OBSCURA – Set To Record New Album

Progressive death metal band, OBSCURA, have booked studio time to record their sixth full-length album.

Tracking will take with producer Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Architects) at Studio Fredman, located in Gothenburg, Sweden and the outing will arrive in 2021 via Nuclear Blast Records.

“With our recent album, we closed a ten-year long-lasting chapter of the band,” says frontman Steffen Kummerer. “With our new album, we work with well-known producer Fredrik Nordström at Studio Fredman, Sweden. Fredrik’s productions are classy, timeless, and tasteful alike.”

“Founded in 2002 by guitarist/vocalist Steffen Kummerer, German progressive death metal band OBSCURA​ caused a stir when they – out of nowhere – toured as support for the legendary Suffocation on the band’s European tour in 2006 and independently released their debut album Retribution that same year. From its very beginnings, the band (named after Gorguts’ inimitable 1993 full-length) demonstrated an uncanny ability for blending different forms of technical, cerebral metal into a coherent synthesis of death, thrash and black metal merged with progressive elements. In 2009, after being acquired by Relapse Records, the band released Cosmogenesis, a marvel of technical and progressive metal that firmly established OBSCURA​ as one of modern extreme metal’s leading lights. Not one to bend to convention, OBSCURA​ distinguished themselves and their unique brand of music via the tasteful use of vocal effects, fretless bass, philosophical underpinnings, and other elements rarely touched on in extreme metal.”