Agonia Records (2022)
Topeka, Kansas’ Origin have been trying to breakout of deathgrind’s B tier for 25 years, and while they’ve sometimes ascended into the As with songs like “Finite” or albums like Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas , they’ve just as frequently stumbled into the Cs (every LP released post Entity ).
Excusing their self-funded, four-song debut EP, low production values have never been one of the group’s musical setbacks, as genre leader John Longstreth’s clicky clacky kick drums do—to this day—still hit a bit too artificially, but that’s nitpicking what might be the best-mixed and most natural-sounding drum kit in extreme metal’s quarter-century recording history.