The Examiner.com recently conducted an interview with OBSCURA frontman Steffen Kummerer. Excerpts from the interview are available below:

Examiner.com: For many, many years, when people would think of “German metal,” the predominant names that would come to mind were KREATOR, SODOM, OR DESTRUCTION. However, within the past five years or so, bands like you guys and NECROPHAGIST have begun a sort of revolution of German “extreme” metal. Do you feel like you are waving a banner, of sorts?

Steffen Kummerer: “Well, we do have a lot of good bands here, but only a few ever have a dominant international status. But yeah, I think having us tour the US and Japan has helped us usher in a new generation of death metal in Germany. But what’s strange is that in Germany, nobody really supports the death metal bands; I don’t know why. We’re actually bigger in France than in Germany. So it really falls on us to support our friends and take other German death metal bands out on tour, because there are a lot of really talented bands around, like DEADBORN AND DEFEATED SANITY. So we do what we can, and hopefully more German death metal bands will be touring around in the next few years.”

Examiner.com: I think it’s very important that you are doing that, especially for America, because when you ask the average American to name a German metal band, they will be quick to blurt out RAMMSTEIN.

Steffen Kummerer: “[Laughs] Yeah, Rammstein…or HELLOWEEN, but they suck. We really don’t want to be compared to them, and I hope we don’t have any real ‘80s influence in our songs.”

Examiner.com: Now, when someone hears an Obscura album for the first time, the initial bands that spring to mind are ATHEIST, CYNIC, DEATH, PESTILENCE, GORGUTS, and maybe older KATAKLYSM. And yet, you manage to maintain a sort of melodic, passionate atmosphere that you can truly claim as your own.

Steffen Kummerer: “Well, yeah, our main influences actually are Death and Cynic, as you mentioned. I honestly have never heard any Kataklysm. But yes, I would agree; we really try to combine technical ability with good songwriting, strong melody and build an atmosphere. We focus very heavily on making sure that our songs have a good sense of fluidity. That is much more important to us than belting out a riff at 250 bpm…support melodies; f*** technical!!”

To read the entire interview go here.

As previously reported, offers an in depth description of each song on the band's new album, Omnivium, at this location.

Obscura are now streaming Omnivium in its entirety at this location.

Omnivium, the follow-up to the band’s Cosmogenesis album, was released in North American on March 29th on CD, double LP, and digitally. Two versions of the Omnivium CD are available for pre-order now including the standard and limited deluxe version that comes in a digi-pak with exclusive bonus track, embroidered Obscura patch, guitar pick, and an Omnivium album cover sticker.

The Omnivium artwork was designed and laid out by Orion Landau (ORIGIN, DYING FETUS, ZEKE, DISFEAR). The tracklisting is as follows:

'Septuagint'

'Vortex Omnivium'

'Ocean Gateways'

'Euclidean Elements'

'Prismal Dawn'

'Celestial Spheres'

'Velocity'

'A Transcendental Serenade'

'Aevum'

Omnivium was recorded at Woodshed Studio in southern Germany with engineer V. Santura (TRIPTYKON, DARK FORTRESS). The album is based on Friedrich Schelling’s On Nature’s Connection To The Spirit World.

More on Obscura including tour dates at this location.