Mechina

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Кал, задалбывающий своей идиотской симфоникой в пределах одного трека.

I like the concept, the vocals, the synths. However, in most of their albums, the guitars and drums sound flat. After a while tracks start to blur into one, lacking any of the impact you would get in say, a Fear Factory record. Impact Proxy is still my favourite track, followed by Gene Heresy.

industrial death metal…hmmmm

I keep coming back high on copium... INGMI bros....

Doesn't sound like a return to me at all. Stil treads the same dull waters as past few releases with long and aimlessly boring vocal lines from Mel who has completely replaced Dave as the clean singer. No hooks that surprise and catch you. The song goes nowhere. Seeing this getting compared to TWWL or Coexist is absolutely baffling. There are no similarities whatsoever except the band name.

"Blessings Upon The Field Where Blades Will Flood" sounds like a return to form in my book.:D I really hope there will be more of this quality on the next album.

The sound has decay in after every release, this female vocal in autotuned fucks everything, the instrumentation at same level

good music

Acheron - Embers peak Mechina

Meh-china. Songwriting has been reduced to a wall of noise and nonsensical duet harmonies.

Their most complex album, musically speaking. But ruined by shitty vocals. Please, search for an external producer next time.

Cenotaph is neat, Spasms of Human Tragedy, Cenotaph and Broken Matter Manipulation are my favourites after couple of listens. For the negatives vocals could be arranged a bit better, but I think the issue is that the music is so dense, by the time Joe gets to mixing in vocals there's simply not enough space to put them in the mix and to allow vocals to shine.

Cenotaph is honestly better than Venator, the songs actually sound a bit different and more aggressive. Missing Dave's harsh vocals more and more, but this album still has its moments (title track and Broken Matter Manipulation stand out in particular). Still holding out for something like Xenon soon, I hope..

RIP David and distinguishable songs

Yet another Melchina album. I'll pass this time, saving nerves.

A lot of people are complaining about their last two albums, but I personally like them a lot. As much as I like the heavier songs, I find the songs with clean singing more memorable. Doesn't help that the vocal melodies are expertly crafted and the two singers' styles compliment each other so well.

Venator is much better then Siege, but not the best their work

More atmospheric sounding than Siege, and even though I do like this new album, it's not what I'm looking for. I was hoping actually progressing in the story for once would bring back the classic sound but I guess not.

Just rename it to Melchina at this point. Pretty tired of having her in every song and Dave buried beneath her. Even if the story requires it, I want to hear just Dave singing again. This imbalance is pretty exhausting and makes every song sound way too samey. I miss when Mel was the secret weapon.

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Maybe it sounds like heresy, but Mechina from times of male vocal was loved by me far far more than the current Mechina, with a female vocal. And it's not about misogyny, no. But the band has lost something important for me when the vocals became all female. It sounded different. When there were both vocals, think back to the same "Xenon" days, the band sounded more interesting. IMHO.

Siege is pretty goddamn repetitive but The Worst in Us and the title track are absolute bangers at least, still holding out for another release like Xenon or Progenitor.

Okayish album but Mechina have done much better in the past. The distribution of vocals is a confusing decision that may have conceptual reasons, but due to that a lot of songs sound very samey.

New album on January 1st 2021, like clockwork, bless!

OMG! This band is extremely good

Atmosphere of the songs are sensational, reminds me of Blade runner and other futuristic films.

Invictus Daedalus - I feel like I'm gonna fuck something up at work when I run this track

I liked Core version of Telesterion so much more than the original album. Core has pretty much death metal sound with unmuffled guitars and drums, and without any vocals and synths.

Am I the only one who DOES like the new album? It's definitely the weakest link of the prequel arc, imo, but I still think it's good...

Also, though I do like newer stuff, I am starting to miss the industrial/electronic effects they once had. Hope we get some of that, more of Dave's clean vocals, & a better guitar sound on the next one!

Enjoyed the new album Telesterion. Aside from the singles, I did not like it much at all after the 1st listen. However, after the 2nd & 3rd listens, tracks like "Gene Heresy", "The Allodynia Lance", & "Homeworld Salient" have really grown on me. Couldn't get into the title track, and "The Archivarius Chaos Ritual" was probably the most forgettable track with Mel Rose they've done. The mix was OK, guitars & vocals were a little quiet, especially Dave's clean vocals. Really liked that they finally brought Dave & Mel together at last, though there might've been a bit too much Mel on this album. Overall, it's not on par with their classics like Progenitor, Xenon, & Empyrean -- but it's a solid edition to their discography.

New album is more of the same. Some things are great and totally floor me such as The Allodynia Lance, but other things as usual annoy me such as the overdependance on the huge and unchanging 3-4 same note symphonics on top of everything, the lack of electronics, the muddy mix which buries the potentially good riffs and Dave's clean vocals beneath everything. I think after As Embers... Joe wrote himself into a corner that he cannot escape out of anymore. This album could have been on the compendium and people would have barely noticed because it's composed with the same mindset: huge and bland orchestrations without interesting melodies using the ever same notes and buried riffs that mostly just plod along to a rather simple beat. And as much as I love Mel, her presence is too dominating. I liked it when one or two songs featured her, which made them special but this way the novelty wore off and sidelines Dave's clean vocals which I usually prefer. Xenon still reigns supreme for me.

Mixed feelings for Telesterion. I do love the sound of it, musical direction and overall arrangements. Finaly we hear male and female vocals in a duo, there's good balance between all of the elements in Mechina's music that fought with each other for dominance for so many years. Hell, even the production is quite good and balanced, with the exception of rather weak drum sound (again). And yet, the one thing that always worked in Mechina, the melodies and leads, just feels gone. It may be that they tried to go with more complex vocals arrangements than usual, but there was one thing that the album needed for perfection and it was always abundant but now somehow I can't remember a single chorus, a single melody, a single lead, nothing. Probably the most competent Mechina album yet but somehow doesn't have that spark that made me love the previous ones despite their production issues and chaotic direction.

To be honest, I'm not too impressed by "Telesterion" after the first spin. It feels like the guitars are nothing but a side note, forced back by the orchestration. Quite disappointing.

Telesterion is absolutely fantastic.

new album out now : https://mechinamusic.bandcamp.com/album/telesterion

Thank you random guy on a Cyberpunk 2077 discussion group for bringing this to my attention. :)

Also, while I do enjoy the current sound as much as the older stuff, I am missing some of the heavier riffs & electronic/industrial effects. Hope the rest of the album will have some surprises.

"Realm Breaker" is very good. I didn't find it as instantly memorable as "The Synesthesia Signal" or "Cryoshock", but it's still descent. I wish they'd do a couple with tracks with Mel and David's vocals together, that only happened briefly in "Ashes of Old Earth", "To Coexist Is to Surrender", & "The Halcyon Purge".

Realm Breaker is too simplistic for me. It's as if it banks entirely on Mel's voice without any good riffs backing the rest of the song up. The endless droning orchestra is too samey sounding. I hope the rest of the album is much better with the metal being more pronounced again.

New Track! : https://youtu.be/XciV8HuNQLw

Not really a big fan of their releases after Tyrannical Resurrection but they do have a really cool sound. I still think their TR ep is the best sound, still has some rawness to it.

extremely underrated

I've just started listening to Conqueror [Compendium] and I really don't like it. Conqueror has best production out of all of their albums, but this just sounds awful. It reminds me of those nasty DTS/Dolby audio effects that add "virtual surround" that basically flatten the soundstage as if you were listening to music from another room. Even the difference between Conqueror and Empyrean is like night and day, the former sounding much more professional and clean. Ah well, I'm sure others will love it :D

The compendium versions do nothing for me. Totally butchered the songs. Can't really comprehend how that happened.

Such a great band, yet so few know them.

Compendium versions of albums sound really weird to me somehow. Maybe it's because I'm so used to the old versions, but sounds to me that the sound has been changed for the sake of change instead of just improving the mastering. Some songs sound better, but for the most part I prefer the old versions.

So now that we are done with the storyline. Can we get another one with Mel Rose on vocals please? Like a neverending version of "The Synesthesia Signal".