Obscura - Guitarist Working On Instrumental Solo Album
As posted on Blabbermouth, guitarist Christian Muenzner of German progressive death metallers Obscura is working on an instrumental guitar record for a tentative spring release.
The album will feature Hannes Grossmann (Obscura, Blotted Science) on drums, Steve DiGiorgio (Sadus, Death, Iced Earth) on bass and Daniel Galmarini (Mercury Falling) on keyboards, with guest appearances by Ryan Knight (The Black Dahlia Murder, ex-Arsis), Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry, Kaipa) and Bob Katsionis (Firewind). Vic Santura (Dark Fortress, Triptykon) will handle the production duties on the CD, the drums for which will be laid down starting on December 27.
Commented Muenzner: "Being a fan of instrumental guitar music for many years, this has always been a dream of mine. After I finished recording my guitar parts for the upcoming Obscura album Omnivium, I felt quite inspired and spent all of my free time working on the songs for this project.
The CD is gonna contain 12 instrumental songs. Stylistically, the music is quite diverse and has influences from various genres such as neoclassical shred, fusion, power metal, hard rock, prog and thrash metal. And, of course, the songs will have guitar all over it! I like to describe it as '80s Shrapnel Records shred meets modern metal.
I am super-happy and honored that some of the world's best metal musicians agreed to work on this album with me! I'm very excited and can't wait to hear their contributions!"
The album will feature Hannes Grossmann (Obscura, Blotted Science) on drums, Steve DiGiorgio (Sadus, Death, Iced Earth) on bass and Daniel Galmarini (Mercury Falling) on keyboards, with guest appearances by Ryan Knight (The Black Dahlia Murder, ex-Arsis), Per Nilsson (Scar Symmetry, Kaipa) and Bob Katsionis (Firewind). Vic Santura (Dark Fortress, Triptykon) will handle the production duties on the CD, the drums for which will be laid down starting on December 27.
Commented Muenzner: "Being a fan of instrumental guitar music for many years, this has always been a dream of mine. After I finished recording my guitar parts for the upcoming Obscura album Omnivium, I felt quite inspired and spent all of my free time working on the songs for this project.
The CD is gonna contain 12 instrumental songs. Stylistically, the music is quite diverse and has influences from various genres such as neoclassical shred, fusion, power metal, hard rock, prog and thrash metal. And, of course, the songs will have guitar all over it! I like to describe it as '80s Shrapnel Records shred meets modern metal.
I am super-happy and honored that some of the world's best metal musicians agreed to work on this album with me! I'm very excited and can't wait to hear their contributions!"
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| K✞ulu Seeker of Truth Posts: 2573  |
Wow. I'd love to hear this. Steve DiGiorgio on bass... I am stocked.
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| LeChron James Helvetesfossen Posts: 3561  |
The only thing i needed to read was "Steve DiGiorgio".
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| nb Posts: 248  |
Never heard of Obscura, but I will check them out as well. I am always interested in checking instrumental albums, that is how I got into Nevermore, I first heard Jeff Loomis' instrumental album. I recently listened to John Petrucci's Suspended animation and it is awesome. By the way, 80's shrapnel definitely makes it quite interesting.
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504  |
Written by nb on 18.12.2010 at 23:31 Considering your last sentence and your ratings for Death and Septicflesh, I can recommend their Cosmogenesis as one of last year's best albums with death vocals. I've got the song with the [url=../bands/videos.php?band_id=2870&bandname=Obscura]video[/url] in my head right now 
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=28982]wind up[/url] on Sundays
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| Daggon Underpaid M.D. Posts: 1689  |
I read this on Obscura's Facebook and got stoked, it will be interesting for sure. Oh, by the way, for some unknown reason, this news is linked to Blotted Science's profile instead of the one of Obscura. 
---- "Les vers savent qu'ils n'ont pas d'ailes, c'est pour cela qu'ils se cachent sous terre"
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| Syk myspace/bonerama Posts: 1504 |
Written by Daggon on 20.12.2010 at 00:11 It seems smart to me - Obscura fans know that band is working on something so they'll be keeping an eye on the news anyway, while people with Blotted in their fav bands list will get a notification. Sounds quite fitting
---- death ? thrash ? death/doom/prog ? Hail Zoldon! he's not the kind you have to [url=../bands/album.php?album_id=28982]wind up[/url] on Sundays
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