Obscenity - Atrophied in Anguish (2012)

   Unlike most other ancient death metal bands who split up or changed style or both from the mid '90s, Obscenity were always around and never fell into drastic changes. Even though Obscenity was definitely amongst the best death metal bands, they've never gained wide attention, and kept their underground status.
   However their music changed a lot during the decades. After their excellent old school death metal debut "Suffocated Truth" the band had a brutal death return, and stayed at this style after, experimenting sometimes with sound, sometimes with the complexity of their music album by album. "Atrophied in Anguish" was their 8th full-lenght release that was probably their most devastating record ever. The combination of extreme intensity, catchy themes and great modern sound quality had their most advantageous cooperation on this album. After the late '00s have been passed, the twilight of the brutal/technical/progressive death metal wave was over, and old school bands formed in increasing numbers. With "Atrophied in Anguish" Obscenity basically released such an excellent brutal death album that couldn't be heard while that actual wave lasted, proving that the routine of a band that have been formed in the golden age of the genre could beat easily any new waved technical or progressive trends. And also could define the most determining and most overwhelming features of the modern aspect of death metal, that are still pretty accurate even nowadays.