Abyss
by Chelsea Wolfe

Abyss by Chelsea Wolfe
Year: 2015
Release date: 2015-08-07
Overall rank: 5,045th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 88 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2015 (93rd)
Award Top albums of the 2010s (904th)
Award Best albums of all time (5,045th)

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Chelsea Wolfe bestography

Abyss is ranked 2nd best out of 9 albums by Chelsea Wolfe on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Chelsea Wolfe is She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She which is ranked number 4881 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 287.

Chelsea Wolfe album bestography « Higher ranked (4,881st)
She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She
This album (5,045th)
Abyss
Lower ranked (5,582nd) »
Pain Is Beauty

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Abyss rankings

Rankings summary
Overall rank: 5,045th | 2010s rank: 904th | 2015 rank: 93rd
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2026 imacgillTop 100 Music Albums of 201561/1002
2026 zags7000Overall 101-20099/100 -
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s58/1009
2026Steppenwolf666Top 100 Music Albums of 201582/1001
2026 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of 20153/1005
2026mutantTop 100 Music Albums of the 2010s66/1007
2026jdizzle123456Top 100 Music Albums of 201545/1003
2026LittleM1971Top 100 Music Albums of 201528/1004
2026 LedZepTop 51 Music Albums of 201523/513
2026 ExTeaSeaTop 100 Music Albums of 20157/1005
2026 zags7000Top 100 Music Albums of the 2010s37/10013
2025JohnnyoAlbums of the year 2015 by Bearded Gentlemen Music19/97 -
2025cicadelicAustin Town Hall The Top 50 Albums 201550/50 -
2025 PurplepashTop 100 Music Albums of 201529/1004
2025 cestuneblagueTop 100 Music Albums of 201539/1003
2025VanillaBeanTop 73 Music Albums of 201513/734
2025 RockyRaccoon2015 Honorable Mentions22/100 -
2025cicadelicLa Presse Les meilleurs albums de l'année 20153/17 -
2025 desh79Top 100 Music Albums of 201578/1001
2025juanr1096Top 99 Music Albums of 201528/994
Total Charts: Help The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. 83
Total Rank Score: Help The total rank score. 276
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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 88 votes)
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02/28/2026 02:42 ExTeaSea  Ratings distribution  5,20283/100
 
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02/05/2026 16:54 LedZep  Ratings distribution  5,02079/100
 
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01/26/2026 13:10 TonySayers61  Ratings distribution  24,54164/100
 
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12/20/2025 22:50 zags7000  Ratings distribution  20,46864/100

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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.2.

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85/100
From 06/24/2019 01:48 | #238146
It's dark, it's beautiful and it's awesome. She's like the female Trent Reznor.
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From 04/04/2016 14:28 | #163286
Emotionally charged, crushing and compelling to the nth degree. Every song is beautifully punctuated with Chelsea Wolfe's mesmeric, haunting and brooding voice sparingly contrasted against massive, industrial, eruptions of synthesisers and doom-metal guitars; Carrion Flowers and After the Fall are my personal highlights. Crazy Love and Simple Death serve as the two weakest songs on the album, but are by no means unworthy of a place on the album. 85/100.
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From 12/07/2015 21:03 | #154083
There's three or four standout tracks and those are great, but the rest really sounds the same to me.
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Rating:  
70/100
From 09/20/2015 01:11 | #150070
It was fine, i mean the first two tracks on the album are great and im like "wow, this is going to be a great album" to only be disappointed. It's not bad though, just wish i could get something more out of it.
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