It’s a simple fact of music that every band has to end at some point, but that doesn’t stop some bands from refusing to quit even after decades of putting out music. Metal and rock have taken such an idea to extreme lengths as we see bands still going after thirty or even forty years, yet they keep on rolling. Eights albums and twenty years down is far from anything to scoff at, and that’s precisely the scenario for which Obszön Geschöpf releases their latest album that’s to date their effort that most resembles metal and takes us back in time.

It’s been far too long that I’ve been able to sit down, listen to an album, and simply be able to come out of it and call it “fun” while being able to leave it at just that. We simply don’t get a lot of albums like that nowadays where such a thing can happen, but it’s Obszön Geschöpf that has accomplished that with “Master of Giallo” which, if I’m to be completely honest, I wasn’t sure if I was going to enjoy. There was something about these ten tracks that took me back to the rock and metal scenes of the late 80s and somewhere in the 90s where we got loads of riffs, plenty of dark imagery, but always a style that seemed almost playful in how it bounced from one catchy beat to the next. And after not too long at all, it’s just that which made “Master of Giallo” a fun album because we get tons of different influences brought to life and executed with so much grace that it feels so natural and sounds so organic that it’s hard to stop listening after a while. Obszön Geschöpf has created something that we’ve heard many times before, but it’s been so long since I’ve heard something like this that it’s become it’s own breath of fresh air that’s all but intoxicating and something that’s more than excellent especially given the monumental contributions of 46 different guests from all over the world of metal adding to the already existing awesomeness that’s created here. Such a thing cannot go unheard, and “Master of Giallo” refuses to be ignored for a second.

Having an album with that many guests can really sound like it fucks up the original idea of the record and can easily result in material that feels slapped together as well as incohesive in nature, but that couldn’t be any further from the truth for Obszön Geschöpf’s 20th-anniversary effort. “Master of Giallo” is the sort of thing that many people won’t be into, but given the chance, I’m positive people will only lose themselves in this record just as I did.

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