Italian Groove/Death Metal Outfit OBBROBRIUS Releases New Single & Video “Leviathan’s Cage” Off Upcoming Album “Usurped”!
''Usurped'' album cover by Davide “Dartworks” Mancini
Pescara-based groove/death metal band OBBROBRIUS has released the music video for “Leviathan’s Cage,” the opening track of the band’s upcoming album “Usurped,” slated for release on November 6th via Over The Border Records.
“Leviathan’s Cage” is a straightforward and impactful track, yet it's not the usual one you'd expect from a death metal band. The lack of a chorus means the song has no real pause, transitioning from two sessions of aggressive riffs to two guitar solos before the conclusion. Through it all, OBBROBRIUS injects heavy doses of groove, extremely present bass, and plenty of rhythm.
“Leviathan’s Cage” is a heavy rotation song, one of those that you will never be tired of playing.
Watch the video of “Leviathan’s Cage” on YouTube:
Stream/download the digital single: https://ditto.fm/leviathan-s-cage
The upcoming album “Usurped” comes in a beautiful 4-panel digipak CD. Pre-order your copy below
Label Shop: https://www.overtheborderrecords.net/shop/p/obbrobrius-usurped-digipak
Bandcamp: https://overtheborderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/usurped
The band’s new album “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
