Sunday, May 30, 2010

Obscure Ovations

Proto-death from '86, Sweden's Obscurity were among the first of many sad-eyed Scandi-teens to follow Bathory into sonic Nifelheim and create Sweden's greatest export, Death Metal!!! Their debut, Ovations To Death. was pure primitive exuberance, and pretty extreme for the time. When this was released you were a fucking fetus, poser.

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15 comments:

  1. The Crust MonkMay 30, 2010 at 9:39 AM

    i was 11, blame my mother!

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  2. UnknownMay 30, 2010 at 10:26 AM

    I was 14... Good stuff!

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  3. frigidponyMay 30, 2010 at 11:06 AM

    I was 15.. and not cool enough to know about this.

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  4. AnonymousMay 30, 2010 at 11:21 AM

    i was 11...they got good view in histroy of swe dm book.
    axegrinder croatia

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  5. AnonymousMay 30, 2010 at 1:07 PM

    I wasn't a fetus! I was 2!

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  6. AnonymousMay 30, 2010 at 2:40 PM

    I wasn't a fetus either ! It took 4 more years for that to happen

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  7. StevenMay 30, 2010 at 3:07 PM

    18. Years. And I'm man enough to admit that I've never heard of Obscurity.

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  8. AnonymousMay 30, 2010 at 6:54 PM

    I WAS 47 'N' I ATE FETUSES WIT' THIS BEIN' MY SOUNDTRACK,SUCKAS!!!!!!!!!

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  9. AnonymousMay 30, 2010 at 7:27 PM

    I was born in 87, so i legitimately was a fetus. and i posed hard.

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  10. the one true dead angelMay 30, 2010 at 10:22 PM

    I was old enough to legally drink when this was released, and thus not a fetus, but I still wasn't cool enough to know about it. Shame on me. Thanks for bringing me up to speed.

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  11. AnonymousMay 30, 2010 at 11:31 PM

    I wasn't a fetus, I was 14, and very much into Anthrax.

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  12. jasonJune 1, 2010 at 3:26 PM

    I don't think I would name my band after something I would fall into later on, knowhatImean? As for my 'fetusness', I was 15 at that time and getting my first "10 Tapes For A Penny* (anybody remember that shit?) and masturbating alot.

    *= Not really a penny, but I never paid for them, and used fake names.

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  13. BradethQJune 1, 2010 at 4:49 PM

    Ah, I read about these guys in my good ol' Swedish DM book, now's a good time to check them out. And keeping in line with everyone else's comments; "Wah! I was in kindergarten!".

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  14. psychic vacuumJune 5, 2010 at 4:23 AM

    I was 10 and it's the year I heard Possessed's Seven Churches for the first time and I peeed in my pants listening to it.

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  15. idoJune 6, 2010 at 6:38 PM

    I was six and only listened to Janis Joplin. Didn't start with the death metal until I was 12.

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