It appears that evidently the brand new Obscura single “Evenfall” – from Obscura‘s upcoming document A Sonication – could also be plagiarized. In keeping with Exist vocalist and guitarist Max Phelps in an Instagram publish, Obscura mastermind Steffen Kummerer took elements of an upcoming Exist association from bassist Alex Weber. Weber was briefly a member of Obscura in 2024, and beforehand performed bass dwell for the band in 2022 and 2023.
Phelps notes that he and Weber are good associates with Kummerer, however nonetheless – the accusation of plagiarism nonetheless stands. Phelps offers timestamps of the stolen elements, and it is not nice contemplating it is roughly half the music. Obscura has not but commented on these allegations.
“I’ve by no means needed to make a publish like this, however I’ve obtained to again up my brother on it…the brand new Obscura music is stolen. Alex introduced the elements in query to the desk some time in the past and we had presently been working them into an Exist association, so I am personally very aware of them. I’d even argue that Alex undermined the extent of the plagiarism in his wording…it goes past the melody to the rhythmic concepts and improvement every time that melody happens. It isn’t simply the bassline, it is the guitars and drum line as nicely. Listed below are the elements which can be plagiarized:
0:00 – 1:15
2:14 – 2:34
4:49 – 5:35
“That is 2.5 minutes of a 5.5 minute music. These weren’t Steffen‘s to make use of and now he is making an attempt to blow Alex off by claiming that he ‘modified them dramatically’. He did not… it is not even remotely subjective and there are copyright violations on a regular basis over musical concepts which can be far greater stretches.
“I do wish to make clear that Steffen has been a superb pal of mine for years and has carried out quite a lot of solids for Alex, myself and Exist together with taking us on tour even when our band actually did not have a lot traction. Neither of us take this with no consideration, which sadly makes this much more of a heel flip and an enormous disappointment.
“If Alex nonetheless needs to make use of the riffs then we nonetheless will use them and there is nothing Steffen can do as a result of they’re legally not his or his document label’s mental property. On a aspect word, Robin Zielhorst is superior and I really feel dangerous if he and the opposite new dudes are getting tangled on this.”
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