The Perfect Machine

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The Perfect Machine
Covervisiondivinetheperfectmachine.jpg
Studio album by
Released2005
Genre Progressive metal, power metal
Length52:16
Label Scarlet Records
Producer Timo Tolkki
Vision Divine chronology
Stream of Consciousness
(2004)
The Perfect Machine
(2005)
The 25th Hour
(2007)

The Perfect Machine is a 2005 album by Vision Divine. It is a concept album dealing with a scientist who is able to put an end to death and disease for all mankind, and thus make the human race immortal. The story considers the social and religious aspects of what such a discovery could bring.

Track listing

All music written by Carlo Andrea Magnani (Olaf Thorsen), Oleg Smirnoff and Michele Luppi. All lyrics by Thorsen. [1]

  1. The Perfect Machine (7:58)
  2. 1st Day Of A Never-ending Day (6:13)
  3. The Ancestors' Blood (5:53)
  4. Land Of Fear (4:25)
  5. God Is Dead (5:21)
  6. Rising Sun (5:23)
  7. Here In 6048 (6:32)
  8. The River (4:29)
  9. Now That You've Gone (5:59)
  10. The Needle Lies (Japan only, Queensrÿche cover)

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