«
»
Cinemetal

“ANTICOSMIC OVERLOAD” VIDEO PROVES OBSCURA’S METTLE

 Tuesday, February 10th, 2009 at 9:45am by

I haven’t yet had a chance to fully digest Obscura’s Cosmogenesis, but based on my brief listen I 100% endorse Satan Rosenbloom’s rave 4.5 out of 5 horns review of the latest from these German tech-death masters. Just look at their new video for the song “Anticosmic Overload.” It’s completely about the shred-factor, showing off the chops about which Reb. Rosenbloom waxes ecstatic: “To follow the workout metaphor, Obscura are like one of those dudes with -5% body fat that can go top speed on the elliptical on level 20 for an hour straight, then do 1000 crunches in five minutes and bench press an elephant all without breaking a sweat.” No fancy CGI effects or shaky cameras here; it’s all “Yo, look at us play, motherfuckers!” with plenty of bass pedal and fretboard zooms, birds-eye drum cams and, best of all, uber-close shots of fleet-fingered 6-string fretless bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling.

Aspiring death metallers, prepare to feel impish.

-VN

Tags: ,
  • bbot

    Meh.

  • SourDeez

    These guys have always reminded me a bit of Death. Just a bit, but enough to make them that much more badass.

  • http://www.myspace.com/murderousperfection bloodjunkie

    Cool vid, but the music is very boring. Great skill and two of the members are ex-necrophagist I belive, but the music ain’t that great.

  • Chimp-O-Neg

    It’s alright, but it aint all that is it. And fretless basses? So what.

    Being able to give yourself a blowjob would be an amazing techincal feat, but ultimately – you are still sucking your own cock.

    What’s the big fucking deal here? Am I missing something?

  • http://www.hibernum.net hibernum

    Whoa hey, you need to put a warning up here: “Warning, solo at 3 minute mark may cause seizures”. Because I could see that causing seizures.

  • Nate

    Lately I’ve been all about tech-death, so this is quite entertaining.

    But stepping back, I don’t think these guys have enough lasting appeal. The song in that video is average in my opinion…

    Lastly, yes I do indeed love the fact that you can actually hear the bass and that the bass player is a virtuoso, but I think that fact may have made the review a bit overly positive.

    The singing made me think of Gojira’s Joe a little.

    Overall I think it’s a bit too hectic and scattered (yes, even for tech-death) to head bang to. The members of the band look slightly awkward while doing it. But I am certainly in awe of their skill. Note how when the drummer gets that close up at the end of the video he barely looks like he’s trying, let alone break a sweat.

  • PD

    As Nate said, I can easily see how these guys could not have lasting appeal. The whole reason bands thrive is because they put on a good live set. I saw Necrophagist once and left halfway through because I could have listened to an album and nothing would have sounded different. Sure, it’s awesome to see someone doing guitar/vocals…for maybe two songs. In the end, that just makes for a boring show. I’d go see a vocalist going wild onstage and interacting with the crowd over a vocalist/guitarist anyday.

    But yeah, this song is killer, I don’t see how anybody can argue with that.

  • Conduit

    Man what about the legion of bands with guitarist/bassists who always lay down the vo-kills? Including our godfather Evil Chuck, who was always great fun to see live.

    This is some awesome tech too, way better than the multitude of dudes doing the squiggly diddly deees and fucking shit this bass is raping me. This song is totally put together well, an actual song and not a meaningless shred-wankfest, great feeling in the drums, you don’t have to look like an animal to be putting all you have into it. Some people just have the stonewall playing face. And fucking yes yes fretless bass is the shit. I’m surprised more tech groups don’t use it. Vocals are pretty standard but who cares, this is tech death!

  • http://www.myspace.com/formulafictions Dr Tizzle

    I listened to the songs on their myspace and this is the weakest one (but still badass), but why didn’t they make a video to one of the other songs?

  • Malacoda

    I’m not sure why this got 4.5 stars. Sure, it’s technical, and there is lots of bass, but the thing is, it’s barely a death metal song. It’s not very heavy at all, and they take the Neuraxis-style high pitched main riffs to a new level of badness. The bassist is good, but putting more bass presence makes the guitars and vocals seem a lot worse. I do like that solo however. The whole thing just seems empty and… not metal. The drummer is lazy-looking and wearing a maroon sweater?

    Another gripe – The lead guitarist uses halo guitars? WTF?

  • matt*m*

    this band makes me want to quit….man i suck. these guys are phenomenal players but not really sure if the song is interesting enough. definitely some cool riffs goin on though

  • sevenstring

    Who makes the singers guitar? I’ve looked around the web but found nothing. just curious.

  • f.randall

    that is the best bass work i have ever seen in death metal. killer band!