Moribund Oblivion

Moribund Oblivion
Origin	Istanbul, Turkey
Genres	Black metal
Years active	1999–present
Labels	Talheim Records Germany
Members	Bahadır Uludağlar İlkay Canaydın Emir Cosovic Feyzi Ocak
Past members	Duygu Soysal Engin Ufuk Kaplan Uğur Keçecioğlu Adam Şentürk Barbaros Ali Kaynak
Website	[1]

Moribund Oblivion is a Turkish black metal band from Istanbul, formed by vocalist Bahadır Uludağlar in 1999. The band is one of Türkiye's most popular bands in the world metal music arena. It has played in very important festivals / tours and achieved great success in its 25-year history.

Career

The Like a Falling Haze EP was released in 2002 to promote their first studio album, Khanjar, released on 6 January 2004. That same day, Moribund Oblivion performed in support of the Portuguese metal band Moonspell. The band also conducted the first black metal tour of Turkey to promote the album, appearing in Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Eskişehir and Bursa. At the end of the tour, the group performed at the Barisarock and Rock The Nations festivals, and played a gig with Greek black metal band Rotting Christ in Istanbul. The band released a music video for the song, "Ruins of Kara-Shehr", from the Khanjar album, which aired on Turkish channels TRT and Dream TV.

Moribund Oblivion signed with Istanbul record label Atlantis Music for their second album Machine Brain, released in 2006.

In 2008, the band appeared in two Turkish newspapers: Star (July 2008) and Hurriyet (September 2008), as well as headlining the Tbilisi Metal Fest in Georgia and performing at the Interregnum Fest in Rostock, Germany.

Discography

• Like a Falling Haze EP (2002)
• Khanjar (2004)
• Machine Brain (2006)
• Time to Face (2007)
• K.I.N. (2008)
• Izdırap EP (2010)
• Manevi (2013)
• Turk (2014)
• False Consolation (2017)
• Endless (2020)
• Time is an Illusion (2023)