It appears that evidently the brand new Obscura single “Evenfall” – from Obscura‘s upcoming file A Sonication – could also be plagiarized. Based on Exist vocalist and guitarist Max Phelps in an Instagram submit, 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 pals with Kummerer, however nonetheless – the accusation of plagiarism nonetheless stands. Phelps gives 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 submit 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 at the moment been working them into an Exist association, so I am personally very conversant in them. I might even argue that Alex undermined the extent of the plagiarism in his wording…it goes past the melody to the rhythmic concepts and growth every time that melody happens. It is not simply the bassline, it is the guitars and drum line as nicely. Listed below are the elements which might 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 might be far larger stretches.
“I do need to make clear that Steffen has been a superb buddy of mine for years and has completed a number 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 as a right, 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 file label’s mental property. On a aspect notice, 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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