★★★★★
Sound: The best way I could describe Obscura would be tech death metal with elements of nintendo music. Cosmogenesis is a great album unlike anything I've ever heard. These guys were not afraid to push the envelope to bring us something new and exciting that has never been done before. You get exactly what is expected out of Hannes Grossmann (former drummer of Necrophagist) with his unpredictable style of blast beats and off beat timing...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
Metal music, along with herpes outbreaks and the frequency/amplitude of my cat's puking habits, is one of life's many a unpredictable, capricious beasts. After taking a listen to Obscura's Omnivium one fine afternoon, I allowed myself a moment to contemplate just how far death metal has expanded since the days of yore. While this time of retrospect didn't last as long as I would have liked, there still existed a nagging, tumor-esque feeling in the back of my skull...
- www.syffal.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
Although the foundation for technical death metal has always consisted of complex riffs, complex drum patterns, complex basslines, complex song structures, complex everything, it's easy for a supremely skilled band to become so wrapped up in showing off how much technical skill they possess that they lose track of something so ironically simple: the notion of crafting a cohesive, coherent song...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-04-18
★★★★★
Anyone else out there getting Obscura and Origin mixed up? The cover art, those album names, the technical death metal, but Yanks Origin never incorporate clean vocals into seven-plus-minute tunes like Dutch dudes Obscura do here ? on the first song! "Vortex Omnivium" follows up that ambitious, ass-kicking opener with crazy technical guitar riffs and awesome blast beats that just come out of nowhere, overtop a riff that changes for no one and no beat...
- www.exclaim.ca
2011-04-04
★★★★★
Sound: Wow, what a sound. Obscura are an ironically prominent technical/progressive death metal band that are special for good reason... because they're actually good. Although they are almost always compared to Necrophagist and its not hard to see why, there are a myriad of differences that set them apart. One immediately obvious trait is that Obscura are actually melodic...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2011-03-29
★★★★★
Formed by guitarist and vocalist Steffen Kummerer, the instrumentally outstanding, super-technical German-based four piece Obscura arrived on death metal's doorstep in 2002, and after a debut album that largely went unnoticed and an almost full band line-up change (obviously minus Kummerer), the Deutschland quartet really started making waves with their superb sophomore record "Cosmogenesis"...
- www.smnnews.com
2011-03-15
★★★★★
"'Omnivium' shows the members of Obscura continuing to hone their craft, and is easily one of the best albums that the technical death metal sub-genre has to offer." With the release of the space themed "Omnivium," German act Obscura has launched itself to the top of the technical death metal empire. From the absurdly complex and fast guitar work that the genre is known for, to more progressive and laid back segments, "Omnivium" has it all and then some...
- www.metalunderground.com
2011-03-14
★★★★★
"The compassion the band plays with is undeniable and furthers them into the realm of wanting to bring about truly thoughtful music." A nicely varied style is brought to the table with "Cosmogenesis" and Obscura is certainly able to bring together a gelling of sounds that strikes a chord within the listener...
- www.metalunderground.com
2010-12-21
★★★★★
Ranking alongside such greats of confrontational electronics as Throbbing Gristle and (early) Cabaret Voltaire, as well as latterday contenders Fuxa and Add N To (X), Obscura's maverick stance is a collision of random & sporadic noise sewn into a complex web of outer-space melody, employing a multitude of diverse influences in a soundclash of ideas bound by the characteristic sound chatter unique to south London's C-PIJ towers studio...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2009-06-08
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