Oblivion Machine
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Saratov, Russia |
| Genres | Industrial death metal, Deathcore, Experimental, Doom metal, Gothic metal, Syncretic metal, Cyber metal, Electronic music |
| Years active | 2005–present |
| Labels | Irond, Союз |
| Website | http://www.oblivionmachine.com |
| Members | Alexey Tsykolenko Konstantin Tsykolenko Sergey Kanatyev Karina Nazina Sergey Adrenalinov |
Oblivion Machine is a Russian metal band from Saratov formed in 2005 by two brothers: songwriter, guitarist, and lead singer Alexey Tsykolenko and composer and guitarist Konstantin Tsykolenko. A year later, Sergey Kanatyev united with the newborn group as a permanent bassist.
Biography
The band released their debut album Unnatural & Wrong together with their first video clip Antigod in 2008. The album was released and promoted by Irond recording label. Critical reception of the initial work was enthusiastic: the album was rated with a high mark by leading heavy music magazines[1][2] and musicians received strong support from the heavy music community. In addition, an alternative TV-channel A-one, started broadcasting of the band's music. In 2010, after the outcome of Exilence single, the band decided to record a remix album, which was named Viewpoint collector. As guest musicians were invited Michiel van den Bos, the author of Unreal and Deus Ex computer games soundtracks, dance metal band Xe-NONE, and dj Noiz.
In 2011, the second full-length album Zero-Gravity came out.[3] So far, along with changing recording label to Союз, the group was expanded by new members: a new singer Karina Nazina and a drummer Sergey Adrenalinov joined the band. The album was mixed by Hiili Hiilesmaa (the sound engineer and a producer of Apocalyptica, KYPCK, Moonspell, Theatre Of Tragedy, Amorphis, and Sentenced) at his personal Yellow House studio in Finland. The release became a new page of the band history: their music appeared on a Spanish radio station «Radio Planet» and Russian radio stations «Эхо Москвы», «Planet Rock Music», and «Formula Planet». In addition, the band started a tour across the European part of the Russian Federation. Prior to releasing their first official EP album Starfield in 2012, the group cooperated with Artificial Sun and GlobMetal Promotion labels to present their mutual project VARG. As the result of this collaboration, the same year a unique industrial compilation The Voices of Machine was born. Finally, the band finished their 2³ anniversary by performing at Metal Crowd Festival in 2013[4][5] and releasing their third LP album at the end of the year.[6][7][8] The band works tightly with such musicians and groups as Stardown, Nookie, Tacit Fury and Digimortal. All the LP album artworks of the band are created by Alexey «Gutalin» Kozhanov, a concept-artist of «Prometheus», a sci-fi horror movie by Ridley Scott.
Musical Style
The early works were often classified by musical critics as raw industrial/industrial death metal, but the musicians say that they do not limit themselves by working in scope of traditional genres and prefer to consider their style as an experimental one.[9] The key and recognizable feature of the group's expression is harmonic syncretism of ambivalent musical styles. However, absolutely all the band's releases thematically differ from each other according to traditional genre genesis.[10][11]
Members
- Alexey Tsykolenko — vocals, guitar (since 2005)
- Konstantin Tsykolenko— guitar (since 2005)
- Sergey Kanatyev — bass guitar (since 2006)
- Karina Nazina — vocals (since 2010)
- Sergey Adrenalinov — drums (since 2010)
Discography
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Videography
| Title | Year | Studio |
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| Antigod | 2008 | Foxland Studio |
| Surfacing | 2012 | Inner-vision |
Lyrical themes
From the very beginning, in their lyrics the band mainly refers to such disputable topics as extraterrestrial intelligence, UFOs, life on other planets, the existence of supernatural beings and the concept of God. Over the years, the lyrics became more personal and started to reflect emotions, feelings, world and life perceptions of the group members. Traditionally, most of the songs cover the next themes: sci-fi, space, evolution, H+, future, religious beliefs, philosophy alongside with self-investigation, S&M, suffering & redemption, theosophy, meaning of life, violence, art & destruction and the theory of multiple choice. It makes an unusual mix, which expresses an independent life view with minor decadence connotation. The texts are written both in English and Russian.
References
- ↑ darkside.ru. "Interview: Oblivon Machine - Жизненно необходимое хобби". (in Russian)
- ↑ spirit-of-metal.com. "Review: Oblivon Machine - Unnatural & Wrong". (in French)
- ↑ spirit-of-metal.com. "Review: Oblivion Machine - Zero-Gravity". (in French)
- ↑ inrock.ru. "Report: Metal Crowd Festival: Холод, крики, миллионы". (in Russian)
- ↑ metalscript.net. "Report: Фоторепортаж с фестиваля Metal Crowd 2013. День 1". (in Russian)
- ↑ spirit-of-metal.com. "Review: Oblivion Machine - Oblivion Machine". (in French)
- ↑ headbanger.ru. "Interview: Oblivion Machine - Лекарство от забвения". (in Russian)
- ↑ vs-webzine.com. "Interview: Alex - OBLIVION MACHINE par XAVIER". (in French)
- ↑ dark-city.ru. "Interview: Oblivion Machine - Интервью журналу Dark City". (in Russian)
- ↑ sasema.jugem.jp. "Complete review: その他の音楽 OBLIVION MACHINE". (in Japanese)
- ↑ globalmetalapocalypse.weebly.com. "Complete review: Global Metal Apocalypse vol. 104".
Links
- http://www.oblivionmachine.com/ Official website
- http://www.lastfm.ru/music/Oblivion+Machine Official Last.fm page
- http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Oblivion_Machine Oblivion Machine at Encyclopaedia Metallum heavy library
- http://www.drugmetal.ru/blog/oblivion_machine/ Blog at Drugmetal — heavy music social portal
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