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The latest effort by Origin (Paul Ryan, Mike Flores, James Lee, John Longstreth, and Jeremy Turner), a Brutal Death Metal band formed in 1997 in Kansas, USA, dates back to 2005 and is titled "Echoes Of Decimation."
The album aims to continue the path taken in "Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas", a 2002 album where Origin had increased their technical/compositional depth compared to their early days, to the point that at times they were considered a Technical Death Metal band. The band is characterized by not having a fixed lead singer, as almost all members take turns at the microphone. Thus, the vocals on the album are disharmonic, consisting of growls alternated with screams (somewhat in the style of George Fisher from Cannibal Corpse, but perhaps at an even more extreme level). The drummer churns out very fast double bass patterns, typical of the genre, although there are certainly superior drummers (just look at Flo Mounier or Henning Paulsen). The riffing is good and varied and seems to be tailored to support the vocal variations. All this might seem like the prelude to an excellent work, which, in my opinion, does not even reach adequacy.
The reason is the excessive coldness; everything seems studied and, above all, already heard. It feels like listening to one of the many up-and-coming bands trying to stand out by emulating the greats of the past without succeeding perfectly. Musically, the group is certainly competent, but unfortunately, they lack the emotional component, which is what makes an album stand out among thousands. It almost seems the group tends to showcase their skill rather than engage the listener emotionally. Listening to this album or any medium-level Brutal Death Metal album is more or less equivalent; perhaps the technical aspect will strike you more, but nothing else. Some might like it, but nothing about this band has left an impression on me. Perhaps it's true that a masterpiece similar to albums like "Tomb Of The Mutilated," "None So Vile," or "Effigy Of The Forgotten" couldn't have been expected, just to name a few, but more could have been done.
Analyzing the CD more closely, the central block is certainly the best, formed by the trio "Designed to Expire", "Cloning the Stillborn", and "Staring from the Abyss", probably the best songs on the CD, or rather, the only ones sufficient in my opinion, but they alone cannot lift the fortunes of the entire album.
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
03 The Burner (02:20)
Death-has come to you
Nothing left to do
Fire - coming at you from all ways
Burned - still alive
Screaming silent cries
Crawling - out to see your fallen world
Flames - fill the sky
Everything will die
The burner - of all worlds has come to you
Gone - nothing gained
Nothing is the same
Failed - burning your flesh where you lie
Now say your prayers
Now is your time to atone
This is your last day
And you will die all alone
Take your last breath
Burning as your lungs explode
The deadly flash
Melting both your eyes away
Burning all your lives away
Burning all your cries away
Burning all your minds away
Burning all your eyes away
Death not dignified
Burning all your lives away
Death not dignified
Burning all your cries away
Death not dignified
Burning all you minds away
Death not dignified
Burning all your eyes away
Scourging the earth to rebuild it for only me
Reface the world to do just as I please with it
The burner set to destroy just what I see in you
The burner sent has erased what I hate in you
The sky black for all time
Now - nothing will exist again
Barren, void, of all life
Empty - now until eternity
Sky is black for all time
Now - nothing will exist again
Barren, void, no more life
Empty - now unto infinity
07 Amoeba (02:19)
Simple, pure life, evoked
Gorged with, illness, disease
Mutate, hidden secrets
Transformed, life forms of death
Treachery constantly bleeds from me
Sinking deep in my seams morbidly
The minute attributes seeping through
Shifting and murdering mindlessly
Invade, attack, attract, assail
Inside, my life, in me, bleeding
Out of obscurity, into me physically, mentally
Invoking inwardly, involuntarily
Out of obscurity, into me physically, mentally
Invoking outwardly, involuntarily, tearing me fiendishly
Out in obscurity, into me physically, mentally
Invoking outwardly, involuntarily
Come into me, and spread the disease
And grow within me - your virus
I have become the vector of pain
Injecting in the amoeba
Mutating me, now I'm the disease
Contagion in me amoeba
Exit from me, mutant disease
Spout forth demise, topple all life
Agony breeds in me freely
I have become death's amoeba.
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