Not only does After Oblivion prove they are incapable of writing songs even a third as memorable as anything Death wrote after Human (which is where the brunt of their influence seems to lie) but instead of making an attempt at writing some original material that draws influence from the legacy of their idol, they alienate several groups of listeners that might have found After Oblivion a great band to embrace and grow with. The issue is that, as several people have mentioned across the spectrum of reviews, is that to blatantly attempt at riding the legacy of one of the integral individuals of Death metal sets one up for failure and creates a situation where you are only compared to that incomparable entity.
After Oblivion's 2012 release, Stamina, rides on the heels of a couple of EP's which I'm sure impressed tons of people who believe that Chuck Schuldiner is still alive somewhere out there in much the same way that there are handfuls of near-geriatrics who believe Elvis still lives or that there were about nine hundred people in the state of New Jersey who voted for Jeff Boss with the believe that their vote was meaningful in any way other than a self-ridiculing and posturing action to get a rise out of friends.
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