Obscura New Zealand Show Announced

German progressive death metal virtuosos Obscura are bringing their technically dazzling, head-hammering aural assault to Aotearoa for a special headline event at Wellington's Valhalla this April. Revered worldwide for their dextrous instrumental prowess, mind-frying compositional approach and light speed riffage expressed on their five album-strong discography including 2018's Diluvium, this is the very first local opportunity for you to experience the extreme metal masters live in their element. Check out the details here...

Obscura
Monday 1st April - Valhalla, Wellington
Tickets available HERE via UTR

Experience the virtuosic intensity of the title track to Obscura's 2016 album Akroasis...

Check out the mind-boggling performance clip for Obscura's classic single 'The Anticosmic Overload'...

Press release:

For the very first time, German progressive and technical death metal virtuosos OBSCURA bring their jaw-dropping musical prowess to New Zealand!

From their very beginnings in 2002, the band have demonstrated an uncanny ability for blending different forms of technical, cerebral metal into a coherent synthesis of death, thrash and black metal merged with progressive elements. Not one to bend to convention, OBSCURA distinguished themselves and their unique brand of music via the tasteful use of vocal effects, fretless bass, philosophical underpinnings, and other elements rarely touched on in extreme metal.

In 2018, OBSCURA complete their long-running, four-album conceptual circle with the release of Diluvium. Complete with all the band's signature elements plus groundbreaking polyrhythms, dramatic songwriting, and almost incomparable virtuosity, OBSCURA raise the bar once again with an album that will go down in the annals of metal history as one of the most astonishing performances the genre has to offer.