Artist description Mechanical Poet is a modern metal band that mixes progressive metal riffs and song structures with classical orchestrations, ethnic music, gothic atmosphere and synthetic effects.

Music Style Orchestral Progressive Gothic Metal

Musical Influences Queen, Dream Theater, Angra, Blind Guardian, Devin Townsend, Sergei Rachmaninov, Dmitry Shostakovich, Claude Debussy, Mikhail Glinka, Peter Tchaikovsky, Modest Mussorgsky, Danny Elfman, Alan Silvestri

Similar Artists Savatage, Symphony X, Royal Hunt, Nightwish, Blind Guardian, Bal-Sagoth, Amorphis, Dream Theater, Conception, Therion, Rhapsody, Pain of Salvation, Evergrey, Angra, Shaman, Ocean Machine, Nightingale

Artist History The band was originally formed in 2000 by two students of "1st Russian Classical Music School": composer, conductor and classical guitarist Lex Carpenter and operatic singer Sebastian Trifonoff. Their old-time friend drummer and sound engineer Tommy Tokmakoff joined the band several month after. Mechanical Poet has recorded three demos: 'Vector-Man', 'The Curse' and 'Trace of the Dead Leaf' and started to work on a high-quality promotional CD 'Handmade Essence' in 2002. Unfortunately, in the middle of studio session the singer decided to leave the band. After more than hundred auditions the band found new singer Max Samosvat.

Group Members Max Samosvat(lead and background vocals); Lex Plotnikoff (guitars, bass, keyboards); Tom Tokmakoff (drums, bass, keyboards).

Albums Handmade Essence (Promo 2003)

Location Moscow, Moscow - Russia

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