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Obscura (Music)

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 Obscura is a German technical/progressive death metal band. Known for including some of the most celebrated musicians in tech and for having a sound that combines a little bit of everything into one cohesive whole, they have gone from being viewed as "Necrophagist 2.0" to being a respected act in their own right.Formed in Munich, Bavaria in 2002 by Steffen Kummerer (guitars, vocals), Martin Ketzer (bass, vocals), and Jonas Baumgartl (drums, cello), the band wasted no time in releasing the Illegimitation demo in 2003. Ketzer left the following year and was replaced by Andreas "Hank" Nusko; additionally, Ernst "Azmo" Wurdak and Jurgen Zintz were welcomed in as additional guitarists in order to make live shows easier to pull off. All of them only lasted for a year, however, and by 2005, they were all out; the former two had quit, while Zintz had tragically taken his own life. Markus Lempsch and Jonas Fischer wound up filling the guitar and bass void, and with that, the lineup that would release their first full-length was created. Retribution dropped in 2006, and with it came touring and yet another lineup change in 2007, when Lempsch, Fischer, and Baumgartl left. They were respectively replaced by Johannes Rennig, Jeroen Paul Thesseling, and Hannes Grossmann, but Renning did not last to the end of the year and quit as well. In 2008, Grossmann invited his former Necrophagist bandmate Christian Muenzner to fill Lempsch's spot, and the classic Obscura lineup was born. A promo was released later that year, and it was enough to result in a deal with Relapse Records. Cosmogenesis, their Relapse debut, was released in the beginning of 2009 to great reviews and surprisingly strong sales, and the band suddenly found themselves becoming a rising star in tech. After multiple tours and much fanfare, the band released their sophomore full-length, Omnivium, in 2011, but work-related conflicts resulted in Thesseling leaving prior to the album's release. Linus Klausenitzer quickly jumped in to fill the void, and things continued on as normal. 2012 brought an expanded rerelease of the Illegimitation demo that additionally included preproduction tracks from 2006 and several unreleased covers from the Omnivium recording sessions. Since then, the band has mostly stuck to touring; a new album is indeed on the way at some point, but the respective solo projects of Muenzner and Grossmann have slowed its progress. Incidentally, those two have left the band as of July 2014, citing an inability to meet touring demands (Muenzner) and incompatibilities in artistic vision (Grossmann). After a series of auditions, they welcomed in Tom "Fountainhead" Geldschlaeger and Sebastian Lanser on guitar and drums, respectively. Akroasis, the first album with the new lineup, will drop in February of 2016. Geldschlaeger has already left for undisclosed reasons, but he was part of the recording lineup; Rafael Trujillo has already been announced as his replacement.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })At some point in 2020, Trujillo, Klausenitzer, and Lanser departed en masse and formed Obsidious. Kummerer has stated that he has a new lineup that will be announced soon (one of the new members was quickly confirmed to be a returning Jeroen Paul Thesseling, while David Diepold was revealed a few weeks later and the return of Christian Muenzner completed the lineup), and the band will enter the studio to record their fifth full-length.
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 Badass Bookworm: All the members of the classic lineup (as well as Klausenitzer) are very well-versed in theory, while Kummerer is additionally very well-read in philosophy.
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 Beyond the Impossible: Morean's guest solo on "Velocity" was never really intended to be playable; some of it was indeed pulled off completely legitimately, but some of it was also either strung together from brief phrases or otherwise heavily processed. Basically, he was running on Rule of Cool, as he is also a classical composer and thus doesn't always concern himself with making something humanly playable so long as it sounds interesting. Then Danny Tunker (who is also Obscura's guitar tech) pulled it off in one shot ON A SIGHT-READ. Morean even admitted to being completely awestruck by it.
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