Artist: BURST
Album: ORIGO (CD)

Year: 2005
Media type: CD

Sweden's brightest metal hopefuls Burst plow headlong into eternity with their sophomore effort Origo. With flowing grace and force of conviction, Origo's lush layers of sound crush and caress in equal measure. Fragile melodic vocals intertwine with explosive screams, and waves of guitar weave songs as expressive and elaborate as human emotion itself. When the Wave Broke and Immateria exude class and the confidence of a band poised for greatness. Origo is Burst's masterwork of complex, commanding music.

Overall, it has received widespread critical acclaim, from magazines such as Kerrang! and Rock Sound.

Aaron Burgess, writing for Alternative Press describes the album as "a blistering epic, complete with keyboards, acoustic passages and female backing vocals in tow". He continues to add that "Burst sound ready to, well, burst out of obscurity and into the genre-shattering realm of fellow post-metal masters Isis, Neurosis and Cult Of Luna." Speaking on the album's sound, he states that "[t]hough frontman Linus Jagerskog's shearing vocals are terminally locked on overdrive, the rest of Origo is a sweeping, time-shifting exploration of dynamics, moods and tonal color--and while "beautiful" isn't usually the sort of adjective we like to throw at a metal record, in this case, it's the rule, not the exception." The song "Where the Wave Broke" is about Mieszko Talarczyk, the leader of now defunct and fellow Swedish grindcore band Nasum, who tragically and prematurely died in the Tsunami that hit Thailand on December 26, 2004. Jesper Liverod was the bassist of Nasum for most of their career.

TRACKLIST:

1."Where the Wave Broke" – 3:36
2."Sever" – 5:11
3."The Immateria" – 5:22
4."Slave Emotion" – 3:30
5."Flight's End" – 5:13
6."Homebound" – 6:35
7."It Comes into View" – 6:56
8."Stormwielder" – 5:03
9."Mercy Liberation" – 5:22

LINE-UP:

Patrik Hultin – drums
Linus Jagerskog – vocals
Jesper Liverod – bass and vocals
Robert Reinholdz – guitar and vocals
Jonas Rydberg – guitar