Overworld (Overworld - Machinae Supremacy)

Member Name: Frankingsteins

Product:	Overworld - Machinae Supremacy
Date:	29/12/08 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Some nostalgic bleeping effects.

Disadvantages: Not as unique as the band likes to think.

Hello dooyoo, I'm back - thanks to a combination of an impending 2009 trip to Australia that severely needs funding and a job in which I can secretly do this rubbish without anyone noticing, I'm here again to educate you in far more detail than is strictly necessary on a load of music that no one in their right mind would have considered listening to before or after reading a brief and confusing, though undoubtedly Very Useful review.

Sweden's Machinae Supremacy kick off the ominous 'M' pile of my collection thanks to that cheeky extraneous vowel pipping Machine Head to the post, and despite the band's aspirations towards genre-innovating 'SID metal,' referencing the 8-bit SID sound chip that lends nostalgically awful synthesiser effects to most songs, this is essentially another run-of-the-mill cheery power metal album full of decent, albeit generic rock riffs and melodic choruses, and a bizarre Britney Spears cover.

The SID chip itself only plays a small supplementary role and in no way defines the songs itself, though its greater presence in songs such as 'Violator' works well in manner that will doubtless provide nostalgia for fans of early video games (it personally reminds me fondly of Codemasters' 'Dizzy' series). The cover of Britney's 'Gimme More' is predictably awful as metal covers of Britney always are, and is disappointingly taken a little too seriously to be amusing as was presumably intended, but the band's own material is enjoyable enough in a repetitive, melodic metal way.

You won't be hearing big things about this band, but if you're a fan of the SID chip, you'll be glad to discover there are things like this to cater for your weird tastes.

Summary: Machinae Supremacy's fourth album (2008).