Abigail Williams is an American black metal band, originally from Phoenix, Arizona, but now based in Olympia, Washington.

Shortly after an eight-week tour in support of their debut full-length album In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns (2008), vocalist Ken Sorceron would become the only original member remaining.

Bergeron was previously the bassist of the Arizonan industrial rock band Victims in Ecstacy,[2] and also participated in various hardcore and metal acts around Phoenix.

[3] Abigail Williams' first songs were six demo tracks that were streamed on the band's Myspace profile with a sound described by the band as having "the groove and melody of Gothenburg style death metal, the face smashing breakdowns of the hardcore scene, topped with the bombastic and epic approach favored by the frostbitten black metal hordes".

Three of these demo tracks would be re-recorded for the Legend EP, including "Melquiades (The Great Work)", which was re-titled "The Conqueror Wyrm" and "Swollen Disgust", which was released as "Like Carrion Birds".

[8] Sorceron and Wilson continued playing together in another band, and eventually asked the original Abigail Williams bassist Thomas G. Plaguehammer to join them on drums.

Arthur Miller's The Crucible brought Abigail Williams, one of the original and foremost accusers in the Salem witch trials of 1692, to their attention.

Abigail Williams released the deluxe edition of In the Shadow of a Thousand Suns on January 12, 2010, which included a second disc featuring four new songs, one unreleased demo of "Floods," and the music video for "Into the Ashes".

[19] On March 19, 2018, Sorceron announced his departure from the technical death metal band The Faceless on his Facebook page, and would be putting his focus on finishing the next Abigail Williams album.

[20] On November 14, 2019, Abigail Williams released their fifth studio album titled Walk Beyond the Dark featuring seven songs.