Ocean Machine: Biomech

Ocean Machine: Biomech
Studio album by Devin Townsend
Publication (s)	July 1997
Label (s)	HevyDevy Records
Genre (s)	Progressive metal
Title (number)	12
running time	73min 52s
occupation	Guitar , vocals : Devin Townsend Bass : John Harder Drums : Marty Chapman Keyboard : John Morgan
production	Devin Townsend
Studio (s)	The Factory, Vancouver
chronology - Ocean Machine: Biomech Infinity (1998)

Ocean Machine: Biomech is the first solo album by Canadian rock musician Devin Townsend . It was released in July 1997 on his own record label, HevyDevy Records .

Emergence

Devin Townsend had the idea for the album back in 1990 at the age of 18, so that the entire songwriting process dragged on over several years. The base tracks were recorded at The Factory Studios in Vancouver in late 1995 and mixed by Tim Oberthier . Townsend, who was dissatisfied with the result, re-recorded a large part of the album in his home studio and together with Daniel Bergstrand in the Musibelios ( Málaga , Spain ). The mastering finally took place in Sterling Sound in New York City . Townsend sent the finished tape to various record labels , including Century Media , where his Strapping Young Lad project was under contract, but received only rejections. That's why he didn't release the album until mid-1997 on his own label, HevyDevy Records . In March 1998 the album was also released in Germany and Europe on the small Nuremberg label USG Records (distributor eastwest).

Track list

1. Seventh Wave - 6:50
2. Life - 4:31
3. Night - 4:45
4. Hide Nowhere - 5:00 am
5. Sister - 2:48
6. 3 AM - 1:56
7. Voices in the Fan - 4:39
8. Greetings - 2:53
9. Regulator - 5:06
10. Funeral - 8:06
11. Bastard - 10:17
    • 1 / Not One of the Better Days
    • 2 / The Girl from Blue City
12. The Death of Music - 12:15
13. Things Beyond Things - 4:47 bonus track

Reviews

Michael Rensen from the music magazine Rock Hard emphasizes the science fiction atmosphere of the album, which is created by the combination of industrial riffs with "bombastic sci-fi keyboardorcans". He calls Ocean Machine: Biomech an “eschatological goosebumps album”. Jörg Graf from the online magazine Babyblaue Seiten has a hard time classifying the genre, as it is a heavy metal niche between Gothic Metal and Industrial Metal that has not yet been served in this way. Through the use of overdubs and reverb effects an atmosphere like an ocean is created, he sums up that Townsend succeeded with this “melodic-gloomy bombast overkill” a “nice experiment”. John Chedsey from Satan Stole my Teddybear writes that Townsend's textured sound, intense melodic structures and ideas "as big as the Indian Ocean" have created a phenomenal and poignant work.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolf-Rüdiger Mühlmann: The calm before the storm . Interview with Devin Townsend. In: Rock Hard . No. 131 .
2. ↑ Michael Rensen: Ocean Machine: Biomech . In: Rock Hard . No. 130 .
3. ^ Jörg Graf: Ocean Machine: Biomech. Baby Blue Pages, May 19, 2003, accessed October 30, 2010 . 
4. ^ John Chedsey: Ocean Machine: Biomech. (No longer available online.) Satan Stole my Teddybear, June 2000, archived from the original on May 18, 2011 ; Retrieved October 30, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Web links

• Ocean Machine: Biomech at Allmusic (English)