Italian Orchestral Blackened Death Metal Band OBSCURA QALMA To Unleash New Album “Immortality Through Ashes” on October 23rd via Dusktone; Watch “Obsidian Numen” Visualizer Video!
Venice’s orchestral blackened death metal act OBSCURA QALMA will release their new full-length “Immortality Through Ashes” on October 23rd via Dusktone. The new effort is anticipated by the song “Obsidian Numen,” available as a digital single on the main streaming services as well as visualizer video on YouTube.
Stream/download “Obsidian Numen”: https://tinyurl.com/3ste3pt5
Watch the visualizer video: https://tinyurl.com/55ade278
Pre-order “Immortality Through Ashes” on https://www.dusktone.org/
Exclusive merch: https://obscuraqalma.bandcamp.com/merch
“Immortality Through Ashes” explores the agony of unexpressed potential - the quiet tragedy of carrying wisdom, art, and truth inside ourselves that we fail to share with the world. When the struggle to unleash that craft feels overwhelming, we are tempted by dark alternatives.
“Obsidian Numen” is the shadow that meets us when we falter: the toxic tools, bad choices, and dark compromises we accept when we refuse the grueling path of genuine creation. It is the easy way out, and a debt that will inevitably be paid in full.
“Immortality Through Ashes” is the second full-length album from OBSCURA QALMA and the band’s second release on Italian label Dusktone, following the 2024 EP “Veils Of Transcendence.” Building on their signature orchestral blackened death metal, the album pushes the band’s sound into darker, more expansive territory, incorporating elements of deathcore, industrial metal, technical death metal, and blackgaze. Conceptually, “Immortality Through Ashes” unfolds across eight chapters exploring the meanders of the human condition. Drawing inspiration from the works of Goethe, Kant, and Baudelaire, the album reimagines the figure of Faust through a contemporary lens, confronting themes of desire, transcendence, suffering, egoism, and pride. The album also features a guest appearance from Joe Sinclair, former vocalist of UK metal act She Must Burn, on the track 'Hollow Bastion'.
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