INGURGITATING OBLIVION

Ingurgitating Oblivion biography
INGURGITATING OBLIVION are a German progressive death metal band, founded by guitarist and vocalist Florian ENGELKE in 1995 as OF TREES AND ORCHIDS. ENGELKE was joined by guitarist/bassist Sascha HERMERSDORF, lead vocalist Karsten SCHONING, and drummer Dirk JANSSEN. Together the quartet released two albums before ENGELKE changed the band's name to INGURGITATING OBLIVION in 2001. The "Cadence and Perspective in Desolation" EP would follow in the same year, and over the next four years the band's lineup would shift, with Florian NEUMEYER replacing JANSSEN on drums, Christian PFEIL taking over bass and Ulrich KREIENBRINK on vocals. Their 2005 LP "Voyage Towards Abhorrence" continued the avant-garde approach of OF TREES AND ORCHIDS while pushing it in more brutal directions, with their style described as a mix between GORGUTS, IMMOLATION and MORBID ANGEL. The band would only release their sophomore album, "Continuum of Absence", nearly a decade later in 2014, with Ingo NEUGEBAUER having replaced NEUMEYER.

Ingurgitating Oblivion's third album, 2017's "Vision Wallows in Symphonies of Light", was a demonstrable advance in songwriting ambition and execution, with the band paired down to just ENGELKE and multi-instrumentalist Adrian BOJAROWSKI, along with session musicians Norbert MULLER on guitars, Jan FERDINAND on guitars and vibraphone and DEFEATED SANITY drummer Lille GRUBER filling out the lineup. A fourth album is scheduled to be released in early 2022.

INGURGITATING OBLIVION's gripping and innovative death metal will appeal to listeners of GORGUTS, AD NAUSEUM, CONVULSNG, BARING TEETH, ATHIEST and ULCERATE.

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