Machinery - The Passing
Posted on June 10, 2008 at 8:00 am by admin
I reviewed Machinery’s previous album, “Degeneration”, and while there were some decent ideas floating around, they really needed to be fleshed out. It’s great to hear the amount of progress made on “The Passing”, as there are simply so many bands out there with potential that go unrealized.
They still play thrashy, grooving power metal, high on the Nevermore influence, but this time around, the concept has been reworked, and they’re even managing to move away from Nevermore, getting much closer to a signature sound of their own. Every now and then, they’ll pick a strange synthesizer effect to add a little bit of atmosphere, or the odd death growl, or in the case of the song “Reason is the Truth”, death growls through the complete song.
The transformation isn’t quite complete, as Nevermore is still riding high in a lot of the songs, and the death growls aren’t paced evenly through the whole album, so they tend to stick out like a sore thumb, unlike say with Into Eternity might do. Still, if they continue on their current path, I can easily see the next album after “The Passing” gaining tons of attention.
Released June 10th, 2008
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Buy this album at Amazon.com and Amazon.ca
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