After
posting about Obscura, I watched a bookmarked video and realized Gorguts had played a lot of that material in
1995 at the Thirsty Whale, four years before I saw them and three years before the album even came out. They definitely sold it. The first Obscura song starts about nine minutes into the set, and people are still moshing. A few people even get on stage. Gorguts says nothing about how it is completely different from the albums the audience has heard from them. They just say “from the new album”.
There’s definitely a lot more headbanging than when they
performed in 2013 at Saint Vitus, though.