Obscura is a German technical death metal band from Landshut, founded by guitarist and vocalist Steffen Kummerer in 2002.

With the addition of Markus Lempsch on guitar and Jonas Fischer on bass the band re-released Retribution on their own label and toured alongside Suffocation within Europe in 2006.

The tour started in Athens, Greece and contained 22 shows in Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Hungary, Slovakia, Germany and France.

While Markus Lempsch and Jonas Baumgartl left the band in early 2007, Obscura performed as a three piece with session drummer Matthias Landes of Dark Fortress and Noneuclid.

[7] The band started their first-ever North American tour as part of the Cosmogenesis Worldtour in April 2009 alongside Cannibal Corpse.

Obscura started the 164 concert-long Omnivium Worldtour in their home town of Landshut, Germany, followed by a full European tour alongside Hate Eternal, Beneath the Massacre and Defiled.

On 10 August the band announced their first southeast Asian headlining tour, performing in Thailand, Indonesia, Singapore, and the United Arab Emirates.

In November and December the same year a North American headlining tour followed, supported by Abysmal Dawn and Last Chance to Reason.

In 2014, guitarist Christian Münzner left the band due to creative differences and his inability to tour as a result of his focal dystonia muscle spasms.

[14] Obscura then hired guitarist Tom Geldschläger and fusion drummer Sebastian Lanser of German jazz metal group Panzerballett.

[3] To promote the album, the band has announced a major headlining tour in North America in September and October 2018 with Beyond Creation, Archspire, Inferi and Exist as support acts.

[16] In 2019 followed by the European leg with Fallujah, Allegaeon and First Fragment, Obscura went to Australia and New Zealand before returning to Japan to headline a row of tours under the banner Diluvium.

In March and April 2020 the band embarked on a European tour supported by Dutch death metal veterans God Dethroned, Thulcandra and Fractal Universe.

In April 2020, Obscura announced guitarist Rafael Trujillo, bassist Linus Klausenitzer and drummer Sebastian Lanser parting ways with the band due to musical differences.

[20] Also in November 2021, Obscura announced a North American tour featuring Abysmal Dawn, Vale of Pnath and Interloper in support of the album that will take place in 2022.

[22] For February and March 2023, Obscura announced a North American tour alongside co-headliners Fleshgod Apocalypse, special guests Wolfheart and Thulcandra.

[23] Obscura announced a 10-dates Latin American headlining tour, covering Argentinian, Brazil, Chile and more countries for October and November 2023.

[27] In describing these lyrics, Kummerer states: Cosmogenesis started with the beginning of our existence, the big bang theory if you want to say so, and deals with different layers and synonyms on a philosophical basis.