Morris Kolontyrsky – Origination

Progressive metal mavens Blood Incantation guitarist Morris Kolontyrsky extends his tendrils towards the cosmos on his hypnotic Projekt Records debut. The iridescent electric guitar-based pulse shows his affection for shimmering soundscapes, classic Krautrock, and everything progressive. ORIGINATION'S 69 minutes of interlocking textures ring with scorching guitar riffs drifting into sustained ghostly ambient atmospheres.

Kolontyrsky enlists the help of visionary ambient artist Steve Roach to add a deep layer of additional zones, drones, and sonic enhancements. The duo’s previous friendship, and musical engagements with Blood Incantation, led Steve to bring Origination to his friends at Projekt Records; the album offers a new look into the world of genre-blending of metal, rock and ambient music.

Recorded over the first months of 2025, the album makes use of a Roland JP-8000, Korg minilogue, Moog MicroMoog, Soma Lyra 8, Soma Cosmos and his trusty B.C. Rich Mockingbird electric guitar.

Kolontyrsky draws on a penchant for deep dives into Krautrock, progressive everything and drone-ambient. These varied influences can be heard in the combination of ghostly floating and furious understated shredding in “Cyclical Behaviour” and “Expanding and Contracting.” Tracks like “Infiniscape,” “Returning” and “Weaving of Fields” are more ethereal, vast and droning while “Spiraling Into Continuous Self” presents like computerized raindrops falling on the head of Cold War stillness.

ORIGINATION is more than “classic guitar guy goes experimental route" à la Robert Fripp, Manuel Göttsching and Steve Hillage. Kolontyrsky’s debut is a fleshed-out, shifting sonic embrace of varied interests and swirling realms of composite chaos

As a member of progressive death metal quartet Blood Incantation for nigh on 15 years, Kolontyrsky has his fingers in the pie of some of metal’s most confrontational, otherworldly and hyper-dynamic sounds.