{"id":2471,"date":"2015-09-09T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powerofmetal.dk\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2015-09-19T01:25:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T23:25:22","slug":"one-machine-the-final-cull","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/one-machine-the-final-cull","title":{"rendered":"One Machine – The Final Cull"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After their debut album \u201c<\/strong>The Distortion of Lies and the Overdriven Truth\u201d <\/strong>this new one is launched rather fast. I was not that enthusiastic about the debut, especially the somewhat over the top singing and the rather chaotic songs and production\u00a0I didn’t like. With only 2 members left from that line-up, Steve Smyth (ex Testament, Nevermore, Forbidden ao.) and Jamie Hunt (ex Biomechanical) both on\u00a0guitar they recruited three new members. Stefano Selvatica on bass, Michele Sanna on drums and new singer Chris Hawkins\u00a0complete the line up.<\/p>\n

The new vocalist is\u00a0a rather good singer, although his screaming also\u00a0irritates me now and then, but\u00a0he does a\u00a0rather good\u00a0job in general.\u00a0Listen for example to the slower song “The Grand\u00a0Design”,\u00a0with riffs in a kind of Sabbath doom style and the semi-ballad “Ashes In the Sky”, where he really shows what he\u00a0is made of. That last track sometimes made me think of Alice in Chains. The other songs are a mix of technical Bay Area kind of\u00a0 thrash with\u00a0power metal influences. Lots of Nevermore, Forbidden, Vicious\u00a0Rumors and Imagika influences\u00a0I hear in the\u00a0music, but…. all these bands write songs with a head and a tail.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0rather technical and chaotic music on this album is not always easy to follow. That’s the biggest problem I have with this album. Great musicianship, nice drum breaks, nice solos, nice riffs, but not a song that really sticks. Only the slower pieces make sense, but the faster tracks are full of virtuose playing, but without any grip. It is really excellent how the musicians play, but they forgot to write songs that keep hanging. That already was a problem I had with the first album and they still didn’t change that. Standstill is decline they say and that is what this is for me.\u00a0 I really would have\u00a0given more points if the album was worth it, but\u00a0I’m not going\u00a0to fool you.\u00a0If you want to check them out first, you can listen and watch the video below!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JSMSAr-Z_1s<\/a><\/p>\n

Tracklist:<\/h4>\n

01. Forewarning
\n02. The Final Cull
\n03. Summoning Of the Soul
\n04. Screaming For Light
\n05. The Grand Design
\n06. New Motive Power
\n07. Ashes In the Sky
\n08. Born From This Hate
\n09. Welcome To the World<\/p>\n

Playing time:<\/strong> 45:00<\/p>\n

Release date:<\/strong> 18 September, 2015<\/p>\n

Label:<\/strong> Scarlet Records<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> www.facebook.com\/onemachineofficial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After their debut album \u201cThe Distortion of Lies and the Overdriven Truth\u201d this new one is launched rather fast. I was not that enthusiastic about the debut, especially the somewhat over the top singing and [Read \u00bb]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":2472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[415,417,90,418,107,357,416],"class_list":{"0":"post-2471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-forbidden","9":"tag-imagika","10":"tag-nevermore","11":"tag-technical","12":"tag-testament","13":"tag-thrash","14":"tag-vicioius-rumors"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}