Informis, Infinitas, Inhumanitas [Import]

Origin | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 2, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Howling Bull Japan
• ASIN: B0000641LM
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,801,148 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Larvae Of The Lie

2. Inhuman

3. Awaken The Suffering

4. Perversion Of Hate

5. Portal

6. Meat For The Beast

7. Mental Torment

8. Insurrection

9. Implosion Of Eternity (Bonus Track)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "Anyone who isn't dead or from another plane of existence would do best to cover their ears...right about--now.", October 29, 2005

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Barry Dejasu "the_otherness" (Rehoboth, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas (Audio CD)

Thus quoteth Alan Rickman in the film _Dogma_, as sampled in the intro to "Inhuman" - perhaps one of the funniest and most appropiately-themed samples I've ever heard in any form of music.

What can be said about Origin that has not yet already? Probably very little. However, I'll give it a shot.

The instrumentation is simply ridiculous in its delivery. The endless shredding on the three sets of fretboards from guitarists Paul and Jeremy, and bassist Mike Flores, combined with the explosive and machine gun-like battery of John J. Longstreth, make for never-ending stretches of barrage (in perhaps three tempos: fast, ultra-fast, and inhuman fast); it is this jazz-like unpredictability that makes Origin's music a risk to anyone with a knack for headbanging (one is fairly likely to either break their neck or even be decapitated as a result!). And let's not forget the vocals: James' berserk, chillingly inhuman grunting, screaming, and growling (often dovetailed by equally effective backing vocals from Paul and Jeremy) recite often very long and complicated passages of verse with an almost absurd dexterity.

This is technical music from another dimension. Highly recommended for fans of the Dillinger Escape Plan, Meshuggah, and some of the more or less "typical" technical death metal bands like Morbid Angel and Nile. For more great over-the-top technical death, check out Necrophagist and Psyopus.

Finally, I'd recommend putting IcyHot on your neck *before* hitting the PLAY button when this CD is in your player.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fastest & Most Technical Brutal Metal Ever, September 27, 2002

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Azrael (Lake Forest, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas (Audio CD)

The title of this review says it all. This album is the fastest and most technical brutal death metal ever. Period. Not even bands of a similar nature such as Cryptopsy can even come close to it. Also, don't fool yourself into thinking that the songs on this album must be incredibly simplistic and very repetitious to be so fast - these songs have as much variety in playing as they have in speed. From start to finish, "Informis..." will truly batter you and dazzle you with the absolutely insane abilities of Origin. Another pitfall to avoid is thinking that this is the kind of album that can ONLY be made in the studio - these guys are flawless performing live as they are on this disc, which is almost as amazing as the music itself. Many reviewers have written glowing reviews about this album, and none of them have been in vain.

Particularly stand out tracks (though ALL are amazing) are "Inhuman", "Meat For The Beast" and "Portal".

If you're into the absolute extreme technical death metal ala Cryptopsy and perhaps Myrkskog (their new album), then I VERY HIGHLY recommend this! It will forever be a stand out album in terms of its unique nature and one of a kind sound. It is a challenge to the rest of the extreme metal community to possibly try and match. The band's name speaks the truth - they truly are the modern 'origin' of amazing, technical death metal.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As fast as metal gets. Quite good., November 17, 2003

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General Zombie (the West) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas (Audio CD)

I'll keep this review short.(By my standards anyway) This is a good death/grind album. Not excellent but interesting enough to be worth your time if you like the style.

This is the most 'extreme' metal album I've ever heard. The guitar tone isn't the heaviest ever, but the sheer speed and unrelenting nature of the riffs, combined with a totally insane drum assault pretty much crush the vast majority of the opposition. The drumming on this album is simply unbelievable(though they say it's heavily triggered). It's got all the speed and intensity of your standard death or grind blastbeat but avoids the standard and simple 2 beat pattern that most extreme drummers use. All in all, this is one of the most spectacular drummers I've heard in 'extreme' metal, surpassed only by Flo and Brann, from Cryptopsy and Mastodon, respectively. The drum production leaves a bit to be desired. The bass drums are a bit too small and ticky sounding, which occasionally gets on my nerves, as they are going constantly. The guitars are very solid as well. They've got sickening speed, but still are clear and distinct, and even vaguely melodic from time to time. They've got a nice mix of trem and/or non-chord based riffing combined with an unusually choppy(for death metal) somewhat thrash-like riffing. The main weakness are the vocals. This band uses three vocalists, and none of them are very good. They've got 2 growlers and a black metalish screech-growler. The screech-growler is the best of them, though their main problem isn't so much their voices as it is how the vocal lines are written. They are extremely rhythmic and staccatto with an excessively obvious and excentuated melody(such as they have). It's hard to describe. The best I could say is that the vocal lines are structurally a lot more like a rhythm guitar part than they are like most metal vox parts.(The vocal lines even mirror the guitar parts a lot of the time) This isn't helped by the fact that the main growlers doesn't enuciate at all, perhaps the worst I've heard, which makes them even more repetitive. All this gives them a sort of cold, mechanistic feel, which I don't really care for. However, it is very distinctive, and makes the album a tad more interesting, even if it isn't in a totally positive way.

It's hard to pick out standout tracks, as they're ain't much variety here. Frankly, I have a hard time remembering anything too specific about some of the tracks, but they are all good, with out any of them really being fantastic. Portal is probably my favorite, and it is one of the most varied tracks, with a relatively subdued, even atmospheric mid-section and some more melodic guitar work. Inhuman is great too, particularly the intro after the opening sample. I remember Perversion of Hate is another particularly strong track, though I can't recall much about it right this second.

Anyways, me like. Perhaps you would like, who know? END REVIEW NOW!!!!!