As the slow, ominous chugs of the title track seep in, there's a stark realisation, that even in their blissfully cold environment, Obliveon, and their brand of technical metal, will never truly get their just desserts. It's a shame that so many bands of this type, who lurk in the alleyways of our subconsciousness, will always be perceived as cult acts, but they deserve much more. 'Obscure Mindways' is classy complex thrash, something us thrashers widely appreciated when Megadeth churned it out on 'Rust In Peace', and yet when bands such as Obliveon play an even darker and more progressive style, they remain overlooked. Music is a fickle thing, so grab 'Nemesis ' while you can and be fully appreciative of this remote style of thrashing.
In its icy glare and formidable structure of awkwardness, 'Nemesis' doesn't lose its weight in sound and still heaves with the best. 'Factory Of Delusions' creates a grey kaleidoscope of brutal soundwaves, and the final cut 'Strays Of The Soul' opens with some Cynic-like meanderings before oozing into darkly gothic rumbles and melodic jangling. And it's this kind of experimentation which enables the band to have such an elasticated sound, a wiry frame within which to work such wizardry. Many will find such an experience as alienating, but that's the point of the Obliveon sound, to create an extraterrestrial cosmos where there is no boundary.
8/10
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