12 years later and still Obscura’s Magnum Opus. Flawless album

Ode to the life... the cells... the evolution of everything...

1. Septuagint 0:00 2. Vortex Omnivium 7:17 3. Ocean Gateways 11:31 4. Euclidean Elements 17:27 5. Prismal Dawn 22:17 6. Celestial Spheres 28:37 7. Velocity 34:05 8. A Transcendental Serenade 40:09 9. Aevum 46:22

One of the best technical Death Metal Albums of all Time!

The continuation of The sound of perseverance

Ocean Gateways sounded like a kickass villain theme.

I remember I bought this album because I thought the album art was cool. Now it’s one of my favorite albums of all time. How cool is that?

the solo in vortex omnivium is absolutely jaw dropping

No words of how amazing this record can be... Obscura guys has set a SUBLIME standard for technical death metal. Our huge congrats to your work and amazing musicianship, Cheers.

This is just such a beautifull work.. the brutality, complexity of music and philosophical meaning hided in those amazing lyrics.. I'm trully in love with this album. That's a kind of music that i would like to create someday. True amazing technical/progressive death, with maybe a little pinch of clean vocals.. And respect to the bass.. ooh my God. Every instrument is just clearly hearable, and nobody is aprecciated less than the other musician. Perfect album guys!!

In my opinion this is what you get if you mix death and cynic this is the first time I heard this. Shots awesome

I'm gonna see them in 2 weeks. I listened to all their discography, and this is their best album, IMO.

I have just listened to this album for the first time and i am mindblown. This is the first time i woulg give a album 10/10 on the 1st listen. The atmosphere is unreal and musicianship insane. Perfect blend of technicality melody and brutality, words cannot describe how good this is. I gotta check out theier other stuff

A genuine master piece

Masterpiece

🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘you forget how good this still is, man they'll be enjoying this in 500 years, "classical music" 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

Everyone needs to hear this in their lifetime at some point

thank you for this album. cheeses crust what an amazing listen

Perfect.

This shot my fucking balls into space ! Amazing.

One of the greatest albums of all time.

Only 2949 views? Very underrated good shit!, shame on people really..

41:35 Alison hell

great album, great riffs

great from start to end

Still my favourite even after 5 years

41:28 Beautiful, like Orbital elements

Velosity solo is incredeble!!! Great album

Thanks very much

Fantástico Masterpiece 😈👌

Great stuff. I can't decide which Obscura album to purchase.... They are all unparalleled.

Them Dissection harmonies, even the vocals reminded me Nodveidt \m/

Came for the metroid, stayed for the metal.

Definitely a top10 album of the past decade

Pretty fucking awesome I just love everything about it.

very,very,good.......bravo.

High tech metal!

Listened...love it...on my way to the shop to buy the real deal (this and the other Obscura cds, I mean). Over and out!

Best album of 2011

3. Ocean Gateways I consider our Earth as a part of the lowest area We live as we were at the bottom of the sea Where nothing is pure and undespoiled Where everything is eaten and eroded Where the grips of externality is unable freely To emerge beyond a certain space of this one Where nothing is pure and undespoiled Where everything is wet and salt Where earth and spirit unite An opposition to the visible A call of the purified souls Emerges beyond, breaks free Deliverance - an acroamatic halo Deprivation - in particular obedience Eclipsed - shackled and torn apart Emptiness - devoid of heart and soul

5. Prismal Dawn Behind those halls yonder, above the caliginoous enigma Where soul and spirit unite, there lies buried everything I have Where we left the quiet sanctuary that united us on this side To be separated for aeons, enchained in eternity I lost you when I am chased away yet again Yet your feeble remnants adores them I am torn away even from the area of ground that covers you Which was the very last thing I had of you I lost you when I am chased away yet again Yet your mortal remains rest peacefully and purely Whatever part of this earth will retain them Passing the world beyond, I'll be with you This is our heart, our mind, our conscience Our soul no longer belongs to us Returning home to eternal freedom Begin a new course, ennoble our essence In the latter we find one law and one purpose A purpose that can not be from this world Beyond abyss through which blackness shines in Behind those halls, where soul and spirit unite There lies buried everything I have in the Prismal Dawn

9. Aevum Where profound souls shy away from self fulfillment We stroll in silence through this universe Where abysmal pansophy wallows in deepness To enjoy the bliss of a fractional existence The holiest necessity of inner being is not a law for nature In nature even divine necessity takes on the bleach animosity To keep our inner being free of this contradiction With the irresistible force fore of a terrible necessity once present Those who are ashamed to start from the earth To climb up from the creature mankind To draw those thoughts that are beyond Earth, fire, water, and air Void Dimension - as man stands here on earth Void Dimension - as flash of eternity As man stands here on earth in this life As flash of eternity that enlighten this gloominess Portraying this progeny of their soul as enigma Devoured by its own will, unbounded, inevitable Wherever one thing reaches into the other Neither of the others can leave Each requires the other

I think this is the best second wave of techdeath album ever, even better than Epitaph and Onset of Putrefaction, I've never thought I'd say this but it's true, Necrophagist has been a big inspiration for me and a bigger influence than Obscura but this album it's really the absolute peak, maybe it's the more melodic approach to it or the progressive not only harmonic minor kind of soloing that makes it so great, also the clean parts are memorable and unique, I even think it's better than the classic of melodeath Slaughter Of The Soul and other great second wave techdeath albums like The Aura.

Technical perfection!👌🔥

Ocean Gateways reminds me of MA´s god of the emtiness (Obscura actually plays it on their first album retribution) in a good way, because at the same time i hear the unique siyle of Obscura. The part starting at 9.50 for example is incredible. Since two years i try to understand and the only thing i got is that the first half of it is counted 16 and 15, a 31 so to speak (if i got it right). That part is high tech metal! Cheers from Sinzig between Bonn and Koblenz

Jeroen Paul Thesseling is back on Obscura!

รู้จักobscura อัลบำนี้แหละ🎉

6. Celestial Spheres The inclination will become naught When a justifiable longing is accorded to it Within the magnitude of the object For the gain of an everlasting truth Amalgamation will be scorned by both When there is a whisper of faith Within the halls of eternity For a wish of silence in the black eclipse Light and vision, day and night, will break free A night like day and a day like night embrace us all Our wishes find their final resting place in us A moonlit night touches our inner being ...and makes a shudder run through our flesh A night like day and a day like night embrace us all Our wishes find their final place When our mind disappears into a sudden Shuddering movement and leaves behind in his soul A painful longing for its survival Light and vision, day and night, will break free

7. Velocity This is the end, where everything finishes What will be revealed in silence This is the end, where each secret disappears Fragrance of the dead, redemption of the weak Those who arise despite ourselves Where the left hand path begins A fragment is pushing through, enforces my memory My mind has been swaying for some time Your sign, suggesting a pale remembrance Where everything finally disappears This is the end, where everything finishes What will be revealed in silence This is the end, where each secret disappears Fragrance of the dead, redemption of the weak Between the worlds, where the one merge with the other through them Where the growth of an external world amalgamate into a spirit truth Where a transition occurs within death and salvation You'll see the whole, the whole of the undivided one At a stage where you'll lead delightful The one that is fallen awaits frightful

Masterpiece!

Banger

GEEZUS What an Album !!!!

alto discazooooooo

Nunca escuché nada igual a esta banda. ¿De donde sacaran la inspiración para hacer las letras?. Where they get the inspiration for the Lyrics? This band is amazing, never feel this with other bands.

37:20- wow

Septuagint>everything

HOLY

Math metal? Tech death? I call it Alien Metal and I love it 👍

41:46 Alison Hell?

Absolutely so fuckin cool!

44:05 You're welcome

the intro reminds me to "everlost" from In Flames.

38:24 ... waaat

Ocean Gateways are very similar to a Morbid Angel's "Where the Slime Live", in my opinion

THIS IS THE FUCKING STUFF!!!!!

Why don't we have more clear vocals like the ones on Celestial Spheres?

Wow. Adding jazz elements. Hate to say I just discovered them. Second only to Spawn of Possession.

The last song, reminds me one of Blind Guardian songs

Obra Maestra

As a whole this album is epic, romantic, tragic and ends in heaven but in valhalla or rather artistic type of heaven

nice

8. A Transcendental Serenade In deepest depths, at the dark side of a burning star. By the dully shining black sun - the dance of the dead.

2011 holy fuck that's a long time ago, wow

Prismal Dawn is the best song because of the bass player.

amazing tech death metal

wow this songwriter pretty amazing like some wise priest

41:07 FUCK YES DUDE, THIS RIFF 🥵

agreed

31:31 *_______*

They are like the modern Death. Not popularizing death metal but they have a VERY similar style and soumd

This video gets a dislike for putting a Burger King ad in the middle of the Velocity guitar solo but this album rules.

Velocity solo inspired by allan Holdsworth and alen pasqua san Michelle

😵 Alieni

what is technical death metal??

Padat bergizi

The fuck is the intro of the track Septuagint ? Some classical influences ? I've heard yet but can't figure out ?

the album art looks like a space semen fertilizing a space egg lol fuckin amazing album.

37:18 You're welcome

Такое себе, но интро к первой песне красивое

🔟🔝💯💫🎼♥️💥🔝🔟

I hear Cynic and Dark Tranquility, but nevertheless this is pumping.

𝕬𝖇𝖘𝖔𝖑𝖚𝖙𝖊 𝕸𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖗𝖕𝖎𝖊𝖈𝖊

raw logs n bacon hogs

I waited the entire song to hear Phil labonte I mean no hate but that was a cheap trick guys I realize it said special appearance but musically that means a feature I don’t think that’s the best approach to get your views up is to troll ATR fans lol

proggy death . metal!?

who wrote velocity solo? he's a fucking genius

Boom!! Mine was the 666th like. I feel epic now :p

Technical Death Metal from Germany!!!! ./,,/ no death core scum

no moor than 72 an no less than 69 who translated text to Hebrew Septuagint.

opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and some are shittier than others.