Origins of Evil

All that I can shockingly say when I first heard this was "wow, what a hell of an album!" If your desire is to know what an ideal symphonic black metal release or more particularly Goat Fetus' best work to date, this one is it. . This one has the most sickest guitar work, orchestra and drums that an album needs in order to coin it as a quality release.

Let's look at the sound and riff structure first off. If you have the metal zone pedal more power to ya because the distortion here is maxed out. If you haven't heard this album, the crunch tone is monumental and contains so much thick fuzz that an amplifier can dish out. Next, the riff writing was not overtly complicated and technical. It is just heavy, fast and insanely intense. Their riffs are composed of bar chord usage, tremolo picked notes and fueled with so much energy. To me, the riffs were wholly amazing and flowed well for each song. The production makes the music a little bit hard to hear everything though, that's the only downside. So the album has a little bit of a "live" sound to it. However, all of the instruments and vocals were well mixed together despite this.

My favorite feature of the album are the guitars. Why though? This guy tore it up, his energy is astounding and yet the riffs are basic and well fitting. One thing that will pump you up is the heavy orchestras. His efforts make the songs sound more intense and fast. As a whole each instrument contributed the most ever and every instrument was at their best.

The promise of "Origins Of Evil" is a great one because this album remains in the symphonic black metal archives forever for being one of the best records ever made. I don't like the newer albums and all of the other Goat Fetus releases that I've heard haven't been as original and classic black metal as this one was. What stood out the most again are the guitars, and the orchestra sections. Everything was fueled and fueled with vigor. I discount other Goat Fetus releases and refuse to listen to any of other one of theirs because they're not even close to sounding as good as "Origins Of Evil" is. Long live old Goat Fetus!