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Munich, Germany |
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Death Metal |
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Page online:
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November 18, 2008
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Last update/review:
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October 31, 2022
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Obscura
Formed in 2002 by guitarist/vocalist Steffen Kummerer and presumably
named after the classic
Gorguts
album,
Obscura impressively debuted in 2006 with
Retribution, a self-released
effort that later won them a contract with
Relapse
Records where they released several albums.
Though not quite as wacky as Gorguts, this is nevertheless
highly-charged technical yet brutal thrash-tinged death metal with a
fair degree of variation and excellent musicianship that contrasts nicely
with the brutal riffing.
Kummerer has overhauled the lineup several times over the years,
most recently after
2018's
Diluvium when the other three guys all left and later emerged
with their own band,
Obsidious.
Two of the eventual replacements were in fact returning core members
of the
group, in the form of
well-travelled guitarist Christian Münzner and
bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling.
Recent album: A Celebration I - Live In North America,
released on October 27, 2023.
Former Members/Guests
Markus Lempsch
guitars
Tom Geldschläger
guitars
Rafael Trujillo
guitars (Obsidious)
Jonas Fischer
bass
Linus Klausenitzer
bass (Alkaloid, Eternity's End, guest for Hannes Grossmann, Noneuclid, Obsidious)
Jonas Baumgartl
drums
Hannes Grossmann
drums (Alkaloid, Blotted Science, Eternity's End, Hate Eternal, Hannes Grossmann, Howling Sycamore, ex-Necrophagist, Triptykon)
Sebastian Lanser
drums (guest for Belphegor, guest for Edenbridge, Obsidious)
Discography
Retribution
2006
Vots
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- Humankind
- Nothing
- Unhinged
- None Shall Be Spared
- Alone
- Hymn to A Nocturnal Visitor
- Intoxicated
- Exit Life
- Sentiment
- Sweet Silence
- Lack of Compehension
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-
Steffen Kummerer
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Markus Lempsch
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Jonas Fischer
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Jonas Baumgartl
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Cosmogenesis
2009
Relapse
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- Anticosmic Overload
- Choir of Spirits
- Universe Momentum
- Incarnated
- Orbital Elements
- Desolate Spheres
- Infinite Rotation
- Noosphere
- Cosmogenesis
- Centric Flow
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-
Steffen Kummerer
-
Christian Münzner
-
Jeroen Paul Thesseling
-
Hannes Grossmann
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2009 Readers' Album
#16
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Omnivium
2011
Relapse
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- Septuagint
- Vortex Omnivium
- Ocean Gateways
- Euclidean Elements
- Prismal Dawn
- Celestial Spheres
- Velocity
- A Transcendental Serenade
- Aevum
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-
Steffen Kummerer
-
Christian Münzner
-
Jeroen Paul Thesseling
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Hannes Grossmann
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2011 Readers' Album
#36
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Illegimitation
COMPILATION
2012
Relapse
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- ...and All Will Come to an End
- Crucified
- Fear
- Immanent Desaster
- Incarnated
- Open the Gates
- Headworm
- Flesh and the Power it Holds
- Piece of Time
- How Could I
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Akróasis
2016
Relapse
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- Sermon of the Seven Suns
- The Monist
- Akróasis
- Ten Sepiroth
- Ode to the Sun
- Fractal Dimension
- Perpetual Infinity
- Weltseele
- The Origin of Primal Expression
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-
Steffen Kummerer
-
Tom Geldschläger
-
Linus Klausenitzer
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Sebastian Lanser
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Diluvium
2018
Relapse
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- Clandestine Stars
- Emergent Evolution
- Diluvium
- Mortification of the Vulgar Sun
- Ethereal Skies
- Convergence
- Ekpyrosis
- The Seventh Aeon
- The Conjuration
- An Epilogue to Infinity
- A Last Farewell (Bonus Track)
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-
Steffen Kummerer
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Rafael Trujillo
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Linus Klausenitzer
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Sebastian Lanser
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A Valediction
2021
Nuclear Blast
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- Forsaken
- Solaris
- A Valediction
- When Stars Collide
- In Unity
- Devoured Usurper
- The Beyond
- Orbital Elements II
- The Neuromancer
- In Adversity
- Heritage
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-
Steffen Kummerer
-
Christian Münzner
-
Jeroen Paul Thesseling
-
David Diepold
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A Celebration I - Live In North America
LIVE
2023
Nuclear Blast
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- Forsaken
- Emergent Evolution
- Ode to the Sun
- The Anticosmic Overload
- Septuagint
- A Valediction
- Ocean Gateways
- Akroasis
- Orbital Elements II
- Incarnated
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-
Steffen Kummerer
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Christian Münzner
-
David Diepold
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