How do I get into Obscura? I definitely see why it's considered one of metal's greatest classics, but it's just so extremely abrasive and experimental. It still hasn't clicked for me :/
>>122928212just listen to more "normal" death metal and when you feel a bit burnt out obscura will seem like a breath of fresh air.
How many times have you listened? It took me several spins before I fell in love
Check out the two 'halves' that led to its creation>Gorguts before Obscurahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y7BdKc9xDM>Purulencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSDjR4PuNfU
>>122928235The thing is, I've listened to hundreds of death metal albums at this point. Considered Dead, The Erosion of Sanity, and Colored Sands clicked instantly for me, and From Wisdom To Hate clicked after a few spins. But Obscura is just so out there. However, I'm still very intrigued by it and find myself coming back to it time after time.
Maybe 20 listens
>>122928257Around 6 times. But there are albums that took way longer for me to click. None So Vile took significantly longer, but once it clicked, it really clicked, and then went on to become my most listened-to album of all time.
>>122928259I like these ones :D
>>122928212It sounds like what happens if you gave a bunch of retards instruments
Just takes time, anon. Don't give up.One of the things I love about this album is how dry the production feels. Out of the bands heavily influenced by this album, that I've heard, most of them rarely go in that direction and I wish I heard it more.
I just think it sounds cool, never sounded weird to me
>>122928305Yeah that's pretty much what you need to do. Just revisit it every now and then when you feel the craving and one day you'll get it. This has happened to me several times with avant-garde albums, be it jazz or metal or whatever. >>122928318stay filtered bitch
>>122928212listen to bartok's 5th string quartet instead
>>122928212We prefer Pleiades' Dust herehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xo9eVty8jM
On the topic of dissonent death metalCheck out Infamia's self-titled from 1994, it's probably the closest 1990s death metal's gotten to sounding like free jazz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_WsE-FO5v4
>>122928212That’s why I liked it
>>122928212I prefer Erosion of Sanity but loved Obscura from the moment I first heard it. Just keep listening, it'll either click or it wrong. Has probably the best drum sound on any death metal album.
>>122928720Good EP. I like it a lot.
>>122928699I actually did, and it was very nice.
>>122928212For me it was>roll huge joint>get my best headphones>sit down cross legged like the cover>completely pitch black darknessTook 2 rounds to love it.
>>122928880nice, try ligeti's 2nd string quartet next
>>122928212>>122928212always thought the cover was a pig man like Ganon from Zelda 1 crossing his arms. Turns out it is an old wizard floating and meditating
>>122929051I think everyone thought it was some kind of pig at first. It truly fits the name of the album.
>>122928720No we don't.
>>122928825This sounds nothing like free jazz
>>122928720Correct.
>>122930279You need to understand essential metal cope vocabulary."Just like classical" means a song has a keyboard"Sounds like jazz" or sometimes "avant-garde" means there's a saxophone"Sounds like free jazz" means it sounds like shit
>>122928720>>122930335>>122930364Get some fucking sleep you schizo freak
>>122930364Sounds about right
>>122930364Correct.
>>122928212The mid point in rapturous grief was what made it click for me. That made me understand the style, very tortured mentally unstable kind of sound
>>122928259rip Steve hurdle, he was the mastermind behind this dissonant style
>>122930364kek
>>122930940Also steve macdonald. The chaos doesn't make sense without him to hold it together.
