Music:
Member Since: 3/15/2006
Band Members: Stephen Jarrett - Guitars/Vocals
Andrew Ransom - Bass
Justin Wharton - Drums and Percussion
Geoff Ficco - Vocals
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Sounds Like: Metal Review
"With The Goliath, Orgone have succeeded on virtually every level. The sheer technicality on display is enough to get your head spinning, but vitally, it’s balanced out with strong, confident songwriting and a deft emotional punch."
Nocturnal Cult (UK)
"Orgone...take straight-forward death metal and then twist it and splinter it in ways that are both breathtaking and dramatic...nestling in all the dark crevices of your mind before smashing them into powder through sheer power. Each of the six songs on their self-financed debut, The Goliath, makes a personal connection with the listener. Just solid songs that are rippling with strength and flashes of soulful anguish."
Scene Point Blank
"Perhaps the most endearing aspect of The Goliath is the conceptual story told by the lyrics. The lyrical team... has constructed a storyline that rivals that of some of literature's most adept minds."
The Apparatus
"The words of Orgone seem to be abstract descriptive stories with vast metaphors. Their forward-thinking music is accompanied by forward-thinking views...Orgone is completely unique."
"There is rarely a moment when the guitarist isn't stringing together an insane amount of notes that create a kind of minor key whirlwind that also happens to be really melodic at the same time. It's hard to follow and very obscure at times, but it's so interesting to listen to as well as being completely rooted in its own dimension...You won't find gore ballads or odes to dying here. Lyrics are odd and poetic...There is a strange essence to the band; it's thoroughly rooted in the technical death metal prevalent in the early 90s, but it has the forward-thinking mentality and execution of some of the best technical and post-modern bands of today. Orgone seems to want to create a new type of extreme music"
Noktorn
"There’s an incredible level of CONTENT... just in the fucking insane number of notes and fully developed ideas present; this is way beyond what most musicians would be able to think up over the course of several albums, typically...they’re unclassifiable not because they try to be, but because their sound is just so in the thick of all sorts of extreme music. It feels like it was built from the ground up as music first and adhering to a genre last; it’s merely coincidence that it happens to have taken a death/grind form...There’s something about this music that sets it above others of the same style, and I’m still trying to figure out what that is."
Bloodchamber (Germany)
"A really convincing first stroke...ORGONE connect each form of extreme metal into an often desolate, stratified, nevertheless homogeneous sound that occupies the extreme area of modern, progressive American Death Metal, but is also unafraid of incorporating Mathcore, Blackmetal and doom".
Metal Archives
"Some words I'd use to describe it are: unique, technical, atmospheric, organic. Orgone blend tight technical musicianship with great atmosphere which, as a result, sounds kinda organic. I feel like everything flows perfectly."
Record Label: DIY
Type of Label: None
