Born Of Osiris - The Discovery Review

After writing two middle-rate albums that accumulated several good reviews, but also many unsatisfied ones, that often said that the albums are to monotonic, that they are to “generic” or others, the 5 main members of the band managed to write a unbelievable, maybe revolutionary album. 

This epic work named “The Discovery” is like the name says, a new, fantastic “Discovery” in the progressive metal/djent/deathcore world. It contains 15 highly detailed songs, thereof 3-4 very interesting and soothing interludes that make the album wholly cursive and fit totally between the respective songs. The transitions among the tracks gives you the feeling that you are listening to one song that takes whole 53 minutes, one that does not have ”boring” moments or parts that makes you want to skip the song, and one that is a very good source of inspiration for other musicians that play this kind of music. 

Remarkable are the lyrics of this album and the perfect collaboration between the lead vocalist and the background vocalist (also keyboarder). For maybe the first time, the background vocalist whose vocals are a little bit higher than the gutturals of the lead singer, sings alone whole parts of the songs, making him a kind of “lead 2 singer”.

 Talking about the keyboarder… when I listened to the previous two albums and especially the first one “The New Reign” I always asked myself :”Isn’t he totally bored on stage because he uses his instrument only a few seconds pro song?”. Well, on this new Born Of Osiris release, everything changed. The music is full of keyboard sounds and several effects, and when he doesn’t have to play keyboard, he always sings together with the main vocalist, in a way that remembers me of rap battles, so to say a sentence me, a sentence you, the chorus together and so on.

Before recording the album, the band also recruited Ex-All Shall Perish guitarist Jason Richardson, a master of guitar sweeps, djent and 7 strings that recorded everything flawless. On the album, we can also hear plenty sweeps and crazy, fast riffs & soli that give the album more fluency and niceties. The album was mastered unblemished and the quality is conspicuous. 

In my opinion, “The Discovery” is one of my the best releases of 2011, and maybe the best one. I would recommend this album to all fans of modern metal, you will surely not be disappointed.