Album Notes

THIS BROKEN MACHINE born from chaos in 2005 and start composing an intricate and dark kind of alternative metal.

This Broken Machine is a band relied upon the idiosyncrasies of a group of young guys from italy, their precarious balance between interests, tastes and priorities is the incentive for an ongoing evolution. The band members finally get a personal sound that treasures the keys of primordial grunge but also keeps up with alternative metal evolutions: energetic and syncopated rhythms, thick and dissonant guitars, screaming and melodic vocals, dark and oppressing tones melt in articulated songs, drowned in a coherent and meaningful concept. The resulting sound has as main influences band like Isis, Mastodon, Tool and Deftones: extremely low bass, powerful and sharp guitars, complex drums. The band gathers around a group of friends and since the beginning the attention has been given first to the human side of the music. From this first cornerstone, the band’s poetics was traced: telling meaningful stories, living the music as the most important thing, yelling out to the ghosts and expressing needs we all have. The first work, Songs About Chaos (EP, november 2007), exemplifies these themes through seven songs, dark and tormentated but full of energy and hope.