Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
Release date: | 21 July 1997 |
Style: | Industrial progressive metal |
Owners: |
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01. Seventh Wave
02. Life
03. Night
04. Hide Nowhere
05. Sister
06. 3 A.M.
07. Voices In The Fan
08. Greetings
09. Regulator
10. Funeral
11. Bastard
1 - Not One Of My Better Days
2 - The Girl From Blue City
12. The Death Of Music
13. Thing Beyond Things [bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1997: 7
Featured In "Getting Into: Devin Townsend: Part I: The 1990s"
02. Life
03. Night
04. Hide Nowhere
05. Sister
06. 3 A.M.
07. Voices In The Fan
08. Greetings
09. Regulator
10. Funeral
11. Bastard
1 - Not One Of My Better Days
2 - The Girl From Blue City
12. The Death Of Music
13. Thing Beyond Things [bonus]
Top 20 albums of 1997: 7
Featured In "Getting Into: Devin Townsend: Part I: The 1990s"
Devin Garret Townsend - vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards
Marty Chapman - drums, bass
Additional musicians
Chris "The Heathen" Valagao - backing vocals
John Morgan - keyboards, samples
Additional info
Produced by Devin Townsend.
Rating:
8.8
8.8
Rating: 8.8 |
"O earth, what changes hast thou seen.. there where the long street roars, hath been the stillness of the central sea. The hills are shadows, and they flow from form to form, and nothing stands; Like clouds they shape themselves and go." Lord Alfred Tennyson's poem opens up the aqueous-themed album by Devin Townsend, appropriately titled Ocean Machine: Biomech. The 1997 album consists of thirteen buoyant tracks and avoids many of the pitfalls that plague so many albums in the genre of progressive metal. Rather than saturating the album with overzealous instrumental passages and bombastic vocals, Devin quite humbly allows the different sonic layers to complement one another, yielding an album that drifts along a strong current of transparent inventiveness. The concept elaborates on the malaise of life from an introspective viewpoint and the struggle to find harmony within the macrocosm. There is a sense of displacement conveyed, the uneasiness of being away from home and the pertinent loneliness. The lyrics aren't the most profound or intricately poetic, but they fit within the expressiveness of the music. Read more ›› |
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