Biomech

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Ocean Machine : Biomech

Studio album by Devin Townsend
Released	1997
Recorded	1996
Genre	Metal
Length	73:52
Label	Hevy Devy Records
Producer(s)	Devin Townsend
All Music Guide (3/5) link
Devin Townsend chronology
	Ocean Machine : Biomech (1997)	Infinity (1998)

Biomech is the first and only album by Ocean Machine, a band started by Devin Townsend. It is now generally considered to belong to the body of Devin's work known as Devin Townsend. As such it is now released as a Devin Townsend solo work with the title 'Ocean Machine : Biomech'. It had respectable sales in Japan the week of release. 'Biomech' was released in Japan on July 21st and sold 12,000 copies that first week and has maintained solid sales since. [1]

The initial line-up for the band was Devin, John "Squid" Harder, Marty Chapman and SYL guitarist Jed Simon.[2] Later it was re-recorded due to Devin becoming dissatisfied with the original version. [3]

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Devin Townsend

"Seventh Wave" – 6:50
- Begins with a quotation from Canto CXXIII of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "In Memoriam A.H.H.":
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

There where the long street roars, hath been

The stillness of the central sea.

The hills are shadows, and they flow

From form to form, and nothing stands;

...

Like clouds they shape themselves and go.
"Life" – 4:31
"Night" – 4:45
"Hide Nowhere" – 5:00
"Sister" – 2:48
"3 A.M." – 1:56
"Voices in the Fan" – 4:39
"Greetings" – 2:53
"Regulator" – 5:06
"Funeral" – 8:06
"Bastard" – 10:17
1. "Not One of the Better Days"
2. "The Girl From Blue City"
"Death of Music" – 12:15
"Thing Beyond Things" – 4:47