Paul Ryan is a guitarist and singer for the Kansas-based technical death metal band Origin. He is the only member who has been continuously in the band since its formation in 1997.[1] He is an extremely proficient guitarist in the genre of death metal and extensively employs extremely difficult variations of sweep picking in his playing. On Decibel magazine's August 2007 list of the all time top 20 death metal guitarists, he was #20.[2] Prior to the band Origin, Ryan played in bands in relative obscurity outside of his hometown of Topeka, Kansas. Necrotomy in 1991 & Abomination 1992-1993