Labels: Relapse
Review by: Kunal Nandi
Forget fellow Relapsers The Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, The End, yadda yadda yadda. Origin are THE most tech shit around. Usually that spells disaster as the band flail about making precisely fuck all connection to the listener, but Origin have got it locked down. Their all-out aural war somehow works in enough listenable aspects to give you the most intense head-spinning half an hour of your miserable fucking life. Not one but three vocal attacks, duelling guitars, brutally tight drumming – same old, same old you could say. Origin have been going long enough to know that you’ve got to have some breathing space, so they’ve melded some jaw-dropping chops with full-on melodic breaks that streak by riding the lightning. This is a truly unbelievable piece of work.