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Band
Origin
Title
Omnipresent
Type
LP/EP
Company
Nuclear Blast
YOR
2014
Style
Death
6/24/2014 10:07:48 AM - Review by: Greg Watson
Death metal veterans Origin return to the masses with "Omnipresent", the bands sixth album to date. The album provides a dose of technical guitars and grindcore styled vocals through nine sold tech death tracks. The band are very proficient at their craft and churn out the brutality but also give us three tracks as instrumentals. Unfortunately these sort of feel like filler. Most of the songs average about three minutes in length but do tend to blend together after you are a few tracks in. While this isn't quite my pace, Origin definitely is adept at their musicality. Extreme fans should enjoy this.
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  • 1 :REVIEW COUNT
    3.5 :AVE RATING

ALL REVIEWS FOR: ORIGIN
TITLE
DOR
COMPANY
REVIEWER DATE MADE RATING
Informis, Infinitas, Inhumanitas
2002
Relapse
Nate Turpin2/27/2003
-
Omnipresent
2014
Nuclear Blast
Greg Watson6/24/2014
3.5
Unparalleled Universe
2017
Nuclear Blast
David Loveless9/14/2017
4.5

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