Cosmogenesis
Obscura
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anticosmic Overload | Obscura | 4:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Choir of Spirits | Obscura | 5:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Universe Momentum | Obscura | 4:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Incarnated | Obscura | 4:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Orbital Elements | Obscura | 5:21 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Desolate Spheres | Obscura | 4:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Infinite Rotation | Obscura | 4:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | Noosphere | Obscura | 5:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Cosmogenesis | Obscura | 4:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | Centric Flow | Obscura | 7:25 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 10 Songs |
Album Review
Extreme metal can certainly be a very technically demanding musical style, but not exactly to the level of say, Dream Theater. But on their 2009 release, Cosmogenesis, Obscura certainly approach the same complex heights as the aforementioned band. In other words, lots of sweep picking, finger-straining riffing, impeccable drumming, and bass being played like a lead guitar. The only thing that separates this German quartet from all the other technical metal bands on the scene is that they're fronted by a death metal growler, Steffen Kummerer. Take your pick of any of the album's ten tracks, and be prepared to be met head on with metal so complex that you may need a compass to navigate your way through it.
Recent Customer Reviews
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by Weebalo BraniganWell these guys sure can play their instruments, espicially the bassist, and it's good to hear Hans play something that isn't just blast beats for 90% of the time. Christian's soloing has improved since Necrophagist. Unfortunately what we get is not an album of original material, but a hodgepodge of Death, Gorguts, Cynic, Atheist, et al riffs and ideas. Case in point, Incarnated. When I first heard it I loved it, then I realized the reason I loved was because it pretty much rips off everything Chuck Schunlder ever wrote. Noosphere is pure Cynic worship. Also for death metal there is very little brutality here. Even when they try to be brutal with blast beats and instense technical riffing it doesn't work.
Pure Masterpiece
by HelloWarsThis album is long overdue for me to write a review for, but here it is. This band deserves no less than five stars for this album by anyone. It is technical masterpiece that requires very very talented musicians. Constantly mixing it up and fast overall feel make you stand back in awe. Enough said.
Sick album.
by hybrid47This album is by what essentially constitutes a Death Metal supergroup with members from numerous big death metal bands. This album is cool because it is way out there, the musicianship is sort of remeniscent of Human through Sound of Perseverence era Death, the lyrics are also awesome because they have this running scifi theme which is very unusual even in cerebral death metal. The vocals aren't the best i have ever heard not David Vincent, Chuck Schuldiner, or Mikael Akerfeldt, but there above average, and it is a small complaint especially since the vocalist is also on lead guitar. Someone said this album is unoriginal and reminds them of Behemoth, but the only similarity between this and Behemoth is that they are DM, this is a very different subgenre, and this album isn't going for that sort of straight ahead brutality, it is more like meandering through little musical segues with some amazing bass not to mention.
Top Albums and Songs by Obscura
| Name | Album | Time | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anticosmic Overload | Cosmogenesis | 4:16 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Universe Momentum | Cosmogenesis | 4:33 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | Cosmogenesis | Cosmogenesis | 4:14 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | Incarnated | Cosmogenesis | 4:53 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Noosphere | Cosmogenesis | 5:04 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.90
- Genres: Rock, Music, Death Metal/Black Metal, Metal, Hard Rock
- Released: Feb 17, 2009
- ℗ 2009 Relapse Records
