Band:	Obscure Sphinx
Album:	Epitaphs
Style:	Doom metal, Post-metal, Sludge metal
Release date:	September 12, 2016
Guest review by:	Marcelo Hissa

[Part I: Pre-mortem]
01. Nothing Left
02. Memories Of Falling Down
03. Nieprawota

[Part II: Post-mortem]
04. Memorare
05. Sepulchre
06. At The Mouth Of The Sounding Sea

With the ease of launching an album nowadays through the internet and the huge amount of bands, it is impossible to get to know everything that arises. The listener should moderate between listening to the old bands with their new releases or collecting dubious tunes. The second way, it's the hard way, but go ahead, you may find a treasure in the end of the road.

I´m saying this because only a few have heard the Polish band - Obscure Sphinx - which is already on the third album. Sludge doom vocalized by a woman (Zofia "Wielebna" Fraś). The Epitaphs cover is simple and does not recall the beauty of the second album Void Mother, but the flaws end there. What a punch right to the chin. Get dirty head to toe with the sludge. "Nothing Left" opens the album by beating your ear and abruptly moderates with clean passages that make the music even more enjoyable. Listen to "Nieprawota" that fits in the one song: serenity, anarchy and pulsation. "At The Mouth Of The Sounding Sea" begins by giving the icy and dark tone and evolves into the angry lamentations of Zofia.

What Obscure Sphinx does very well is to develop the compositions with variations that do not sound petulant. Another treat discovered at random. It causes dismay to know that there is a lot of lost jewelry out there and only after a lot of coal a diamond appears. This album is art and should not live hidden out here.