Picture a Devin Townsend influenced Jack the Pumpkin King belting out some tunes backed with a band of gothic metal gents and what do you get? MECHANICAL POET. Residing in a place once known as the Soviet Union (Russia) the trio welcomes it’s second debut carving a musical score with orchestral trances and sleek rhythms in Woodland Prattlers. Musical substance diversity is shared with scores done by keyboarding with original members Lex Plotnikoff (guitar, bass, keyboards) and Tom Tokmakoff (drums, bass, keyboards) for which possess vast instrumental capabilities for which you can hear with the bands current release.

Album is done in a movie soundtrack theme combining dark elements with sweet harmonies crashing into surface with song Strayed Moppet, done in a metal varied influence one can beg to differ that Jack the Pumpkin King is making his grand entrance. Grandeur vocalist Max Samosvat brings into life the essence for which this band has sought hard to seek, since the group auditioned more than 130 singers for this position. And indeed a job well sought and filled with the right individual component. Woodland Prattlers having a good backbone of recorded production and overall musical side this album shatters other bands of this type. Doubt if any bands of this caliber are out there, but nonetheless MECHANICAL POET in itself are true musical art form amazement. Much can be said about this tour de force of music but feel this current score of metal filled orchestral effort MECHANICAL POET touches bases unlike any band heard thus far.