Obvurt announces its beginning.
Created as solo project by Philippe Drouin (guitar/vocals), the musician recruits Olivier Pinard (bass, Cryptopsy, Cattle Decapitation…) and Samuel Santiago (drums, ex-Gorod, ex-First Fragment, ex-Black Crown Initiate…) after his injury which made him relearn guitar as left-handed instead of right-handed. The band releases The Beginning, its first EP.
Prelude Dm offers some energetic introduction with keyboard to warm ourselves up before Osteophyte, the first song. Violence and technicality are included on this song, melting fastness and raw strength for frantic heagbanging sessions or explosive mosh. The vocalist’s rage continues on The First Light, a song with heady riffs that keep this part of complexity while playing on a massive and uninterrupted Brutal Death power.
Obverted continues in this alternance between brutality and more technical parts, with mainly a raging tapping and furious blast, that let place to an inspired lead signed by Michael Angelo Batio (ex-Holland, ex-Nitro) that ends on a heavy rhythm part before this dissonant final, dropping us on Scars of War. The song is quite short and picks into Old School sonorities to let place to the whole power. Blast, complex but fast riffs and greasy howlings clash before The End, the last track. This instrumental composition is both the shortest and the most melodic of this EP, but it also allow the trio to affirm their musical direction.
Obvurt creator never gave up, and this EP is his proof. The Beginning announces a brutal basis that fully exposes a massive technicality and a burning rage.
85/100