Obscure Infinity - Dawn of Winter (2010)

   Obscure Infinity's debut was promising and interesting the same time, because even though it wasn't a unified album, still it didn't turn out bad, and opened various different possibilities about how the band could continue in the future.

   "Dawn of Winter" had mixed influences from old school death metal to brutal and technical directions, and showed sympathy even for black/death. They've involved catchy melodic themes, quite basic riffings, rough sound that's kind of close to the Swedish style of death, aggressive intensity, and atmospheric ambitions too. For the mixed main view various things could be responsible, like experimenting ambitions, that are kind of typical about German death metal bands, or even the members diverse musical influences, as they didn't find common ground yet. However, the album became quite complex, and there's a bit of everything to find on it, but this complexity doesn't make "Dawn of Winter" too chaotic or too hard to go into. The band tried to pull the songs together as much as possible, and avoided drastic switches. Speed switches are common, but their role is advatageous, since they gave opportunity for the various influences to prevail. This form of incoordination is typical to find at young and ambitious bands, but "Dawn of Winter" was like a step further, half way to unified sound.