar for expressing their strong opinions on issues such as animal rights, abortion, environmentalism, and drugs. The band's musical style switched to death metal on their 1999 full-length album Verses of the Bleeding, the band broke up the same year.

More dubious stuff for my blogspot! This is Satanic Pro-Life Hardline 90's Metalcore/Black Metal!There are enough (well-written) blogspot posts about this band, for example the one at Path To Misery, but somehow none of them put up a "complete" discography... So it is up to me - at least I wont have to say much about them! ;-) Just know, if you want to check them out,  that they "really" changed their style and genre during their releases! Their first Demo Life For A Life and the 7" Extinguish The Sickness were Metallic Hardcore, the 7" more in the direction of Metalcore, but still comparable to other  Vegan Straight Edge 90's Metalcore Bands from that era. In The Eye Of The Storm and Sown In The Remains already had some serious Black Metal influence and let, together with the As The Stone Strikes The Cedar Session & their Split with Chapter, guess what would follow - Verses Of The Bleeding and their two final tracks from the  One Hell Of A Compilation - pure black metal with some grindcore influence. Still Hardline and Pro-Life, but more and more Satanic lyrics.

Lineup

Dave Steele - Bass, Vocals (1992-1998) (ex-Black Moon Mistress)
Chris Leonard - Drums (1994-1998)
Doug Corey - Guitars (1996-1998) (Village of Dead Roads, Abjection Ritual, ex-Cotton Candy)
Nick Lewis - Bass (1998) (ex-Papercut Homicide, ex-Red Sky)

Release

A Life for a Life ' Demo 1993      
Extinguish the Sickness ' EP 1994      
In the Eye of the Storm ' EP 1995      
Sown in the Remains ' EP 1995      
...as Stone Strikes the Cedar ' Demo 1996      
Abnegation / Chapter ' Split 1996    
Verses of the Bleeding ' Full-length 1997