Jokes off, “Diluvium” is a very good album. Obscura manage properly all their technical skills with strong, harsh, and cruel songs. Songs like “The Seventh Aeon” and “Ekpyrosis” also balance atmospheres with wonderful bass lines. Pay close attention to “A Last Farewell” and its awesome fingered bass line. It’s a killer! Bassist Linus Klausenitzer and drummer Sebastian Lanser are destroying with their conventions. Pay attention to the beginning of “The Conjuration” and the aforementioned songs. There you can see why the bass drums have this name. Nonethless, guitar riffs are such killers as well. Phrases are very well built as in “An Epilogue to Infinity.” Yeah, my boys and girls, it’s not enough to fast to be a good guitar player these days. One needs to write complex, and fast, phrases to be considered great. Of course, a little swing helps a lot.
For some it’s only one more shreding show off album, but to those who admire good music, “Diluvium” is great. We should never forget that Metal is a musicial moviment. So, music must be beyond. For Obscura guys it is. I have no doubt about that. It’s not only the complex playing, it’s also the good songwriting.
Obscura “Diluvium” will be released on July 13th via Relapse Records.
Track Listing:
- Clandestine Stars
- Emergent Evolution
- Diluvium
- Mortification of the Vulga
- Ethereal Skies
- Convergence
- Ekpyrosis
- The Seventh Aeon
- The Conjuration
- An Epilogue to Infinity
- A Last Farewell
Watch “Emergent Evolution” official video here:
I’m just a lucky guy who has chosen metal to live with for a long time. Metal changed my life for good. It made me more confident and stronger. Metalheads are naturally far away from the mass mediocrity and don’t accept impostures from anybody else. Metal is more than music, it’s a life changing oportunity!