''Usurped'' album cover by Davide “Dartworks” Mancini
Italy’s groove/death metal band OBBROBRIUS has released their new album “Usurped” today, the 6th of November via Over The Border Records. Featuring 9 tracks for half an hour of musical experience, “Usurped” is the album that the fans of Benediction, Bolt Thrower and Malevolent Creation can not miss!
Stream/download on digital platforms: https://ditto.fm/usurped-obbrobrius
The band’s new album “Usurped” comes in a beautiful 4-panel digipak CD. Order your copy below!
Label Shop: https://www.overtheborderrecords.net/shop/p/obbrobrius-usurped-digipak
Bandcamp: https://overtheborderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/usurped
“Usurped” portrays a quintet confident in their abilities and with a clear vision of their sound. Shouter's ferocious vocal performance, combined with Johnny Hell and Hellkymic Frenk's rock-solid guitars, Dave Filth's omnipresent bass (what a pleasure to hear such a powerful bass), and Metfrey's technical prowess on drums, delivers impactful and dynamically diverse metal. The stated goal is to create a highly rhythmic metal sound that, unlike champions of the groove genre like Pantera and Lamb of God, doesn't keep the rhythm as the sole dynamic throughout the song, but often lets it erupt into death metal outbursts.
Lyrically, OBBROBRIUS draw from true crime and post-apocalyptic cinema, the recent Covid-19 pandemic, and horror literature to address the theme of mental distress. Their lyrics portray people struggling to manage anger (“Blood In My Eyes”), the propagation of distress through TV news during the pandemic (“Chronic Sickness”), and even monsters embodying our nightmares (“Leviathan’s Cage”). Unlike thrash metal and hardcore, however, where the “great machination” is the product of Earth’s powerful who concentrate money and political decisions upon themselves, OBBROBRIUS see human distress and our enslavement as the result of a divine plan, in which the reins of our existence are held by Guardians of the Great Forces (the Yog Sothoth of “All In One And One In All”) and dark armies (“As Angels Fall”).
“Usurped,” a nine-track Dantesque journey into mental distress, will be available in digipak and digital formats from November 6th via Over The Border Records.
Credits:
Recording, mixing and mastering by Comet Broadcasting Studio
Photo by Guglielmo Ciccone
Album cover and layout by Davide “Dartworks” Mancini
Music and lyrics by Obbrobrius.
Tracklist:
1. Leviathan’s Cage
2. Demoniac Illusion
3. Blood In My Eyes
4. As Angels Fall
5. Chronic Sickness
6. Infecting The Holy Ground
7. My Dismembered Soul
8. All In One And One In All
9. Usurped
Obbrobrius photo by Guglielmo Ciccone
