Obscura
Obscura is a German technical death metal band founded in Landshut in 2002 by guitarist and vocalist Steffen Kummerer, drawing on the progressive death metal lineage of Cynic, Atheist, and Death. Their second album Cosmogenesis (2009) on Relapse Records broke the band internationally, debuting on Billboard charts and earning placement on numerous lists of essential death metal records. The band has continued releasing critically recognized albums including Omnivium (2011) and Akróasis (2016), maintaining a position at the forefront of the technical death metal genre.
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Obscura Shows (3)
Obscura Discography
10 tracks
- 1 The Anticosmic Overload 4:16
- 2 Choir of Spirits 5:31
- 3 Universe Momentum 4:33
- 4 Incarnated 4:53
- 5 Orbital Elements 5:21
- 6 Desolate Spheres 4:01
- 7 Infinite Rotation 4:48
- 8 Noospheres 5:04
- 9 Cosmogenesis 4:14
- 10 Centric Flow 7:25
13 tracks
- 1 Humankind 2:47
- 2 Nothing 4:56
- 3 Unhinged 2:16
- 4 None Shall Be Spared 5:58
- 5 Alone 3:44
- 6 Hymn to a Nocturnal Visitor 6:33
- 7 Hate Anthem 2:29
- 8 Exit Life 3:48
- 9 Sentiment 6:11
- 10 Sweet Silence 3:15
- 11 Lack of Comprehension (Death Cover) 3:48
- 12 Synthetically Revived (Suffocation Cover) 4:04
- 13 God of Emptiness (Morbid Angel Cover) 6:01
9 tracks
- 1 Septuagint 7:17
- 2 Vortex Omnivium 4:13
- 3 Ocean Gateways 5:55
- 4 Euclidean Elements 4:50
- 5 Prismal Dawn 6:19
- 6 Celestial Spheres 5:27
- 7 Velocity 6:03
- 8 A Transcendental Serenade 6:13
- 9 Aevum 7:50
10 tracks
- 1 And All Will Come to an End 2:58
- 2 Crucified 4:23
- 3 Fear 4:36
- 4 Immanent Desaster 6:03
- 5 Incarnated 5:20
- 6 Open the Gates 2:41
- 7 Headworm 4:46
- 8 Flesh and the Power It Holds 8:07
- 9 Piece of Time 4:28
- 10 How Could I 4:50
8 tracks
- 1 Sermon of the Seven Suns 7:12
- 2 The Monist 4:56
- 3 Akróasis 4:23
- 4 Ten Sepiroth 5:08
- 5 Ode to the Sun 5:04
- 6 Fractal Dimension 6:14
- 7 Perpetual Infinity 5:52
- 8 Weltseele 15:15
11 tracks
- 1 Clandestine Stars 3:38
- 2 Emergent Evolution 4:52
- 3 Diluvium 5:02
- 4 Mortification of the Vulgar Sun 6:09
- 5 Ethereal Skies 5:18
- 6 Convergence 4:04
- 7 Ekpyrosis 5:23
- 8 The Seventh Aeon 5:17
- 9 The Conjuration 5:33
- 10 An Epilogue to Infinity 6:16
- 11 A Last Farewell (Bonus Track) 2:26
1 track
- 1 Emergent Evolution 4:52
1 track
- 1 Diluvium 5:02
11 tracks
- 1 Forsaken 7:16
- 2 Solaris 3:41
- 3 A Valediction 3:27
- 4 When Stars Collide 5:08
- 5 In Unity 4:48
- 6 Devoured Usurper 5:30
- 7 The Beyond 3:49
- 8 Orbital Elements II 4:01
- 9 The Neuromancer 4:41
- 10 In Adversity 4:09
- 11 Heritage 5:02
10 tracks
- 1 Forsaken - Live 7:47
- 2 Emergent Evolution - Live 4:52
- 3 Ode To The Sun - Live 6:11
- 4 The Anticosmic Overload - Live 4:24
- 5 Septuagint - Live 7:33
- 6 A Valediction - Live 3:35
- 7 Ocean Gateways - Live 5:45
- 8 Akroasis - Live 4:27
- 9 Orbital Elements II - Live 4:24
- 10 Incarnated - Live 5:38
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