Album Review: Nailed To Obscurity – Generation Of The Void (Nuclear Blast Records)

After years of meticulous crafting and relentless touring, ‘Generation of the Void’ emerges as the next chapter of the Nailed to Obscurity story, a visceral and evocative testament to the times. Out on September 5th, 2025, via Nuclear Blast Records.

What a fascinating record this is, Nailed to Obscurity taking their melodic death and doom sound in darker, more atmospheric directions, and through that, creating their most immersive record yet. Albeit one that needs time to really let that sink in. Often clever (thanks to their progressive edge), notably heavy, oozing haunting gloom, and with creative twists and turns across ten mammoth efforts, it’s a powerful release.

It doesn’t take long either for the different side of Nailed to Obscurity to arrive as Glass Bleeding puts more emphasis on dark and cold melody, while having bursts of death-infused intensity. It’s a potent opener, setting the scene, and promising listeners an experience that will be varied and long lasting. It also promises melodrama, and that is what we get with some force with Liquid Mourning and Overcast.

Two great examples of Nailed to Obscurity’s more measured approach, letting the instrumentals grip and the atmosphere to sink in, before expanding with powerful riffs, crunchy drumming, and vitriolic vocals. In case you’ve forgotten, the latter of these two tracks in particular, serves to remind you that when they want to get heavy and extreme, they really can.

Ultimately, and as the album goes on, all anyone will note is how versatile it is. From Spirit Corrosion, to the title track, to Echo Attempt, Allure, and Clouded Frame, Nailed to Obscurity showcase their evolution and ability to take their heavy sound in fresh directions with aplomb. Over these tracks you’ll hear a bevy of potent melody, punishing heaviness, thick darkness, and vigorous atmospheres, alongside some anthemic touches (such as Spirit Corrosion’s immense, and unexpected, chorus and the title track’s simplified offering).

It’s a grower of an album, and needs patience, but patience is something Nailed to Obscurity has earned, and there is no doubt that everyone who gives the album the time it needs will come away enamoured with it. I’m not calling it the best thing they’ve done, because it’s not, but it is a strong album and certainly shows a different side to the band.

Emphasising that point is Misery’s Messenger, an apt title and the penultimate track, before The Ides of Life wraps things up in more familiar, but equally sullen fashion. If you’ve loved everything up to this point, you won’t be left wanting come the end.

Nailed to Obscurity – Generation of the Void Track Listing:

1. Glass Bleeding
2. Liquid Mourning
3. Overcast
4. Spirit Corrosion
5. Generation of the Void
6. Echo Attempt
7. Allure
8. Clouded Frame
9. Misery’s Messenger
10. The Ides of Life

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