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Republic, Mountains of Death Festival in Switzerland and Up From the Ground Festival in Germany, Obscura gained their fanbase and established a proper following in central Europe. In 2007, Obscura performed in several festivals in Europe, followed by their first headlining tour in
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America. On 10 August the band announced their first southeast Asian headlining tour, performing in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates. In November and December the same year a North American headlining tour followed, supported by
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in early 2009. The album sold around 900 copies in the US in its first week and debuted at number 71 on the Top New Artist Albums chart. The band started their first-ever North
American tour as part of the Cosmogenesis Worldtour in April 2009 alongside
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Trujillo, bassist Linus Klausenitzer and drummer Sebastian Lanser parting ways with the band due to musical differences. Shortly after the band announced that former fretless bass player
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on 7 July 2005 and immediately started to work on a follow-up release the same year. With the addition of Markus
Lempsch on guitar and Jonas Fischer on bass the band re-released Retribution on their own label and toured alongside
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Graspop Metal Meeting, Hammersonic Festival, Metaldays and many more followed in July and August. On 20 June, Obscura announced their headlining European tour supported by
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Nature's
Connection to the Spirit World" The album earned positive feedback around the world and entered US and German charts, selling 2,000 within the first week of release in the US. It debuted at number 11 on the USA's
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left at the same time, citing his own interests in forming a separate band. Obscura then hired guitarist Tom Geldschläger and fusion drummer Sebastian Lanser of German jazz metal group
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called "Blasting Bavaria Tour" in 2003, followed by editions in 2004, 2005 and 2007. The band recorded their first and only self titled demo in November 2003 with producer V.Santura (
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of the progressive death metal band Noneuclid, the band making the announcement in September 2011. Obscura started the 164 concert-long Omnivium Worldtour in their home town of
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sessions and three cover songs from the bands Death, Atheist and Cynic. Within 60 days the band generated $ 14,600 in fan donations, almost five times their financial target.
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in support of the album that will take place in 2022. For September and October 2022, Obscura announced a European Tour promoting "A Valediction" with support from
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has been announced for November and December 2023. On November 7th, the band confirmed a European co-headlining tour with US-American progressive metal band
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The band’s biggest influence is Canadian death metal
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1294:References
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164:Website
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