Obake live at DesertFest in April

I am pleased to report that Obake will be on The Quietus Stage at the Underworld in Camden, London on April 25th, with some more European dates to be arranged for the same period, I'll post them here in due course,  for now,  Magasin 4 in Brussels the next day, April 26th is also confirmed.

Click here for Desert Fest tickets.

Best,

Colin

Obake - December European Dates

See below, trailer for a series of Central European Obake gigs, taking in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia and Italy, kicking off next week in Kufstein.




More dates are in the works for 2015, check the dates here as they are confirmed, and you can also follow the band on twitter @obakemusic.

The new album, "Mutations" (available on CD, vinyl and all the usual download formats) has been getting some great reviews too, you can read a selection below:

The Quietus

SlowEnd

Rock'n'Reel

Echte Leute

Metal Italia

Echoes and Dust

Angry Metal Guy

The Sleeping Shaman

IyeZine

Sentire Ascoltare

Queens of Steel

You can also read my previous blog posts here and here

Line-up will be Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari on Vocals, Eraldo Bernocchi on Guitar, Yours truly on bass and Jacopo Pierazzuoli (from Morkobot) on drums.

Best,

Colin

Obake Press Release and Touring in December

I'll be touring in Europe with Obake in December, dates confirmed so far can be found here  and more will be added in due course. You can also track the dates as they come in by following the link below:

http://www.bandsintown.com/Obake

Official Press Release:

"M" is the latest track to be released from Obake's upcoming second album, Mutations, which will be released via Rare Noise Records this October. Like a number of the new album tracks, it begins with a familiar sound, a thick, sludge- like groove recalling numerous titans of the Southern Rock scene, however it soon breaks down all conventions with a game-changing unsettling vocal interlude which segues into mind-boggling progressive rock, replete with minor chords and epic crescendos. It is songs like this that go a long way to show how Obake take their influences and create something that is uniquely their own.

Obake are Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari (vocals, piano, electronics), Eraldo Bernocchi (guitar, electronics), Balazs Pandi (drums) and Colin Edwin (Porcupine Tree - bass). This second album arrives at the place where the energies of metal fuse with ambient electronica, jazz, and noise with the precision of math-rock and the groove of blues. Obake's sound harks back to the dawn of hard-rock, drawing upon a variety of influences from Sunn 0))), Popul Vuh, Ashra Tempel as much as Slayer, Tool, Melvins and Coil. Obake are made all the more distinctive by the fluid lyrical delivery and musings of a commanding operatic voice.

Imposing in its darkness, encompassing in its beauty and ever powerful, Obake have lost none of their might since the release of their debut, if anything, they are more captivating now than ever before.

Mutations was recorded by Daniel Sandor at Metropol Studio in Budapest, produced and mixed by Eraldo Bernocchi and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari at The Place in Tuscany and mastered by Michael Fossenkemper at Turtletone Studio - NYC. 

Lastly, for a flavour of the upcoming album "Mutations" due in October,  here's "M":