Obscura Undead
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Arriving on the scene from Wilton Manors, FL, Obsidian presented themselves as a deathrock band unafraid to embrace the sound of the genre and the more theatrical trappings of both stage rock performances and funerary goth fashion. At the beginning of this year, Obsidian released their latest 8 track offering with the album “19 Dead” on Bandcamp.
Our scene is a fickle mistress, and for as much as goth relishes looking backwards for our sounds – we can be outright harsh and unforgiving when it comes to what we like and what we do not. With close to a twenty-five-year gap between full length album releases, how does a band stack up to the heights of those gothic buttresses they once held up? Where does this leave seminal goth rockers The Wake on their long-awaited return?
Like the band name itself, the music of Camlann calls back to a time that feels more like myth than fact. The nostalgic interests in early post-punk has created a black and white vignette that those who were there for its founding long for again and those who weren’t even born yet strive to re-create.
