Abigail Williams is a metal band hailing from Phoenix, Cleveland, NYC, New Jersey, and southern california. The band melds together influences from melodic death metal, black metal, and, on earlier material, metalcore. As of 2008 they have developed a sound more akin to symphonic black metal than their earlier material. Abigail Williams broke into the scene in summer of 2005 playing a sort of melodic death metal with keyboards but it wasn’t until fall of 2006 when the band refined it’s sound, losing the original singer while original guitar player Sorceron moved to vocals to opt for a more aggressive approach, with the track “Watchtower” shaping the sound of the band into what Kerrang! Magazine has called “The bloody birth of ‘Black Metalcore’” (though the band will not agree with the label).