I'm very much looking forward to the new Origin record, Omnipresent set for a July 4th release via Agonia Records in Europe and July 8th in North America via Nuclear Blast.
This will be the band's first record with new vocalist Jason Keyser behind the mic. I saw the band last winter in Brooklyn (watch their full set) and the dude can deliver.
I'm most impressed with the new album art, designed by Colin Marks of Rain Song Design. Check it out:
Very killer! Frontman Jason Keyser had this to say about the art and the new record:
"We were very happy to be able to work again with Colin Marks of Rain Song Design for the artwork of Omnipresent. He designed the art for our previous album, Entity, which had a barren, stripped down minimalism, but for Omnipresent we wanted bigger. We were looking for something that would represent the total insignificance and helplessness of humanity to the impending doom of the universe that surrounds us at all times. It's a strong running theme of the album lyrically, how our pride and arrogance can advance us as a species in so many ways, eventually conquering the unknown reaches of space, but ultimately we continue to exist only at the whim of the cold, indiscriminate forces that could snuff our sentient spark at any moment.
"The title of the album, Omnipresent, works perfectly with the artwork in the way that omnipresence does not come from expanding to new worlds and growing as a species, but only through being whittled down to a last living being alone in the universe. The final failed experiment of life has no comparison, it is the most powerful, only through our sentient extinction can we finally understand some sliver of godhood."
If you are the type of person who enjoys tracklistings, even though they don't mean anything until you hear the actual music, we got that too:
1. All Things Dead
2. THRALL:FULCRUM:APEX
3. Permanence
4. Manifest Desolate
5. Absurdity of What I Am
6. Source of Icon O
7. Continuum
8. Unattainable Zero
9. Redistribution of Filth
10. Obsolescence
11. Malthusian Collapse
12. The Indiscriminate
13. Kill Yourself (S.O.D. cover song)
Pre-orders now available here.
Origin will be spending the summer opening for Morbid Angel, Dying Fetus and The Faceless on the Summer Slaughter tour. Get dates here.
