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When Obscura, Decrepit Birth, Fractal Universe, and even the legendary Atheist hit the stage in Greensboro, NC, you'd expect a packed house… but nope. 🫥 Hangar 1819 was maybe one-third full — either because it was a Tuesday or because none of these bands can really draw a crowd anymore, not even at a gas station parking lot next to a vape shop. 🤷‍♂️

Still, Obscura crushed it 🔥 — tight, technical, and full of energy, like they were headlining Wacken, not playing for the bartender, security guy, and a couple of die-hard metal nerds who showed up out of respect for Kummerer. Who, by the way, was in top form — meaner than the IRS and just as greedy. 😤 Rumor has it he’s the one banning any YouTube Shorts longer than a minute because Steffen Kummerer doesn’t want to lose his status as a stingy rock diva.

Obscura deserves better — but their path to the metal Olympus is still blocked by a big red gate, behind which a grumpy Steffen is busy kicking out anyone in the band who dares disagree with him. 😈 Hopefully, one day he chills out and they finally move up to bigger venues instead of staying the headliners of 40-person dive bar festivals with more pedals than people. 🐐

🎥 Watch it, like it, and even if Shred Fest was one-third full — the riffs were 100% fire!