Guitar player Sjaak has grown a little soft this summer, and worked on a new musical project called The Fiber. It is somewhere between Radiohead, Massive Attack, Tool, Porcupine Tree, and Lamb (without saying "as good as"). So, if you too are such a softy, listen to the sweet sounds of The Fiber at http://www.obsidian.nu/thefiber.

Obsidian goes 2.0 once more. We have created a Facebook page, so please head over there and become a fan, post your photo's, comments, rants and introduce us to all your friends! Go to our Facebook.

Lady's and gent's, we proudly present to you this very special two episode edition of the Obsidian Studioreports! You'll see how the band has been working on the bass and vocal tracks. Enjoy!

This would either be one of the best the or worst ideas I would make in quite some time. Having a rather cozy (read: small) house, a vocal booth means a big ass piece of furniture which you cannot move with all your strength. And you are not sure if it will actually work.

Hi, I am Sjaak, one of the guitar players of Obsidian. I do some small melodic vocal parts in the band I would like to develop a bit more. I would probably not win the best neighbor award 2009 if I would scream my lungs out it my house build in 1890. So, I decided to build a vocal booth, big enough to hold me, a guitar, a microphone, and an interface to my computer in the next room.

To see a full report with photo's of the construction, read this!

On thursday 16 October Obsidian will be opening up for Setting For Disaster and A New Hope. The gig will be in Club Panama in Amsterdam, who are checking out if metal does really guarantee a good party - which of course it does, so we need you to be there and make this a great night!

In order to lure you out of hiding we will be giving away 10 free tickets! If you want to get one, just send a message to melle[NO]@[SPAM]obsidian.nu with your name and e-mail adress in it and we'll put the first 10 senders on the guest list!

Info:
- www.panama.nl
- 20.00: doors
- 20.30: start Obsidian
- Fee: 5 EUR

Yes ladies and gentlemen, we proudly present part 1 of our studio diary, featuring in depth reconnaissance during the recording of the drum tracks for our upcoming album. Please check it out and leave us a comment!

As of yesterday, the recording of our second album has officially begun. For the coming week, Melle and Simon have made a second home of the Excess Studio's in Rotterdam. We will also open a studio blog any time soon where you can follow the whole ordeal, from drums to artwork. We'll keep you posted!

Song Vapours added to our myspace
We have added the song Vapours to our myspace, which now features three songs from our album Emerging (2007). It is a very rhytmic song with a strong groove. Listen and bang you head!

Win tickets to Detonation & Obsidian in de Groene Engel in Oss
On the 29th of February, Obsidian will be playing with Detonation in de Groene Engel in Oss. And you can be there without loosing a dime. Dutch metal magazine Lords of Metal gives away free tickets. Just answer the question stated on their competion page (it's in Dutch).



Look at the pretty pictures
We added some pictures of the show in de P3 in Purmerend on novermber 23. It's like you are at the concert yourself but without sound. So start that mp3 player, put on some Obsidian, and watch the pictures. Thanks to Melanie Buitenhuis and Rolf Rijken.