Artist: This Ending Album: Inside the Machine
Label: Metal Blade Records Jan 23, 2007
Inside the Machine is an instant classic in the Gottenburg technical death metal scene from the emerging band This Ending. It’s a perfect album for a horror film with a serial killer who you are rooting for to succeed in causing chaos and destruction in an unjust yet placated society. With careful precision, the dual guitars, drums, bass, and vocals bring about an apt description of the Armageddon and the entities involved. With a minimum of effects and studio tricks, this album pays tribute to the traditional instruments of heavy metal with the tenacity and brutal training of an experienced assassin.
The title track Inside the Machine is something you should listen to when running for your life across a wasteland from a host of bloodthirsty raiders riding massive motorcycles studded with guns and the decapitated heads of previous victims. Or it could be the theme song for the race of Terminators in the Terminator films, but only if robots could gather some emotion from their savage execution of humanity. The album concludes with the Artist’s self-titled track in absolute silence, and I cant count the number of times I’ve expected the next track to start only to find the epic silence of space staring at me from the speakers.
Musically, it is a death metal album: harmony and melody from the guitar, drums providing machine like rhythm reminiscent of a clock counting down to the apocalypse. Vocals are relatively simple, but fucking brutal, and bass fills in the space between the two contrasting guitars and provide rhythm to complement the drums. Of course, there is a lot more involved, but to summarize, the choruses are very catchy and have some excellent riffage and epic drum parts, the speed of the album gets your blood pumping, and it ends on a dark and gloriously depressing note that makes you realize how futile trying to oppose mankind’s doom is. At least those are my initial thoughts. It’s a great album and I expect a lot more great material from this band. Now, if only the singer would pick up a guitar, so I don’t feel like I could take his place and provide better vocals…
Track Listing:
1. Seed of Destruction
2. Inside The Machine
3. Pitch Black
4. Plague Angel
5. Lidless Eye
6. Armageddon
7. Nailed Down
8. Let the World Burn
9. Into Pain
10. This Ending
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