Line #4 YMMV/Gorguts


1	* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Pleiades' Dust'' is not exactly subtle about the fact that Islam has contributed untold riches to humanity's scholarship and culture, and Lemay is similarly blunt in interviews about the fact that Muslims shouldn't be universally stigmatised as terrorists.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Basically, all of it, but ''Obscura'' stands out even among their high-quality discography. It's still one of the most highly regarded TechnicalDeathMetal albums of all time. These days, ''Colored Sands'' seems to be regarded almost as highly, or even ''as'' highly.
3	* BrokenBase: A minor case between the old-school style of the band's first two albums and the noisy, dissonant, technical style for which they've been known since. There are plenty of fans who [[TakeAThirdOption like both styles just fine]], though.
4	* CreatorWorship: Undoubtedly one of the most revered acts in death metal that isn't actually named Music/{{Death}}. Lemay and Marston perhaps get the most of this - Lemay for his songwriting abilities and technical skill as a guitarist, and Marston partially for his skill at several different instruments, partially for his output with something like two dozen different acts (including some other big names including Music/{{Krallice}}, Dysrhythmia, and Behold the Arctopus), and partially for seemingly making it his life's mission to give sterling sound quality to as many metal bands as possible.
5	* EpicRiff: A lot. "Obscura", "Nostalgia", "Inverted", "Das Martyrium des...", "Le Toit du monde", and "Absconders" all have excellent examples.
6	* GrowingTheBeard: ''Obscura'' to some extent. The first two albums are highly regarded old-school DeathMetal albums in their own right, but ''Obscura'' was what established their SignatureStyle and established them as DeathMetal legends. The majority of TechnicalDeathMetal in the past twenty years owes some sort of debt to ''Obscura''. This is somewhat HilariousInHindsight when combined with this trope because the cover actually depicts a bearded man sitting in the lotus position.
7	* MemeticMutation: "Gorguts is the new Music/DeathspellOmega". [[note]]The reason behind this meme is the fact that many people think Gorguts is going in a similar direction as Deathspell Omega, whom many fans had thought was no longer around due to a gap between new releases that lasted from 2012 to 2016 (additionally, their last full-length had been even before then, in 2010). As a result, fans are crowning Gorguts as "the new Deathspell Omega". Which is kind of ironic, because ''Obscura'' was an obvious influence on Deathspell Omega, whom Gorguts cited as an influence on their recent material in turn.[[/note]]
8	** A smaller one is comparing ''Obscura'' to ''Music/TroutMaskReplica''. They do have some similarities, mostly in terms of how gleefully they deconstruct their respective genres' conceptions of melody, though the atonality of both albums is frequently overstated: they both do have melodic hooks in most of their songs; they're just weird melodies that are unlike anything most of their listeners have ever heard.
9	* NightmareFuel: Death metal initially sounds frightening to people unfamiliar with the style. Gorguts initially sound frightening to ''metalheads''. Basically everything they've released from ''Obscura'' on is likely to be this for people, at least to start out.
10	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: They're still a revered act and ''Obscura'' is still considered to be one of the greatest technical death metal albums ever made, but newer fans familiar with bands like Music/{{Ulcerate}}, Music/{{Portal}}, Music/{{Pyrrhon}}, and Artificial Brain might have trouble with understanding just how groundbreaking the album was.
11	* OlderThanTheyThink: A lot of the material on ''Obscura'' was written as far back as 1993, if not earlier. The TitleTrack and "Nostalgia" were the last two songs composed.
12	* SignatureSong: "Orphans of Sickness" for their old-school style, "Obscura" or possibly "Nostalgia" for their TechnicalDeathMetal one. Ironically, the latter two were the last songs composed for ''Obscura''.
13	* ToughActToFollow: Subverted with ''Obscura''. While it's still considered their best album, their two most recent albums and subsequent EP are still considered excellent recordings.

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