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While we definitely appreciate and respect all the great music that postman Sal brings to the Ripple, every once in a while, the Pope and I get a little excited when something near and dear to our hearts crosses the transom. Pope felt that way with the latest Prong remix offering, bouncing across our desks for days like an amped up ADD child on a sugar high. Me, well, that's the way I felt when OSI's new disc, Blood, landed across my keyboard.

For those who aren't familiar, OSI isn't really so much a group, as it is a collaboration between guitarist, keyboardist, composer Jim Matheos (Fates Warning) and vocalist, keyboardist, composer Kevin Moore (Dream Theater). While those credentials will certainly conjure up a certain type of flourishing, technical prog metal, be prepared. OSI sounds nothing like you may expect from the lineage alone. Bringing in huge amounts of synths and industrial metal vibes, adding in the ambiance of Pink Floyd and an ear towards the crunch of nu metal and the compositions of Radiohead, each song OSI creates is composed by the guys sending ideas back and forth through email. Perhaps it's because of this creative process, or in spite of it, that OSI sounds wholly like it's own technical creation.

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