Comments on: OBSCURA’S COSMOGENESIS: DEUTSCHLAND, DEUTSCHLAND, ÜBER TECHNICAL

By: groverXIII

groverXIII — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:11:18 +0000

I’m listening to this now, and I’m quite impressed.

By: Miroslav

Miroslav — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:45:19 +0000

Wow, didn’t know that, thanks. I’m gonna check that album see if I’m any good at bass like Vitous :)

Till now only famous person with first name like mine i know is one folk singer from ex-Yugoslavia.

By: Satan Rosenbloom

Satan Rosenbloom — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:38:08 +0000

Oooh, I will have to check out Trio of Doom…love me my early-70s Mahavishnu Orchestra and Lifetime records. That sounds delish. Thanks for the tip, Miroslav. Coincidentally you share a first name with one of the great upright jazz bassists of the 70s, Miroslav Vitous? You should be proud. He’s on the early Chick Corea disc Now He Sings Now He Sobs, one of my favorite piano trio records ever.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:25:28 +0000

I’ve been getting into a lot of tech-death lately and this is another excellent addition.

Thanks again for alerting me of a sweet band previously unbeknownst to me!!

(I like Necrophagist and hence like these guys (and while I can’t say the bass is “godly” yet, mostly cuz I haven’t listened enought, I am indeed glad to be able to hear it.))

By: Miroslav

Miroslav — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:14:03 +0000

Gotcha! :)

And yes, Jaco Pastorius is GOD!

Off topic: Ever heard Trio Of Doom? His collaboration with John McLaughlin (Mahavishnu Orchestra) and Tony Williams? :)

By: Etan Rosenbloom

Etan Rosenbloom — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:53:37 +0000

Miroslav, I was only mentioning bassists that are currently turning heads. That Quo Vadis album was from 2004, and Focus is from 10 years earlier. DiGiorgio is godly, and a lot of what Thesseling is up to definitely references his work with Sadus and Death. And they both owe a lot to Jaco Pastorius, who never played metal.

By: Miroslav

Miroslav — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:00:55 +0000

Great review, great album, there is only one part I didn’t agree with:

“Save for Intronaut’s Joe Lester, nobody is redefining the role of the bassist in death metal quite this brazenly.”

Sorry dude, but Steve DiGiorgio on Quo Vadis’s Defiant Imagination (also on Death’s Human and Individual) is doing some almighty god work on bass there.

And I won’t mention Sean Malone on Focus cause you probably know that, but i guess you didn’t mention because Focus is not 100% Death metal.

By: groverXIII

groverXIII — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 20:48:24 +0000

I’ll have to check this out.

By: Satan Rosenbloom

Satan Rosenbloom — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:31:58 +0000

I like these guys a lot more than Necrophagist. More variety in the sound, far less clinical sounding. And that bassist…my god. This record sent me back to my copy of Pestilence’s Spheres, their only record that JP Thesseling is on…he was amazing back then but gets the showcase he deserves here.

By: ah

ah — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:08:52 +0000

sounds a lot like necrophagist. that is also because 2 ex-members are in it. but still fuck’n bad ass

By: PD

PD — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:08:41 +0000

@ Elpants: heh, these guys just might blow Neuraxis and The Faceless out of the water. But the Faceless have managed to get that “scene” following, so I might just be talking out of my rear.

By: Elpants

Elpants — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:56:06 +0000

I was glad to hear on this album that when I go to the Cannibal Corpse/The Faceless, the opening band wont suck.

By: Jesse Flip

Jesse Flip — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:44:00 +0000

Loved this album. Wild stuff.

By: xBEARFIGHTx

xBEARFIGHTx — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:31:32 +0000

Yeah, this album was amazing. Definitely buying it! But jesus these guys shred all day. Like their hands must be running sweep patterns 24/7