Ocean Machine: Biomech

Occupation

• Guitar, Vocals: Devin Townsend
• Bass: John Harder
• Drums: Marty Chapman
• Keyboard: John Morgan

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

Formation

The idea for the album had already been developed in 1990 as a 18 -year-old, so that the whole songwriting process dragged on for several years Devin Townsend. The basic tracks were recorded in late 1995 in The Factory Studios in Vancouver and mixed by Tim Oberthier. Townsend, who was dissatisfied with the result, took over a large part of the album in his home studio and together with Daniel Bergstrand beach in Musibelios (Málaga, Spain) again on. Mastering finally took place in New York City at Sterling Sound. Townsend sent the finished tape to various record labels, including at Century Media, where his Strapping Young Lad project was under contract, but received only refusals. Therefore, he released the album only in mid 1997 on his own label HevyDevy Records. After he had with InsideOut found a sales, the album was released in March 1998 and in Europe.

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Reviews

Michael Rensen of music magazine Rock Hard emphasizes the sci-fi atmosphere of the album, which will be created with " bombastic sci-fi Keyboard hurricanes " by the combination of industrial riffs. He calls Ocean Machine: Biomech an " end-time [s ] spine-tingling album". Jörg Graf Baby Blue from the online magazine pages it is very hard to classify the genre, since it is a niche between the Heavy Metal Gothic Metal and Industrial Metal, which had not yet been served so. Through the use of overdubs and reverb effects will create an atmosphere like an ocean, he concludes that Townsend had succeeded with this " melodic- dark bombastic overkill " a "beautiful experiment." Writes John Chedsey of Satan Stole my Teddy Bear that Townsend with the textured sound that intense melodic structures and ideas " as large as the Indian Ocean " a phenomenal and poignant work is done.