Origo is the fourth full length album by Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 progressive metal

Progressive metal

Progressive metal is a subgenre of heavy metal originating in the United Kingdom and North America in the late 1980s...

 band Burst

Burst (band)

Burst was a progressive metal band from Kristinehamn, Sweden. They were formed in 1993 by Jesper Liveröd, Linus Jägerskog and Patrik Hultin. Guitarists Robert Reinholdz and Jonas Rydberg joined the band a bit later...

, released on October 17, 2005 by Relapse Records

Relapse Records

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

Kerrang!

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and Rock Sound

Rock Sound

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.

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

Post-metal

Post-metal is a music genre, a mixture between the genres of post-rock and heavy metal.Hydra Head Records owner and Isis frontman Aaron Turner originally termed the genre "thinking man's metal", demonstrating that his band was trying to move away from common metal conventions...

 masters Isis

Isis (band)

Isis was a Los Angeles, California-based post-metal band, founded in Boston, Massachusetts, with a career spanning from 1997 to 2010...

, Neurosis

Neurosis (band)

Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...

 and Cult Of Luna

Cult of Luna

Cult of Luna is a Swedish post-metal band from Umeå. They formed from the remnants of a Umeå hardcore punk band called Eclipse in 1998. They slowly garnered critical appreciation and underground popularity with early releases Cult of Luna and The Beyond ; however, it is 2004's Salvation that can...

." Speaking on the album's sound, he states that "[t]hough frontman Linus Jägerskog'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

Mieszko Talarczyk

Mieszko Talarczyk was the lead singer and guitarist of the Swedish grindcore band Nasum, Genocide Superstars, Krigshot and Charles Harfager...

, the leader of now defunct and fellow Swedish grindcore

Grindcore

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 band Nasum

Nasum

Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein.-Biography:...

, who died in the tsunami

Tsunami

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 which hit Thailand on December 26, 2004. Jesper Liveröd was the bassist of Nasum for most of their career.

Track listing

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

Personnel

Band members

• Patrik Hultin – drums
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• Linus Jägerskog – vocals
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• Jesper Liveröd – bass
  Bass guitar
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   and vocals
• Robert Reinholdz – guitar
  Guitar
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   and vocals
• Jonas Rydberg – guitar

Other personnel

• Robert Johansson – photography
  Photography
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• Henryk Lipp – production
• Fredrik Reinedahl – production
• Wieslaw Walkuski – album artwork