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Obscura - Akróasis



8.1 | 316 votes |
Release date: 5 February 2016
Style: Progressive death metal, Technical death metal

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01. Sermon Of The Seven Suns
02. The Monist
03. Akróasis
04. Ten Sepiroth
05. Ode To The Sun [feat. Maria Bullok and Monika Bullok]
06. Fractal Dimension
07. Perpetual Infinity
08. Weltseele [feat. Jupp Wegener, Matthias Preisinger, and Philipp Rohmer]
09. The Origin Of Primal Expression [deluxe CD bonus]
10. Melos [deluxe vinyl bonus]

Staff review by
Dream Taster
Rating:
8.7
If you are unfamiliar with Obscura, the German combo plays an unfettered brand of progressive technical death metal similar in style to bands like Cynic, Gorod and Necrophagist. With three key members gone since their last opus Omnivium?Christian Münzner [guitars], Hannes Grossmann [drums] and Jeroen Paul Thesseling [bass] all left after 2011?the band had to be rebuilt.

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published 05.03.2016 | Comments (5)

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23.03.2016 - 13:39
!J.O.O.E.!
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Written by koob on 12.03.2016 at 16:21

Meh. Like someone said about Alkaloid, only style, no substance and the most boring production one could ever imagine.

Sounds like something I would say. From what I've heard of this that's definitely true.
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04.06.2016 - 23:03
Rating: 7
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Huge dissapointment... i expected much more from those guys.. an album without soul..
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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04.08.2016 - 23:09
Zap
Guest
Man, it took me about half a year to recover from how dull this album is.
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12.11.2016 - 22:51
3rdWorld
China was a neat
Sounds as good an album as Obscura can possibly make. Really significant bass guitar, clinical drumming but still put down by the boring songwriting. Or maybe I just grew out of this style I guess. Decent album but not for me.
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06.05.2022 - 13:24
Rating: 8
gavdann

I haven't listened to Obscura for a while because I haven't listened to much tech-death at all recently but I picked up a vinyl copy of this for a tenner recently and it's damned good. Weather and my mood seems to reflect the style of music I listen to and today this sounds perfect. Someone above complained that this album has no soul or that it's style over substance but I've not found that at all. It's hard not to compare it with early Cynic but the production is crisp and full, has a lovely bass tone and demands to be played loud!

I think I prefer Diluvium and I haven't listened the latest yet but this was definitely a worthy buy.
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08.09.2022 - 15:43
Rating: 7
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
A splendid record with another mighty fine production as always from this band, it's so crisp and refined, every note from every instrument is crystal clear, something I find best about Obscura. The bass lines are brilliant, the rhythm and tempo changes are done nicely, and as expected the drumming and solo's are great too.

Again I'm getting a similar vibe too Cynic, even more so from this album, mainly due to the synthetic vocal style. Overall it's not quite as memorable as Cosmogenesis or Omnivium but it's very impressive nonetheless
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