Obscura albums ranked
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| 1 |  | Obscura
Akróasis
Unlike most other Obscura albums, the fretless guitar work throughout this gives it a unique flavour. Overall one of the most sophisticated sounding albums they have completed and refreshingly concise and quite varied in style. Lots of neat hooks like the fretless melody breaks in Fractal Dimension, more varied song structures, excellent bass and drumming. |
| 2 |  | Obscura
Diluvium
Tidy to the point of being a bit business as usual, but very dense song structures are done pretty effortlessly and the overall quality of songwriting is extremely high. Not as memorable as Akroasis but very tight and groovy. |
| 3 |  | Obscura
Omnivium
A little more frenetic, dynamic and grand in presentation than Cosmogenesis. Darker, a little heavier, and deeper production lends it a more thunderous presence. About as dense as their songs get but a little less tight and more frantic than the later albums. |
| 4 |  | Obscura
Cosmogenesis
Songs can feel a little basic in comparison to their later material and the relative lack of jazz influence makes it feel somewhat generic, but there is a stronger old school death metal vibe and the bass is extremely commanding on this release. A confident and relatively tight release but not their most adventurous. |
| 5 |  | Obscura
A Valediction
Relentlessly fast and highly melodic, but overall a bit conservative in comparison to the previous albums with some conventional melodeath riffing and the leads feeling a bit more segmented from the regular riffing. Carried by being noticeably catchier than any of their other albums. |
| 6 |  | Obscura
Retribution
Essentially a pretty normal death metal album with rubbish production, but I suppose there are some riffs here and a frantic energy on tracks like None Shall Be Spared that make up for the fact that it's essentially a worse Vader or Sinister album. |
| 7 |  | Obscura
A Sonication
Sloppy boring rubbish. Riffs are cookie cutter in the extreme, the production is both muddy and washy, the music is largely plagiarized from ex-members, and the hooks from A Valediction are completely gone. |
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