Tag: Obscura

NEWS: Obscura announce American tour live album for October!

As the fifth anniversary of 2018’s “Diluvium” arrives for German Technical Progressive Death Metal masters Obscura, the band have announced a live album “A Celebration I – Live in North America” and released live video for “The Anticosmic Overload” to offer a flavour of what it encompasses. It will see the cold light of day

NEWS: Decapitated announce HUGE UK and Ireland tour!

November and December will find Obscura, Inferi and The Materia joining forces to support Polish Death Metal pioneers Decapitated as they play 2002’s “Nihility” in full on tour across the United Kingdom and Ireland. It will find them playing pretty much everywhere in the kind of old school intimate tour trek that seems to be

Documentary: Linus Klausenitzer and Ibanez create something unique!

Ahead of the release of solo album and guest filled endeavour “Tulpa“, former Obscura six string fretless bass guitarist Linus Klausenitzer has shared a featurette in which he talks about going on a journey with Ibanez. The end result is the first bass with a steel fretboard, which he also demonstrates while the record itself

NEWS: Linus Klausenitzer offers a soul to sell?

Following the arrival of “King Of Hearts“, renowned former Obscura six string fretless bassist Linus Klausenitzer has plucked “Our Souls Set Sail” from his forthcoming, debut solo album, “Tulpa” to tickle your cerebral cortex. The record is out on 6th October via AOP Records and features a myriad of incredible guests and while he’s known for

NEWS: Former Obscura bassist Linus Klausenitzer returns with “Tulpa”!

Inspired by the German book “Die Sphinx” (1873) from Emil Besetzny, former Obscura bassist Linus Klausenitzer has announced a solo record built around his signature 6-string fretless bass sound featuring a myriad of guests. Titled “Tulpa” it is said to take listeners on a musical odyssey through time, exploring the story of an Austrian lord’s

Review: “The Absence” by itSELF

The roots of itSELF go back as far as 2005 when Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Falon, now know for his work in both Sinister and Belphegor met drummer Estevan Furlan, their ambitions in Death Metal for the project huge. However things ground to a halt in 2013 with life getting in the way of perpetual forward motion

Playthrough: “The Philosopher” from Dååth!

A month after the band played tribute to the legacy of Chuck Shuldiner Dååth guitarist Eyal Levi plays through a cover of “The Philosopher” by Death showing off the Neural DSP Quad Cortex. The studio rendition of the cut sees them joined by a pair of guests laying down guitar solos, the first of those is

Documentary: “A Valediction” World Tour #3 with Obscura!

German Progressive Technical Death Metal masters Obscura continue to celebrate their sixth album “A Valediction”, which was released by Nuclear Blast in November 2021 with a third installment of their touring documentary featurettes. This one sees them roll their eighteen wheeler into Canada following trips to Mexico and North American. Surely the tour cycle will

NEWS: itSELF discuss Chernobyl with “Voices Of The Unheard”!

itSELF, a supergroup featuring members and former members of Sinister, Belphegor, The Monolith Deathcult, Obsidious, Obscura and Psycroptic are joined by Helle Bogdanova of Ignea fame for “Voices Of The Unheard“, a second single from their upcoming new album “The Absence“. A song that runs deep on themes of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, it was

NEWS: Dååth revise their philosophy?

Paying tribute to the legacy of Chuck Shuldiner and Death the reformed Dååth have shared a cover of “The Philosopher” which sees them joined by not one but two guests laying down guitar solos. The first of those is Rafael Trujillo (ex-Obscura, Obsidious) while the second is Dan Sugarman (Ice Nine Kills, As Blood Runs