I hope to write a longer piece that does it some justice at some point, but before any of us get any older I wanted to let everybody know: there's a new album by Origin, who're a death metal band from Kansas. It's called Echoes of Decimation. If you have any love for death metal, it's totally crucial. Right now I am too slack-jawed to say anything besides "wow." And maybe "Jesus Christ." This is the good, hard, cosmic stuff.