Machina Omniporens is the second full length album by the Portuguese Death metal band Necro Algorithm. I don’t know very much about them. In fact, nothing really, and I can’t find very much online about them either. As far as I understand it could very well be kind of a solo project by Melkor aka José Marreiros who seems to be a very active multiinstrumentalist.
It’s an album that is on the technical side of things. There are blast beats and stuff like that but there are also more complex song structures and rhythm variation. The solos seem to be heavily dependent on the pentatonic blues scale. In a high octane and high tempo all the way through though.
Of course, I don’t catch the lyrics at all most of the time, but that’s the natural mode when it comes to this kind of extreme music for me. I don’t really use the words anyway, I just see vocals as another instrument. Besides, it is actually a bit more clear than many other Death Metal bands where it’s close to impossible to catch a single word.
Machina Omniporens is about 30 minutes long or a couple of minutes longer than that. I think that it might have been too much to extend it with more music. I, for one, would be exhausted after listening to more. The sound could’ve been a little “bigger” to be even better, it sounds a bit thin at times and if my presumptions about a one man band is correct it’s not far fetched that the album was also self produced.
Machina Omnipotens is quite ok, but it misses that little extra something that could have elevated it to something really special.
