A Sonication

Virtuoso death metal comes in numerous forms, but few are as definitive or undeniable as the shiny, immaculate strain of cerebral tech-death that OBSCURA have been propagating for the last 23 years. In fact, since 2009's breakthrough release "Cosmogenesis", the Germans have been a rarely disputed benchmark for the entire genre. Over subsequent years, founder and chief composer Steffen Kummerer (also frontman with black metal bombers THULCANDRA) has certainly refined and expanded OBSCURA's rem...

Die Unbeirrbarkeit, mit der OBSCURA-Kopf Steffen Kummerer seine Vision von progressivem Death Metal umsetzt, beeindruckt insbesondere vor dem Hintergrund, dass er für „A Sonication“ (mal wieder) seine komplette Hintermannschaft ausgewechselt und quasi „nebenbei“ einen Haufen Hammersongs geschrieben hat.