Redeemer (Machinae Supremacy album)

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Redeemer
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Studio album by
Released28 March 2006
Recorded2005
Genre Power metal, industrial metal, chiptune
Length65:46
Label Hubnester/Spinefarm
Machinae Supremacy chronology
Deus Ex Machinae
(2004)
Redeemer
(2006)
Overworld
(2008)
Underground edition
Machinae Supremacy - Redeemer (underground edition).jpg
Underground Edition cover

Redeemer is the second studio album by Swedish band Machinae Supremacy, released on 28 March 2006. Originally planned for release by Music by Design Records in 2005, it was delayed when the label ceased to exist.

Contents

On 6 February 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"."Rise" is actually "Lava Bubble Trouble" from the Jets'n'Guns soundtrack, reworked into a full song. The band would later repeat this by converting "Flight of the Toyota" (from the same soundtrack) into the album-track "SID Icarus" within their next album.

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 28 March 2006. [1]

  1. "Elite" – 4:24
  2. "Rise" – 5:32
  3. "Fury" – 5:06
  4. "Ronin" – 4:17
  5. "Kaori Stomp" – 4:17
  6. "Hate" – 4:12
  7. "I Know the Reaper" – 4:35
  8. "Seventeen" – 3:45
  9. "The Cavern of Lost Time" – 0:34
  10. "Rogue World Asylum" – 4:13
  11. "Through the Looking Glass" – 5:10
  12. "Oki Kuma's Adventure" – 5:12 (Japanese for to Big Bear's [Adventure] [2] )
  13. "Reanimator (March of the Undead III)" – 5:00
  14. "Prelude to Empire" – 1:37
  15. "Empire" – 6:51

Retail edition

The major label edition of the album is trimmed and remixed. It was released on 8 November 2006 by Spinefarm Records. [3] This version included an additional track, Ghost (Beneath the Surface), which was originally released as a site release.

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

Reception

Professional ratings
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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." Some 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 using the term "power-pop" to describe the sound.

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

Personnel

Additional personnel

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References

  1. Redeemer (Underground), archived from the original on 28 December 2006, retrieved 29 April 2023
  2. "Re: teddy bear that saves the world?". Oki Kuma translation. Retrieved 6 November 2006.
  3. "Machinae Supremacy on Spinefarm". Details of the album. Retrieved 6 November 2006.

"Redeemer REVIEWS". Collection of quotes from reviews. Retrieved 9 November 2007.[ dead link ]