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"With this "Biomech", we enter a wonderfully tortured world with sounds never heard before"
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5/5
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Revealed to the general public in 1993, the young and unknown Devin Townsend (21 years old at the time) would confirm the praises read about him during the tour promoting the album "Sex & Religion" by supporting the comparison with the fabulous frontman and 6-string virtuoso that is Steve Vai.
After such a great debut, the Canadian was to form his own band in 1995; Strapping Young Lad accompanied by a crazy rhythm section between the sprawling Gene Hoglan behind the drums and Byron Stroud on bass... But it's in 1997, that the young man was going to explode on the front of the metal scene by exposing the two facets of his genius with the release of the mythical "City", a real wall of sound that revolutionized the world of extreme metal under the label SYL and "Biomech" under the stillborn project Ocean Machine that interests us more particularly...
Chronologically recorded just after "City", this album that we will vulgarly describe as atmospheric metal lays the foundations of the Devin Townsend stamped recipe that we will find in all the following DTB albums. Indeed, if the music is difficult to qualify, it is recognizable among all of them... Rare are the artists who can boast of having a sound of their own; Devin Townsend is definitely part of it...
We could quote and discuss all the titles of this "Biomech" from the grandiose introduction "Seventh Waves" to the final "Bastard" and the 2 bonuses... but that would be drowning you under a flow of dithyrambic qualifiers -certainly justified- but which will not help you to better understand this masterpiece...
In addition to the grandiloquent opening that is "Seventh Waves" which highlights the hallucinating association of sharp riffs and heady "popising" refrains, we can mention the atmospheric interludes "Sister" and "3 A.M.". "Finally, we can't pass under silence "Bastard", the 10 minutes long cornerstone of this "Biomech", divided in 2 subparts with an unstoppable melody that transports us all along the track through refrains where the vocal harmonies of the master do -once again - wonders towards a terrifying break leading to the second part "The Girl From Blue City" where the everything is superimposed. This magical melodic recipe, unpublished at the time, has since become a reference, and is sublimated by Devin Townsend's extraordinary vocal performance, sometimes fabulously melodic, sometimes madly raging, linking the innumerable musical atmospheres, helped by layers of keyboards in which the listener is drowning...
With this "Biomech", we enter a wonderfully tortured world with sounds never heard before... From this day on, we can say that Devin Townsend is a genius, certainly sick but like any self-respecting living genius! - Official website
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TRACK LISTING:
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
12. The Death Of Music
13. Things Beyond Things (bonus)
LINEUP:
Devin Townsend: Chant / Guitares / Claviers
John Morgan: Claviers
Jr Harder: Basse
Marty Chapman: Batterie
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READERS
4.1/5 (7 view(s))
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STAFF:
4.5/5 (10 view(s))
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IN RELATION WITH DEVIN TOWNSEND
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LAST INTERVIEW
DEVIN TOWNSEND (FEBRUARY 2019)
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"The hyperactive Canadian is back alone with "Empath", the opportunity for Music Waves to meet the one who had marked the site with his touching revelations..."
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