Machinemade God - The Infinity Complex

*=Staff's pick	Teeth Vs. Curb Losses To Lessons Bleeding From Within Downpour Of Emptiness Friendster Is Sooo 2 Months Ago Kiss Me Now Kill Me Later* Butterfly Coma Your Own Fault Forever Gone Injected Smiles Angel Wings Fuck Your Dead Heart Snow White

Genre	Melodic Death Metal	Flow Velten	Vocals
Tracks	13	Holger Kiparski	Guitar
Runningtime	43 Min.	Sky Hoff	Guitar
Label	Metal Blade	Sven Luppus	Bass
Release	13 Jan. 2006	Max Kotzmann	Drums
Country	Germany	-	Keyboards
Similar artists	Arch Enemy, In Flames

What's your opinion about good growling? Is it enough just to scream with a deep voice and that way sound angry and evil? Or is it something more to it? Is growling an art that craves more than a sore throat? I believe in the latter. I want growling not just to be noise; I want some kind of variation, tone and sensitivity for melodies. Flow Velten fails to deliver this. It could work anyway, for a couple of songs, but in the long run - through a whole album - a monotone screaming voice will be just painful to listen to.

Musically Machinemade God adds very little of originality or excitement. There are some good riffs, but you've heard them all before. These German fellows should have placed far more time on the songwriting process to make this interesting. As with the growling, some might think that hard music is great in itself. Personally I think good songs are even more important in the harder scene. Where are the memorable melodies, choruses or arrangements? Therefore, staffs pick… well for the first time I can't think of one single favorite to recommend. So I rolled a dice, and the result became that the asterisk goes to Kiss Me Now Kill Me Later. To sum up: it is brutal, it is hard, it is metal. Some would be happy with those prerequisites only. I am not.