- Anvilicious: Pleiades' Dust is not exactly subtle about the fact that Islam has contributed untold riches to humanity's scholarship and culture, and Lemay is similarly blunt in interviews about the fact that Muslims shouldn't be universally stigmatised as terrorists.
- Awesome Music: Basically, all of it, but Obscura stands out even among their high-quality discography. It's still one of the most highly regarded Technical Death Metal albums of all time. These days, Colored Sands seems to be regarded almost as highly, or even as highly.
- Broken Base: A minor case between the old-school style of the band's first two albums and the noisy, dissonant, technical style for which they've been known since. There are plenty of fans who like both styles just fine, though.
- Creator Worship: Undoubtedly one of the most revered acts in death metal that isn't actually named Death. Lemay and Marston perhaps get the most of this - Lemay for his songwriting abilities and technical skill as a guitarist, and Marston partially for his skill at several different instruments, partially for his output with something like two dozen different acts (including some other big names including Krallice, Dysrhythmia, and Behold the Arctopus), and partially for seemingly making it his life's mission to give sterling sound quality to as many metal bands as possible.
- Epic Riff: A lot. "Obscura", "Nostalgia", "Inverted", "Das Martyrium des...", "Le Toit du monde", and "Absconders" all have excellent examples.
- Growing the Beard: Obscura to some extent. The first two albums are highly regarded old-school Death Metal albums in their own right, but Obscura was what established their Signature Style and established them as Death Metal legends. The majority of Technical Death Metal in the past twenty years owes some sort of debt to Obscura. This is somewhat Hilarious in Hindsight when combined with this trope because the cover actually depicts a bearded man sitting in the lotus position.
- Memetic Mutation: "Gorguts is the new Deathspell Omega". note
- A smaller one is comparing Obscura to Trout Mask Replica. They do have some similarities, mostly in terms of how gleefully they deconstruct their respective genres' conceptions of melody, though the atonality of both albums is frequently overstated: they both do have melodic hooks in most of their songs; they're just weird melodies that are unlike anything most of their listeners have ever heard.
- Nightmare Fuel: Death metal initially sounds frightening to people unfamiliar with the style. Gorguts initially sound frightening to metalheads. Basically everything they've released from Obscura on is likely to be this for people, at least to start out.
- Once Original, Now Common: They're still a revered act and Obscura is still considered to be one of the greatest technical death metal albums ever made, but newer fans familiar with bands like Ulcerate, Portal, Pyrrhon, and Artificial Brain might have trouble with understanding just how groundbreaking the album was.
- Older Than They Think: A lot of the material on Obscura was written as far back as 1993, if not earlier. The Title Track and "Nostalgia" were the last two songs composed.
- Signature Song: "Orphans of Sickness" for their old-school style, "Obscura" or possibly "Nostalgia" for their Technical Death Metal one. Ironically, the latter two were the last songs composed for Obscura.
- Tough Act to Follow: Subverted with Obscura. While it's still considered their best album, their two most recent albums and subsequent EP are still considered excellent recordings.
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