Track By Tracks: Obscurial - Heretic (2024)

I have never disclosed anything about the song I wrote because it’s up to your interpretation as a listener actually. But consider this as a treat!

1. HEXED:

Just an intro of Witch getting burned, setting up the main theme for the first two subsequent tracks.

2. BLASPHEMOUS CULT:

This song is obviously about a group of people mainly witches that practice and commit blasphemy. Probably the heaviest and fastest song in this album with blast beats pounding and scorching riffs. The first time I heard this song I knew it was going to be our best introduction track.

3. CIRCLE OF HERETICS:

The song that I write for only 15 minutes. The riffs are simple yet make you want to bang your head to the wall. This song is about witch execution, similar to the Salem trial. It has keyboard parts in it, which is very unusual for Obscurial.

4. MAGGOT INCUBATION:

I was having an episode of bad dreams and trouble sleeping last year and I woke up randomly in the middle of the night. It’s the same recurring dream for 3 days, in which I was dead and buried. All of the people I love showed up at my funeral and left me, and the only companion I had left was the maggots eating my flesh

5. LOCUST PLAGUE:

The song that I draw inspiration from is the French movie La Nuée (The Swarm). Scientifically locusts did not harm people, hence the line ‘Arise not to kill but to torture’. This song is another part of our ‘testing new element’ phase with minimal keyboards in it to create a surreal atmosphere.

6. SERPENTSPAWN:

Like our first album, Lovecraftian Horror is part of Obscurial and death metal in general. Serpentspawn is a song about Yig, the serpent god that breeds in the human womb, creating a fusion of human and serpent.

7. CARRION DISEASE:

Carrion, or a crow as we commonly know is a bird that eats carcasses and all of the dirty stuff. What I imagine is when there’s a disease named ‘Obscurial’ infecting the world, there will be drought, famine, and death. It is the only track with death/doom vibes, similar to Obscure Rites: Epilogue from the album ‘Funeral, Burial and Rites’.

8. A CURE FOR SICKNESS:

It’s a story about a man who searching for an antidote to treat his illness. Only to be tricked and betrayed by the ‘doctor’ which is only speeding his death. This is probably the longest song we have written (8 minutes), though the first version is much longer approximately 10 minutes long.

9. ENDLESS TRAUMA:

A 3 minutes’ acoustic guitar outro tailored with a guitar solo depicting suffering of the man at the hands of the ‘doctor’.