GIZMACHI - THE IMBUING published November 2005, Zero Magazine

First of all, it shouldn't be a disclaimer to listeners that The Imbuing was produced by M. Shaun Crahan, the #6 member of Slipknot who is known as Clown. If you are at all familiar with Slipknot, it is comically obvious. By the fourth track, you will already hear guitar wines and drum rolls which are identical to ones found on Slipknot's self-titled. But hey, at least they chose the best of all Slipknot albums to emulate.

So this is strike one. Strike two, this guy's scream at times feels more like Bobcat Goldwaith than any singer I've heard. But I don't know what's more annoying, the fact that it happens at all or the fact that it doesn't happen all the time. The rest of the time, Sean Kane can wail decently enough. And this is the essence of Gizmachi. One minute, you are tired of being reminded of the nu-metal everyone loved in highschool, the next you are drooling over fluttering solos, cracked-out structure and, what's this, vocal harmonies! The Imbuing is rooted on the borderline between Ozzfest, commercial metal easily sold out at your local Hot Topic and evolutionary, virtuoso, intelligent metal. Gizmachi could end up on either side of that line but if we lose them to the high school kids, it would be a waste.