A bit later it was a huge dream to play in Japan and North America –we made this happen as well.
Years ago my dream was a real tour – and we achieved that. Regarding Obscura, we kept our dreams realistic and built up the band from scratch. Just do what you like, set a goal and move forward. That is a nice quote! It is applicable to any DIY-band on the planet. Do you agree? What is your dream regarding Obscura? Ever dreamt of, for instance, headlining Wacken Open Air? Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”. Goethe was quoted saying “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. This gives me more freedom to write about topics I’m interested in. Most of our fans don’t care about lyrics and rather look into the musicianship…that is absolutely okay to me. I’d rather write something with value instead of filling some rhythm patterns with text. Writing lyrics for an album isn’t easy – most of the topics have been covered, others are not my cup of tea. Somehow I found links in between, questions related to all three entities but also a personal preference to Schelling and Goethe. This started back in 2004 when I started reading more and more regarding the mentioned topics. During the last records we were able to point out all three entities in different contexts. Working with ideas within a macro- and meta basis seems more interesting to me and I combine the mentioned philosophers with religious thoughts and an astrophysical element. Care to explain?Ī few years ago I read Nietzsche as well and couldn’t find too many interesting parts to be honest. Goethe and Schelling seem rather odd sources of inspiration. The often misantrophic works of Friedrich Nietzsche have inspired many bands in the Metal genre. Philosophy tends to be a significant inspiration for Obscura’s lyrics. Anyway, I hope it won’t take another five years to release a new album. Within the next two years we will mainly tour around the globe and write new music. The last song on Akroasis stands as a spoiler for the upcoming record – more is coming very soon! First of all, we are back on the road presenting our new record on stage, supporting Death DTA in March and April, playing a European festival tour and coming back to Asia afterwards.
We already shared ideas for our fifth album in order to finish the cycle soon. We released that album after a five year break between our debut Retribution and the first album for Relapse Records. We thought the same when releasing Cosmogenesis in 2009. Do you have a concept in mind for future albums or is it too soon? I hope we don’t have to wait five years for the release of a fifth album. During the last records we found our own niche, our own sound and since then I rather play our own music instead of covers. This is where we come from, these bands are our roots. We recorded three covers for a compilation of our first demo to give our early influences homage: Death, Cynic and Atheist. No! Leaving covers out of our new record was a conscious move. I love Atheist, but this artwork hasn’t had impact on our new record. The artwork follows the path we began back in 2009. Orion Landau - long term Obscura artist - came up with an idea based on our previous album concepts.
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Coincidence or not?Ī full coincidence if so! To be honest, I cannot see any similarities between both artworks.
The artwork for Akroasis reminds me of the Atheist-album ‘Unquestionable Presence’ (1991). The album sounds very unique, just give it a listen. We managed a certain laid back feeling among a technical- and progressive death metal record. The songs are pretty fluent but varied so to say. What can we expect from Akroasis?Īkroasis combines our very own sound with a few new elements, a different groove, more complex rhythm patterns and the best production we came up with so far. Continue reading for a look inside the mind of Herr Kummerer.įebruary marks the release of Obscura’s fourth studio album. Apart from the obvious questions, themes such as philosophy and appreciation of Chuck Schuldiner were not avoided. Your Snoozecontrol-reporter had the privilege of conducting an interview with founding member, vocalist and guitarist Steffen Kummerer. Akroasis saw the light of day earlier this month. Pieter-Jan Vanden Broeck 11 februari 2016Īchtung! German technical death metal outfit Obscura have just released their fourth album.
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