The destiny of the upcoming Obscura report A Sonication is definitely trying grimmer daily. It began when Exist bassist (and former Obscura bassist) Alex Weber accused Obscura mastermind Steffen Kummerer of plagiarizing roughly half of the only “Evenfall” from materials Weber wrote. Weber alleged that he had “written affirmation that the fabric we contributed to the report wouldn’t be used,” however was used anyway.
Weber later famous in the identical assertion that “I am involved that extra of the music that Chris and I wrote for this album will nonetheless be used with out our consent,” and it appears that evidently it was! Former Obscura guitarist Christian Münzner has now come ahead saying that Kummerer additionally used a few of his materials regardless of being promised that he would not. Münzner additionally calls out Obscura‘s label Nuclear Blast, saying in the event that they launch A Sonication, “they’re thiefs as effectively.”
Neither Obscura not Nuclear Blast have addressed the difficulty publicly. The next is an announcement from Münzner.
“I simply heard extra of the brand new Obscura. There are riffs I had written and was assured wouldn’t be used, and they’re getting used 1:1, observe for observe, stolen, copied, in addition to whole music buildings. Mr. Tech Demise Genius strikes once more I might say,” wrote Münzner.
“If Nuclear Blast releases this they’re thiefs as effectively. I can’t let this slide and discover each authorized avanue. There are limits to how a lot shit we must always tolerate. These songs had been supposed for a solo EP I used to be planning on doing after the Obscura break up, now I cannot do that anymore. This cannot go on. Particularly if we ‘conform to disagree’ due to artistic variations and then you definately use different peoples work, after you say we aren’t on the identical web page what we wish musically?”
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