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SEMBLANT Release Third Studio Album ‘Obscura’
March 6th, 2020

Curitiba, Brazil-based extreme symphonic metal band Semblant issued third full-length studio album Obscura on March 6th, 2020 through Frontiers Music Srl.

Vocalist Sergio Mazul commented: “The last few years were really intense for the band. Lunar Manifesto received a lot of attention for quite a while after it was first released and it was actually issued twice, independently at first, and then a second time with our previous label – and that meant we promoted it for longer than originally intended. Besides that, we faced some extremely difficult moments in our personal lives during the songwriting process of Obscura and it definitely shows when you listen to it. We put our hearts into this record to help us deal with all the trouble we were facing during that time.”

Guitarist Juliano Ribeiro added: “Obscura is definitely a more mature record. We were really conscious of how we wanted it to be since the beginning of the process, so we took all the time we needed to make the album exactly how we wanted. It’s important to say that we’ve been together as a band for many years now and it also had a big impact on the end result of this record.”

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Murder Of Crows’
02. ‘Left Behind’
03. ‘Dethrone The Gods, Control The Masters (Legacy Of Blood Pt.IV)’
04. ‘Mere Shadow’
05. ‘Porcelain’
06. ‘The Hunter, The Hunger (Legacy Of Blood Pt.V)’
07. ‘Wasteland’
08. ‘Barely Breathing’
09. ‘Wallachia’
10. ‘Daydream Tragedy’
11. ‘Insomnia’ (bonus track)

Semblant’s line-up is as follows:

Mizuho Lin (vocals)
Sergio Mazul (vocals)
Juliano Ribeiro (guitar)
Johann Piper (bass)
Thor Sikora (drums)
J. Augusto (keyboards)

Music videos were filmed for the tracks ‘Mere Shadow’, ‘Murder Of Crows’, ‘Dethrone The Gods, Control The Masters (Legacy Of Blood Pt.IV)’ and ‘Daydream Tragedy’. All four clips can be viewed below.

Second studio record Lunar Manifesto was released in July 2014 through Shinigami Records.

Promotional photograph Alceste Ribas.