Editing Gorguts (section)

===''Obscura'', ''From Wisdom to Hate'', MacDonald's death and break-up (1998–2005)===
In fact, the writing for the following album had been completed by the end of 1993, but due to a lack of label interest the release of the album was severely delayed.<ref name="ztmag.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ztmag.com/blog/news/classic-albums-revisited-gorguts-obscura/|title=Classic Albums Revisited: Gorguts – 'Obscura' {{!}} ZT Mag Featured News|website=Ztmag.com|date=August 12, 2012|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref> Lemay, the only remaining original member, returned in 1998 on Olympic Recordings with a new line-up consisting of Steeve Hurdle (guitar), Steve Cloutier (bass guitar), and Patrick Robert (drums).<ref name=Allmusic/> Under this lineup they released their third full-length album, [[Obscura (album)|''Obscura'']], which has come to be regarded as "one of the most pungently progressive albums ever made, in or out of metal."<ref name="pitchfork.com">{{Cite web|url=http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/18346-gorguts-colored-sands/|title=Gorguts: Colored Sands Album Review {{!}} Pitchfork|website=Pitchfork.com|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref> It shedded whatever remained of their old school death metal sound and embraced a fully avant-garde approach, a style that would become their standard on future releases.

After ''Obscura'', Hurdle left and was replaced by [[Dan Mongrain]] of the [[technical death metal|technical death]] band [[Martyr (band)|Martyr]], and Robert was replaced by Steve MacDonald on drums.<ref name=Allmusic/> Gorguts' next album, ''[[From Wisdom to Hate]]'', was released in 2001. This album is stylistically a mix between the earlier albums and ''Obscura''. Lemay, the primary songwriter on the album, experimented more with the use of sounds, rather than notes, in riffs, such as the opening riff of the album, on the song "Inverted" which uses a combination of pick-slides, pick tapping and traditional picking.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/from-wisdom-to-hate-mw0000000451|title=From Wisdom to Hate - Gorguts {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits {{!}} AllMusic|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=2016-08-26}}</ref>

Steve MacDonald, who had a history of recurrent [[major depressive disorder|depression]], committed suicide in 2002, which eventually led to the split-up of Gorguts in 2005.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/gorguts-drummer-commits-suicide/|title=GORGUTS Drummer Commits Suicide|date=2002-10-21|language=en-US|access-date=2016-08-26}}</ref><ref name=Rockdetector>{{cite web |url=http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/canada/qubec/gorguts |title=Gorguts - Biography |last=Sharpe-Young |first=Garry |publisher=[[Rockdetector]] |access-date=February 24, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081228062918/http://www.rockdetector.com/artist/canada/qubec/gorguts |archive-date=December 28, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In an interview, Lemay said that "When I decided to end the band in 2002 or 2003...after Steve MacDonald passed away, I was done with music and I wanted to devote myself to woodworking full time. I was very happy with all the achievements that the band accomplished so it was all good for me.....no bitterness and no feeling of unfinished business."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.teethofthedivine.com/featured/interview-with-gorguts/|title=Interview with Gorguts « Teeth of the Divine|website=Teethofthedivine.com|access-date=2016-08-26}}</ref> Lemay moved away from Montreal, "because I was done living there. I wanted to be closer to where I was raised and be closer to nature in a way. After Steve's death I wasn't interested in playing music anymore. I was very content with the musical legacy of the band at that point and I was ready to start a new chapter in my life."<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.ghostcultmag.com/colored-sands-in-an-hourglass-an-interview-with-gorguts/|title=Colored Sands In An Hourglass – An Interview With Gorguts {{!}} Ghost Cult Magazine|date=2013-08-24|access-date=2016-08-27}}</ref>