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Origin is an American Technical Brutal Death Metal band from Topeka, Kansas. They formed in 1997 by Guitarist/Vocalists Paul Ryan and Jeremy Turner. They were soon joined by Clint Appelhanz (Bass), Mark Manning (Vocals) and George Fluke (Drums).
On July 4th, 1997, Paul Ryan and Jeremy Turner, acquaintances through mutual friends, had a conversation that would change their lives. Shortly thereafter, the two guitarists/vocalists got together and started jamming with the intent to create a band embodying blistering speed Read more on Last.fm
I wish I could give this album a 4+, but there’s two problems here: too many songs and wishful thinking in terms of genre classification. This is not, mainly, ‘brutal technical death metal’. Tracks 1-3 are completely uninteresting grind with some flavors of death. Conversely, tracks 4-8 are mainly death with sections of grind and some almost-black-metal moments, and this is when ‘Entity’ is at its best. I wanted to write off this album as another case of an overzealous drummer with lackluster accompaniment, but Origin is better than you’d think. Really, skip the first three tracks and pretend it’s an EP.