i usually do not buy multiple pressings of one and the same record. i am happy with one copy for the collection and rather burn my money for a bigger range of albums than for a bigger range of colour-ways. for some selected records and/or bands i love to make exceptions. one of those special bands is definitely obscura.
when relapse records announced the re-pressing of the first three obscura full length releases, i walked away with "retribution" only, because i already had first pressings of "cosmogenesis" and "omnivium". when the first pictures of the "omnivium" re-press surfaced on the net, i was really intrigued with the look of the yellow blob of this splatter pressing. it looks so melted and irregular that i kind of wanted a copy.
at the time relapse had sold out on all of their copies. thankfully the band had a bunch of them to offer via their webshop and i got one for my birthday. i went to see them play live in hamburg in last february together with fallujah and boy, they have been great. they had copies with them but i was already covered. 250 copies pressed of this beauty. relapse records. 2011/2019.
