ORIGIN: First 'Entity' Track-By-Track Commentary

The first installment of a track-by-track commentary on "Entity", the new album from American technical death metal innovators ORIGIN, can be found below.

1. Expulsion of Fury

Paul Ryan (guitar, vocals): "Well, I don't how to put it other than we're back! It's just a taste of what's to come. Out of the gate at ludicrous speed with one of the most challenging ORIGIN riffs of all time, then it slams into our traditional pattern blasting. Followed by a new challenge of song composition and dynamics. The last riff is a heartbeat pulse that John throws a machine-gun blast that's just pummeling."

John Longstreth (drums): "A heartbeat with a BAAAAAAD murmur. This first half of this song is like going back in time and visiting the 'Informis Infinitas Inhumanitas' days for me. For 10 years people have been asking ORIGIN to play grooves, so we play some grooves right here. if there isn't enough on this song, what do we do?"

2. Purgatory

John Longstreth: "We play another groove!!!! But immediately bring back the warp-speed brutality. This is one of the handful of songs that we worked on while stranded in Holland for 12 days. Brings back strange memories of experimenting with a five-piece."

Paul Ryan: "I always wanted to do something really heavy and draw the listener in and then explode back out with a really quick riff. Short and sick-like!"

Mike Flores (bass, vocals): "Super-catchy followed immediately by crazy. Fun at first but then it starts to hurt."

3. Conceiving Death

John Longstreth: "The final song of the opening trilogy of 'Entity'. This song incorporates classic ORIGIN death grind, break downs, a really bizarre punch section and some black metal thrown in at the end JUST to make sure all the bases are covered."

Paul Ryan: "About as brutal as you can get on this one for me. Mike and I split up the lyrics/vocal patterns on this one. I wrote the solo w a little IRON MAIDEN harmony at the tail end for fun!

4. Swarm

John Longstreth: "Classic meat 'n' potatoes ORIGIN. Short and sweet. This is the first song Paul and I worked on in my living room with padded drums and a POD plugged into my stereo."

Paul Ryan: "In-your-face ORIGIN. Fast swarming guitars!"

Due on June 7 in North America and June 10 in Europe via Nuclear Blast Records, "Entity" features the following track listing:

01. Expulsion Of Fury
02. Purgatory
03. Conceiving Death
04. Swarm
05. Saliga
06. The Descent
07. Fornever
08. Committed
09. Banishing Illusion
10. Consequence Of Solution
11. Evolution Of Extinction

Bonus track:

12. You Fail!

One of the most intense and technical forces of the contemporary death metal world, ORIGIN has returned to stake its claim as the leader of metal's new wave of extremity with its fifth studio effort. As expected, the death grind trio of Mike Flores (bass, vocals),Paul Ryan (guitar, vocals) and John Longstreth (drums) continues to churn out frantic, hell-paced grids of metal torment, but now further complements the arrangements with a newfound propensity for churning grooves and the hook-laden approach that first reared its ugly, but accessible head on the band's 2007 offering, "Antithesis". The band once again returned to Chapman Recording Studios in Lenexa, Kansas to work with longtime engineer and friend Robert Rebeck.

Catch the band, with their new frontman Jason Keyser, on tour with HATE ETERNAL, VITAL REMAINS and ABYSMAL DAWN in North America starting on June 15 at Emo's in Austin, Texas. Look for ORIGIN on the road in Europe, South America, Mexico, Asia, Australia and the rest of the world in 2011 and 2012.