In comparison, the title track “Angel or Alien”, a strong track in its own regard is not nearly as catchy or memorable as “White Nile”. “White Nile” has a single riff around which the entire track is built, which when coupled by the keyboards is an instant Egyptian earworm, or rather an ear-scarab that burrows itself into the listener’s brain and stays there for weeks: bouncy, energetic, groovy, and exquisitely layered. Following the album opener, are the two singles, “White Nile” and the title track “Angel or Alien”. “Poster Child” opens with the classic “wooping” keyboard arrangement leading into the syncopated chugs and we’re dropkicked by everything older BoO fans have been missing for many years.
However, with the release of the first single “White Nile” off 2021’s Angel or Alien¸ I can freely admit that I am excited to listen to Born of Osiris for the first time since The Discovery.Īngel or Alien kicks off without any faffy intro that many metalcore bands are wont to do. Admittedly, I didn’t give more than a passing listen to Soul Sphere and more recently 2019’s The Simulation. The controversial departure of Richardson after The Discovery saw a steep decline in quality and the subsequent record, Tomorrow We Die Alive was largely underwhelming, lacking the intricacies that two guitarists brought to the microgenre and the classic BoO songwriting style. It was the strong off-kilter chugs, Phrygian runs, and blistering solos that carried The Discovery and thereby Born of Osiris to the head of the game, in large part due to the songwriting and solos by guitar virtuoso Jason Richardson. The record was a set of expertly crafted progressive metalcore, with djent-infused breakdowns, Phrygian-dominant scale runs giving tracks its “Egyptian” feel, backed with strong keyboard and synth arrangements. The microgenre was championed by Sumerian Records signed bands like Periphery, After the Burial, Veil of Maya, I The Breather, and Chicago-based Born of Osiris.īorn of Osiris arguably hit their peak along with the apex of SumerianCore itself, with 2011’s The Discovery. SumerianCore, a microgenre of progressive metalcore known to a few of the newer crop of “-core” listeners and fondly remembered by a small number of older fans of the genre.
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