OBSCURA — Akróasis (review)

OBSCURA — Akróasis album cover Album · 2016 · Technical Death Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
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Genre: prog/tech death metal

The champions of progressive death metal are back with another onslaught of mind-boggling death metal. To be released in a couple of days, "Akroasis" - like its predecessors - showcases the incredible musicianship that is contained within the entity that is Obscura.

From beginning to end, the listener is bombarded with insane blastbeats and exciting fretless bass figures. Accompanying these are virtuous guitar solos and guitar riffs that range from the melodic over the brutal to the dissonant. Every composition on the album is complex and contains several changes in time and tempo. This is progressive death metal indeed.

If this sounds like a description that could apply to any Obscura album, well then it is because there are no changes in musical direction on this release. That is not a bad thing. With music such as that created by Obscura, each song in itself is full of so many twists and turns that it is not necessary for the band to reinvent their sound in order to keep the listener interested.

Fans of Obscura should of course invest in this album as should any person who claims to be a fan of progressive and/or technical death metal.
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