New and second album from the Polish progressive deathmetal-band Obsidian Mantra.....!!!

On November 27, 2020, the new and second full-length album from Polish progressive deathmetal-band Obsidian Mantra has been released, called 'Minds Led Astray'. This new album has been released on CD and as Digital Release through the band themselves, so this is an Independent Release.

Polish modern death metal band Obsidian Mantra, formed in 2014 in Kwilcz. Three elements have given the basis for its foundation: emphasis on heavy groove, ambitious composing attitude and expressing the overwhelming loneliness andfragility of mankind. Shortly after Obsidian Mantrawas founded, its first 30-minutes EP Burden Brought by Whisperswas physically self-released. Such crave for musical expression and following own vision manifests from this moment and will be accompanying the band further. Following hard work and gaining the stage experience, Obsidian Mantrarecorded its debut full-length Existential Gravity(self-released, 2017). Existential Gravity demonstrated individual approach to extreme music, in which the dissonant and complex rhythmic parts intertwine with writhing melodies, and black metal and experimental influences coexist with atmospheric blurrings, creating the landscape of heaviness and anger, reflection and suffering. Attention to details and search for novelty have resulted in a warm reception of the album, as well as more exposure, especially to the Polish underground scene, which enabled Obsidian Mantra to perform shows on such events as Black Waves Fest or Jarocin Festiwal and sharing the stage with thebands such as Mord'a'Stigmata, Downfall of Gaia, Entropia, Moanaa, Eternal Deformity or Hegemone.

Each subsequent Obsidian Mantra's release brings new themes and incorporates fresh components to the core of groove-centric death metal. In the case of latest Minds Led Astraythe main focus was on writing shorter and more coherent songs –still keeping the refined compositions –and delivering the former dose of groove –but rooted in even more inhospitable and darker sonic aura. Lyrically, Minds Led Astray explores the issues of irrationality and mankind’s vulnerability to it, drawing on and reffering to the skepticism tradition extending from the first protests against witch trails, throughout denouncing the spiritists séances to more recent activitity of modern skeptics.