Redeemer (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Redeemer
Type = Album
Artist = Machinae Supremacy


Released = March 18, 2006
Recorded = 2004
Genre = SID Metal/Metal
Length = 65:46
Label = Hubnester Industries/Spinefarm Records
Reviews =
* HardcoreSounds Rating|3.5|5 [http://www.hardcoresounds.net/modules.php?name=Band_List&file=cdviewer&func=3316 link]
* Kerrang! Rating|4|5
* Metal Hammer UK rating-10|8
Last album = "Jets'n'Guns Soundtrack"
(2004)
This album = "Redeemer"
(2006)
Next album = "Overworld"
(2008)
Misc =Extra album cover
Upper caption = Underground edition
Background = lightsteelblue


[Lower caption = Retail cover] ||

"Redeemer" is the second studio album of the SID Metal band Machinae Supremacy, released March 18, 2006. Originally planned for release by Music By Design Records Ltd. in 2005, it was delayed when MBD Records ceased to exist. On February 6 2006, to celebrate the release of the new website, two new tracks from the album were made available for download; "Rise" and "Through The Looking Glass".

Track listing

There are two versions of Redeemer, the "Underground Edition" (RUE) and the "retail" edition (RRE).

The album was recorded in Blind Dog Studios and Hubnester Industries, Luleå. All songs were written and performed by Machinae Supremacy.

Underground Edition

Released March 18, 2006.

#"Elite" – 4:24
#"Rise" – 5:32
#"Fury" – 5:06
#"Ronin" – 4:17
#"Kaori Stomp" – 4:17
#"Hate" – 4:12
#"I Know the Reaper" – 4:35
#"Seventeen" – 3:45
#"The Cavern of Lost Time" – 0:34
#"Rogue World Asylum" – 4:13
#"Through the Looking Glass" – 5:10
#"Oki Kuma's Adventure" – 5:12 (Japanese for to Big Bear's [Adventure] cite web | title=Re: teddy bear that saves the world? | work=Oki Kuma translation | url=http://forum.machinaesupremacy.com/index.php/topic,3356.msg118997.html#msg118997 | accessdate=November 6 | accessyear=2006] )
#"Reanimator (March of the Undead III)" – 5:00
#"Prelude to Empire" – 1:37
#"Empire" – 6:51

Retail edition

The album is remixed and was released on November 8, 2006 by Spinefarm Records.cite web | title=Machinae Supremacy on Spinefarm | work=Details of the album | url=http://www.spinefarm.fi/showband.php?id=174 | accessdate=November 6 | accessyear=2006] This version included an additional track "Ghost (Beneath the Surface)", which was originally released as a site release.

#"Elite" – 4:23
#"Through the Looking Glass" – 5:07
#"Rogue World Asylum" – 4:10
#"Rise" – 5:30
#"I Know the Reaper" – 4:34
#"Hate" – 4:13
#"Ghost (Beneath the Surface)" – 5:11
#"Seventeen" – 3:42
#"Ronin" – 5:13
#"Oki Kuma's Adventure" – 5:23
#"Reanimator (March of the Undead III)" – 5:02

Reception

"Redeemer" received mostly positive reviews, Matthias Mineur saying "Unaware of the tight rules that govern more 'scene' oriented nations, [Machinae Supremacy] have invented something magnificent: power rock." Several reviews have described the sound as almost "pop" like, while still remaining heavy, Nick Russel suggesting the album is "Pop music for metalheads?" and John A. Hanson coining the term "power-pop" to describe the sound.

One criticism is Stjärnström's vocals, with one reviewer describing them as "Although admittedly one of the whinier vocalists I've heard in quite a while," but he then adds at it "manages to be epic all the same."

Personnel

*Robert Stjärnström - Vocals, guitar, art and design
*Jonas Rörling - Guitar, backing vocals
*Johan Palovaara - Bass (While Palovaara is credited, he did not record any bass for the album.)
*Andreas Gerdin - Keyboards, backing vocals
*Tomas Nilsén - Drums

Additional Personnel

*Fredrik Nordström - Mixing
*Patrik J - Mixing
*Thomas Eberger - Mastering
*Erica Öberg of Inja - Additional vocals
*Chicka Kowahira - Additional vocals
*Kahl Hellmer - Bass

Notes

External links

* [http://www.machinaesupremacy.com/albums-2.php Official album page]
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