Time Machine (tape)

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Time Machine
General information
origin Milan , Italy
Genre (s) Progressive metal
founding 1992
Current occupation
Lorenzo Dehò
E-guitar , now also keyboard, programming, now e-bass and e-guitar
 Gianluca Ferro
Electric guitar, sitar , mandolin
Gianluca Galli
Luca Sigfrido Percich
Marco Sivo
former members
Electric guitar
 Ivan Oggioni
Electric guitar
 Tony Priolo
singing
 Andrea Ruggeri
Electric guitar
 Joe Taccone
Keyboard
 Roberto Gramegna
singing
 Fabio Pagani
Drums
 Antonio Rotta
Drums
 Fabio Brigliadoro
Keyboard
 Mirko Criscione
singing
 Folco Orlandini
singing
 Jonathan Lavino
Drums
 Mark Allegri
singing
 Adolfo "Morby" Morviducci
Drums
 Chris Mozzati
Drums
 Nick Rossetti
Saxophone , later also keyboard
 Stefano Della Giustina
singing
 Nick Fortarezza
Drums
 Claudio Riotti
singing
 Pino Tozzi
singing
 Omar Zoncada
Keyboard (live)
 Eddy Antonini

Time Machine is an Italian progressive metal band from Milan that was formed in 1992.

history

The band was founded in October 1992 by bassist Lorenzo Dehò and guitarist Ivan Oggioni. Together they worked on the first album Project: Time Scanning . The concept album should actually end the musical work of the two. Together with the singer Andrea Ruggeri and other guest musicians, they recorded the album from October 1992 to August 1993. Due to the success of the album, which was finally released in 1993, the two decided to continue the band project. Joe Taccone joined the cast as guitarist and would stay with the band for the next eight years. With a new line-up, the EP Dungeons of the Vatican was released in 1994 , which contains three songs. The phonogram was only released in Japan and contains newly recorded versions of songs from the debut album. Various tours followed the release. In autumn 1994 Dehò, Oggioni and Taccone were joined by drummer Antonio Rotta and singer Folco Orlandini. They then wrote a second album, which was released in 1995 under the name Act II: Galileo . The release was followed by other appearances, including at The Factory Club in Milan on April 6, 1996, when members of the band Angra played a few songs with Time Machine. In 1996 the singer Adolfo "Morby" Morviducci, the drummer Nick Rossetti and the saxophonist Stefano Della Giustina, who was a guest musician on a song on the previous album, joined the band. Della Guistina had previously asked the band if he could warm up with Time Machine for a performance by his jazz band. He was able to win the band over, which is why they considered it appropriate to involve him as a guest musician. The EP Shades of Time was then released in 1997 , including a cover version of the Black Sabbath song Heaven and Hell . The EP, like the album before, received a lot of attention in Japan. In 1997 the band went on tour and also appeared on the Gods of Metal . Shortly thereafter, the singer Morviducci left the band and was replaced by Nick Fortarezza. The group then worked on their next album, which was released in November 1998 under the name Eternity Ends . This includes the song I Believe Again , in which Andre Matos can be heard as a guest singer. The song was also carried over to the EP Secret Oceans Part 2 , which was released shortly thereafter. Before the album was released, Secret Oceans Part 1 had already been released. After the album was released, Fortarezza left the band to start a career as a pop music singer. Since Dehò, Oggioni and Rossetti decided in 1999 to found a side project called Khali , Lucretia Records released the best-of album Hidden Secrets in the spring of 2000 . The sound carrier contains new songs, demo songs and live material. The label Underground Symphony in July 2001, the EP appeared Aliger daemon . The sound carrier contains two tracks that were also used for the next album, as well as an old one that was newly recorded. The new line-up consisted of the singer Pino Tozzi, the drummer Claudio Riotti, the guitarist Gianluca Ferro, who had already helped out at Khali's Gods of Metal in 2000. Eddy Antonini was the guest keyboarder on the EP. In October 2001 the album Evil - Liber Primus was released , the first part of the so-called Eymerich trilogy. On the second part Reviviscence - Liber Secundus , which was released in 2004, the Angra guitarists Rafael Bittencourt and Kiko Loureiro, the keyboardist Fabio Ribeiro ( Shaman ), the guitarist Mariano Croce and the keyboardist Andrea Mastroianni (both from the band Concept ) were guest musicians to listen. Matteo Giuliani also contributed backing vocals . Then the line-up of the band changed again, so that the group consisted of the singer Marco Sivo, the guitarist and bassist Gianluca Ferro and the bassist, guitarist and keyboardist Lorenzo Dehò. In addition, two members who were already in the band during Evil - Liber Primus returned to the cast: keyboardist Alex Del Vecchio and drummer Claudio Riotti. The group then recorded the last part of the trilogy in the Villa Pomini Studio in Castellanza under the direction of Gianluca Ferro and Andrea Bernardi . The release of the album was planned for April / May 2007, but this has not yet happened.

style

According to the band's Myspace profile, Act II: Galileo is based on the life of Galileo Galilei . Evil - Liber Primus is based on the novel Cherudek by Valerio Evangelisti . According to Javier Ros Mellado of progarchives.com , the band plays progressive metal in the style of groups like Queensrÿche and Fates Warning .

According to Stefan Glas from Metal Hammer , the band plays on Project: Time Scanning Metal , which is “experimental, sounding up-to-date, powerful, with great melodies [and] interpreted excellently”. In his review of Hidden Secrets , Andreas Schöwe ​​from the same magazine assigned the band to Progressive Metal. The sound carrier shows that "the history of rock in southern Europe didn't just begin with Rhapsody and Labyrinth ". Armin Schäfer from Metal Hammer stated in his review of Evil - Liber Primus that although the group had been overtaken commercially by bands like Rhapsody and Labyrinth, it was in no way inferior to the two bands in terms of quality. Time Machine was still too tricky and complex on its predecessors, while the focus is now increasingly on catchy melodies and easily comprehensible refrains. In the song Army of the Dead , the band recall the Threshold song Siege of Baghdad . In an article about the band, Schöwe ​​stated that the band played heavy and progressive metal. On Eternity Ends , the band “succeeded in playing an independent, multi-faceted melodic- prog-rock characterized by poignant atmospheres and catchy melodies ”. In an interview with Schöwe, Lorenzo Dehò stated that the band intended to shed light on various paradoxes with their lyrics . In addition, they want to address important moments in the history of civilization, such as why we would start our era with the birth of Jesus Christ and who was responsible for our worshiping something that we didn't even know whether it was true or not . As further examples, he cited the building of the Egyptian pyramids , which are still difficult to replicate with today's technology, or why as a child you learn to idolize idols that, from his point of view today, he could never accept. In another issue, Metal Hammer wrote that the band was a kind of founder of a new Italian metal wave. Again, the group was assigned to Progressive Metal.

Frank Trojan from Rock Hard assigned the band to progressive and power metal . In addition, the band plays "Epic Hard Rock ", which is not comparable to the music of Hammerfall , Rhapsody or Stratovarius , but rather independent. In an interview with Trojan Dehò stated that although the band had worked with progressive and hard passages, they wanted to create a rock album with different influences. An example of these influences is classical music or South American Latino music. Dehò was listening to a lot of classical and salsa at the time the album was written . Most of the ideas for the content of the songs came to him while watching TV. The album has a depressive attitude and addresses injustices and disproportionalities in the world.

Discography

  • Project: Time Scanning (album, 1993, Lucretia Records )
  • Dungeons of the Vatican (EP, 1994, Lucretia Records)
  • Act II: Galileo (album, 1995, Spell Records )
  • Shades of Time (EP, 1997, Lucretia Records)
  • Live Heresy (EP, 1998, Lucretia Records)
  • Secret Oceans Part 1 (EP, 1998, Lucretia Records)
  • Secret Oceans Part 2 (EP, 1998, Lucretia Records)
  • Eternity Ends (album, 1998, Lucretia Records)
  • Evil - Liber Primus (Album, 2001, Underground Symphony )
  • Hidden Secrets (Compilation, 2001, Lucretia Records)
  • Aliger Daemon (EP, 2001, Underground Symphony)
  • Reviviscence - Liber Secundus (Album, 2004, Lucretia Records)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Schöwe: Time Machine . Magical moments. In: Metal Hammer . February 1999, p. 98 f .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Javier Ros Mellado: Time Machine biography. progarchives.com, accessed October 29, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b Time Machine . European tip. In: Metal Hammer . January 1999, p. 52 .
  4. ↑ a b Frank Trojan: Dusselige Salsa-Zombies . Time Machine. In: Rock Hard . No. 144 , May 1999, p. 132 .
  5. ↑ a b Time Machine - Biography. metalstorm.net, accessed October 29, 2014 .
  6. ^ Stefan Glas: Time Machine . Project: Time Scanning. In: Metal Hammer . August 1994, p. 62 .
  7. ↑ Andreas Schöwe: Time Machine . Hidden Secrets. In: Metal Hammer . February 2001, p. 98 .
  8. ^ Armin Schäfer: Time Machine . Evil. In: Metal Hammer . April 2002, p. 106 .