One Machine The Final Cull

2015, Sadly, after the debut, more than half of the lineup of One Machine perished, leaving the founders Steve Smyth and Jamie Hunt to seek out new musicians, and recruited talented ones indeed. Each of the new recruits, Stefano Selvatico (Bass), Michele Sanna (Drums) and Chris Hawkins (Vocals), along with smashing veteran guitarist, proclaimed an epos of depth, emotive outburst and technical competency that left me with a taste to have more of the same dish. THE FINAL CULL is a destructive piece of work, merciless, aggressive, yet also bears the mark of inner closure, transparency beyond the grey looming over the viciousness of modern society. It felt like a pleasurable mixture of later works of Nevermore along with the modern edge of Vicious Rumors and Imagika, promising that there will be no salvation with an additional groove that would be the incarnation of a down tuned Black Sabbath.