![]() It was originally planned as a theme album celebrating the 2,000-year anniversary of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The album Várar hit stores in March 2009, being distributed by SMP Records/Soulfood. The same year the group signed a new record contract with the music label SMP/Trollzorn. The album Schlachten & Legenden was released in April and distributed by Massacre Records/Soulfood. In 2007 Obscurity celebrated their 10-year anniversary. ![]() In 2006, the band signed a new record and distribution deal with Massacre Records for the follow-up album Schlachten & Legenden. The same year, the band signed a distribution contract with Twilight for their album Thurisaz. Through his joining of the band they gained more heft and enlarged their musical spectrum. After Dornaz’ departure experienced guitarist and longtime friend Cortez took up his position. He is still a 'stand-by' member of the band and also shared the stage with them on their 10-year anniversary. In 2003, founding member Dornaz left Obscurity. Obscurity identifies strongly with the Bergisches Land and use the Bergisch Lion, the heraldic emblem of the counts and subsequent dukes of Berg who ruled there in the Middle Ages, as a 'trademark' which features on almost all their releases. Bands playing this kind of metal often choose names originating from Nordic mythology, so the band name is unusual, but it is representative. This is even emphasised by the Viking metal influences which they developed at a very early stage. Since "obscurity" means 'darkness' as well as 'lack of clarity', it is an apt description of their comprehensive musical scope. ![]() They picked the name Obscurity because in their formative years their musical style could not be clearly assigned to a specific metal genre. The five founding members had already known each other for years before deciding to make their own contribution to metal. Obscurity was formed by Agalaz (guitar), Arganar (drums), Nezrac (vocals), Dornaz (guitar) and Ziu (bass) in 1997. The variant skū- forms the noun skūmaz “scum” (because it covers the water), which becomes scum in English.Singer Agalaz from Obscurity live at Ruhmeshalle (Wuppertal) 2016 In Germanic the variant skeu- forms the base of the noun skeujam “cloud cover, cloud,” becoming skȳ “cloud” in Old Norse, which is the immediate source of English sky (a 13th-century borrowing). The unrecorded Latin adjective scūrus comes from the Proto-Indo-European root (s)keu-, (s)kū- (with variants) “to cover, envelop” ( scūrus therefore means “covered over”). Alternatively, the verb may derive from Middle French obscurer “to make or become dark” or from Latin obscūrāre “to cover, obscure, overshadow, conceal,” a verb derived from obscūrus. The verb obscure may simply derive from the English adjective by functional shift (a change in the grammatical function of a word). The adjective obscure comes from Anglo-French and Middle French oscur, obscur “without light, dark (in color), hard to understand,” from Latin obscūrus “dim, dark, dingy, faint,” an adjective made up of the prefix ob- “toward, against” and the adjective scūrus, which does not occur in Latin. The adjective obscure first appears in English about 1425 (if not earlier) the verb appears around the same time.
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