Unfortunately it seems that a lot of technical death metal bands rather like to bask in their skills and technical details instead of convincing with a uncluttered release. As usual for dramatic times there is of course some light at the end of the tunnel, namely: Obscura and their killer release ‘Cosmogenesis’.

Obscura — featuring ex-members of Necrophagist and Pestilence — wrote an album that is filled with melodic-orientated guitar work, avantgarde bass line, fantastic and varied drumming and some vocoder that remembers of Cynic for sure, but instead of Cynic or Necrophagist they are notably more alterable and so ‘Cosmogenesis’ get’s never predictable or even boring.

I know 2009 is still young, but I’m pretty sure that ‘Cosmogensis’ will be hard to beat by other bands of the same genre.

By the way: thanks to the unwesen for pointing my interest to them.