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Obscura is the third album by Gorguts. It is recognized as one of metal's most technical and complex albums, consisting of many experimental and dissonant melodies, and strange rhythms.
The album was reissued on vinyl in April 2012 by War on Music, and again in April 2015 on both CD and vinyl format by Century Media Records.
Obscura is a German technical death metal band from Landshut, Germany. The band became prominent when members of Necrophagist and Pestilence joined Steffen Kummerer to release the critically acclaimed second full-length album, Cosmogenesis. Obscura are known for playing highly sophisticated music, with several band members having studied music theory.
Obscura's discography draws significant philosophical influences from Arthur Schopenhauer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schelling, whose writings on Naturphilosophie formed the conceptual basis for their lyrics.
Obscura may refer to:
- Obscura (album), the third album by Gorguts
- Obscura (band), a German death metal band
- Obscura (moth) of the genus Obscurior
- Obscura fragilis, a moth of the Micronoctuidae family
- Obscura niasiensis, a moth of the Micronoctuidae family
- "Obscura" (Smallville episode) from season 1
- Obscura paintings, Obscura engravings: elements in the video game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness
- Obscura Digital, a creative technology company
- Obscura Antiques & Oddities, the store in the TV show Oddities
Usage examples of "obscura".
Watteau, Goya, the camera obscura, all of them open and nested one inside the next.
The way the camera obscura focuses an image on a canvas, how the box camera works, the little cell window projects a mess of orange and yellow, flames and shadows in a shape on the far wall.
I will place my lenses there at the chink through which you were gazing and bring the image down into my camera obscura by a prism arranged for total internal reflection.
With a telephone receiver strapped to my right ear, and my eyes fastened upon the screen of the camera obscura, I would sit by the hour prying into the affairs of the two people in the next room.
He did not reply, but quietly led me into his camera obscura that I might see for myself.
Though it has never been proved, it has long been suspected that he used a camera obscura, a device for projecting images onto a flat surface through a lens.
They have been created in order to give the camera obscura something to do.
Leeuwenhoek arrived with his camera obscura while I was working in the attic.
One day he brought his camera obscura and set it up so they could look at me.
Folliott, to whose fond arms he was returning, passed, as in a camera obscura, over the tablets of his imagination.
Twenty-five years ago I went into a camera obscura, where you see miniature men and women, coloured photographs alive and moving, trees waving, now and then dogs crossing the bright sun picture.
Now I wish I could put before you a coloured, living, moving picture, like that of the camera obscura, of some other wheat-fields at a sunnier time.
Once a mummer had brought his camera obscura to the Sheep Fair and amazed spectators by projecting an image of the world upside down onto the curtain behind him.
Having marched about the space of ten hours, they came unto a place called Quebrada Obscura.
They had reached the bottom of the stairs leading up to the peak and the camera obscura.