Track Listing

1. Anticosmic Overload
2. Choir Of Spirits
3. Universe Momentum
4. Incarnated
5. Orbital Elements
6. Desolate Spheres
7. Infinite Rotation
8. Noosphere
9. Cosmogenesis
10. Centric Flow

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43688 in Music
• Released on: 2009-02-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Album Description
Prepare to be amazed by technical metal masters OBSCURA and their astonishing Relapse Records debut Cosmogenesis. Cosmogenesis is a front-to-back stroke of brilliance that seamlessly fuses modern metals extremity, the upper levels of technical virtuosity, and the symphonic grace of progressive music into a flawless album experience. Boasting a line-up featuring ex-members of such legendary bands as PESTILENCE and NECROPHAGIST, the band more than justifies their impressive pedigree with what will be one of 2009's best metal albums and a timeless classic in the making.

From the Artist
One of 2009's best metal albums and a timeless classic in the making!

Customer Reviews

Fabulous Album!
I recommend this album. The songs are melodic, I can actually hear chord progressions, which is not the norm for death. Stellar performances by all musicians. I can actually hear the bass playing notes, on a fretless even.

The vocals have a bit of Gorguts style to them, which is a good thing.

100 percent quality brutal melodic death metal. Does brutal MELODIC death metal make sense? Obscura does.

buy this!
This album rocks. the guitar work is impressive and the fretless bass is a great addition. this band knows how to write technical death metal tunes without ever boring the listener. This bands creativity, songwriting, and skill, reminds me a lot Death. I highly recommend this album to anyone into metal and not just people into technical death metal.

Intense & dynamic....outstanding!
This is definitely one of the best new releases I've come across in a good, long time. Obscura seemlessly melds technical death metal with more of a progressive element on this incredible album. There are a lot of harmonized guitar lines, blast beats, and death growls, but there also slower tempo moments that display a wider range of musicality and dynamism. There are some clean vocals, too, but they are definitely not operatic like Hammerfall or Blind Guardian. I think, actually, the vocalist is probably not the best singer, so the clean interludes don't offer anything mind-blowing in a melodic sense. Nonetheless, the clean vocals fit nicely into the mix.

By the far the most impressive element of this band and this album is the bassist. All too often the bass is but an afterthought in extreme music, melding inconspicuously into the background. Obscura, however, bring the bass right back to the main stage, a la Iron Maiden and Sadus. The bassist plays a 6-string fretless bass, and it is definitely an integral piece of Obscura's sound. The bass lines, fills, and (yes!) solos add so much to their music, and I think set them apart from a lot of mediocre bands.

This album is a must-listen for anyone who appreciates technical death metal, particurly the European bands, like Necrophagist and Pestilence. But I would also challenge those of you just discovering heavier music to check it out, too. Fans of God Forbid, Lamb of God, In Flames, Arch Enemy, and the like should be able to find something you'll like here.