Obscura

An extremely specialized death metal music group from Munich, Germany, Obscura were founded in 2002 by vocalist/guitarist Steffen Kummerer, who purportedly took the name from a 1998 album by Canada’s important Gorguts — one of is own inspirational touchstones, along with Cynic, Pestilence, Morbid Angel, while others. Kummerer spent the ensuing years composing the tunes that could comprise Obscura’s 2006 debut recording, Retribution, bypassing the original extreme metallic procedure for distributing demos and carrying out in clubs on the way. Also his supporting ensemble during the recording classes — guitarist Markus Lempsch, bassist Jonas Fischer, and drummer Jonas Baumgartl — had been merely hired weapons who would become consequently dispensed with following its self-employed release to common rave evaluations — therefore raving, actually, that Kummerer and his family pet task quickly became the items of a metallic label bidding battle before signing using the extremely respected Relapse Information for the discharge from the Obscura’s second recording, Cosmogenesis. This as well fulfilled with overwhelmingly positive response inside the metallic community, and benefited from a fresh lineup of virtuosos including guitarist Christian Münzner and drummer Hannes Grossman, previously of well known German techno-deathsters Necrophagist, plus famous Pestilence bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling. Two even more albums adopted in 2011 (Omnivium) and 2012 (Illegimitation) before a lot more lineup adjustments transfromed the band’s audio. Bassist Linus Klausenitzer changed Thesseling in past due 2011, drummer Sebastian Lanser became a member of for any 2014 tour, and youthful jazz guitarist Rafael Trujillo was recruited in 2015. The band’s 1st recorded day with this roster was Akróasis in early 2016.