OBSCURA - anniversary repress of technical progressive extreme metal quality of the best in the world - safety helmet recommended

OBSCURA - anniversary repress of technical progressive extreme metal quality of the best in the world - safety helmet recommended

October 17, 2013: Obscura > Omnivium > 2013, CD, Relapse Records (Repress) [original release year 2011]

On The Metal Archives the reviewer mason_voorhees on January 20th, 2016 writes: Technical Perfection - 100%. Obscura's 2011 release Omnivium is without a doubt one of the best releases from the band and truly showcases why this band, its members, and releases have become staples of the technical death metal world. Obscura is no stranger to technicality as they've showed with their past releases (especially on their 2009 release Cosmogenesis) but they really went for more than sheer technicality with Omnivium. Omnivium contains just as many beautiful acoustic sections as well as clean vocal sections as it does sweeps and blast beats. The clean vocals done by Steffen ran through a vocoder on such tracks as Prismal Dawn and Celestial Spheres give the listener a sense of euphoria and beauty while tracks such as Ocean Gateways and Vortex Omnivium still broadcast that sheer death metal brutality that brings in many listeners in the first place ... All the members and their musical abilities truly come together in Omnivium and form an over all perfect tone and feeling with it. Omnivium is easily one of the best albums within the technical death metal genre and will live on as such for years to come."

Relapse Records has the entire album on YouTube.

OBSCURA - 'Omnivium' (Full Album Stream)