Track Listing

1. Where the Wave Broke
2. Sever
3. Immateria
4. Slave Emotion
5. Flight's End
6. Homebound
7. It Comes into View
8. Stormwielder
9. Mercy Liberation

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #188295 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds

Album Description
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, while waves of guitar weave songs as expressive and elaborate as human emotion itself. Origo is BURST's masterwork of complex, commanding music.

From the Artist
"BURST have come up with an unexpected classic...truly essential" - KERRANG!

"blistering energy...vast panoramas...immensely powerful and essential" - ROCK SOUND

"an unusually textured exploration of hardcore and NEUROSIS-esque atmospherics" - TERRORIZER

"sophisticated, cosmic and doomy...alternately dark and stratospheric...amazing" - METAL HAMMER

About the Artist
On Prey On Life, BURST constructed powerful, crisp and perfectly balanced music that molded both emotion and intensity. With a sound firmly rooted in metal and the punk/hardcore aesthetic, BURST relies just as heavily on ambience, atmosphere, and tone as it does complexity, aggression and raw emotion. A wholly original entity, Prey On Life delivered unquestionably brilliant music that consumed and digested the listener with grand and hypnotic waves of sound.

Fans and journalists alike praised the album for its stunning songwriting and heartfelt emotion. Metal Hammer named the band as one of its "Hot 50 Bands You Must Hear" for 2004 alongside MASTODON, MINUS and VELVET REVOLVER amongst others. Subsequent UK tours supporting labelmates THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN and MASTODON cemented BURST’s reputation as one of metal’s hottest young bands and, while on tour, the band began preparing material for their next release, Origo, which you hold before you.

Customer Reviews

The year's most rewarding repeated listen
Burst are an experimental/avant garde/post hardcore band who have received quite a few glowing reviews. After listening to "Origo" for the first time, the listener might wonder why Burst are so widely acclaimed, but this album is a creeper--it slowly creeps under your skin with each listen. When you have completely absorbed these songs, you should realize that they are quite unique, complex, interesting, sophisticated, powerful, innovative, and almost amazing.

The majority of this album is quite heavy, but "Origo" really starts to shine when it gets melodic. The first handful of songs, the churning "Where The Wave Broke," the surging "Sever," and "Immateria," do their best to get the listener's blood pumping, with chunky riffs and throat-straining/shredding yells. The fourth track, "Slave Emotion," continues in this vein, and is backed by thumping snare drums, and stomping, Mastodon-esque (almost buzzsaw) power chords.

Song numbers five and six, "Flight's End" and "Homebound," are the first partially melodic tunes on here. "Homebound" begins melodically, with a dreamy, mesmerizing string arrangement. Next, "It Comes Into View," which features a gorgeous, dwindling string arrangement, strummed acoustic guitars, and a sluggish drum beat, is doubtlessly the prettiest song on here.

Lastly, the remaining two tracks are "Stormwielder" and "Mercy Liberation." These two songs return this album to its heavier, doomy, lumbering, riff-based roots.

So, Burst definitely deserve all of the merited, positive reviews. But I cannot stress this enough: "Origo" will most likely take time to grow on you. It isn't instantly gratifying or accessible, but every time you listen to this album, you'll discover something new, and thus enjoy "Origo" a little more.

It Comes into View... In fact this came into View.
BURST - Origo
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Picture taking the powerful assault of: Through Silver and Blood-era, Neurosis. Blending it with Refused's Shape of Punk to Come, song writing ability. Adding touches of Snapcase like Hardcore drumming and almost Mastodon-Esc guitar parts and you have what would ideally be one of the freshest, most original Metal / Hardcore creations in a long time.... Luckily Burst is able to pull off this amalgamation of styles and have even added beautiful, ambient atmospheric passages. For example the acoustic part in: "It Comes Into View" is almost reminiscent of the works of their current touring mates, Opeth. Even the last track "Mercy Liberation" has parts that would not sound out of place on a Queens of the Stone Age CD.
Their added vocal diversity actually compliments this album and may even showcase its aggression better than Prey on Life.
ORIGO would have climbed into my Top 5 of 2005 list had it been released in North America this year. The European Release date was Oct/Nov 2005. So technically this will begin as the best official album of 06 in my eyes!!!
Favorite Songs: Sever, Slave Emotion, and Stormwielder.
5 - Stars

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BURST made me wait, but it was worth it..
I was furious when upon realizing that the release was delayed for North America. But it was certainly worth the wait. Burst has done it again, creatinga beautiful texture that breaks bones. I'm surprised that they retained the "sound" of their previous releases. This sounds like a Burst record without being repetative of their previous releases.

I think people who enjoy Mastodon, Pelican, etc. will VERY MUCH like this release.

Burst is astonishingly good.