“The first thing you notice is the rhythm section: large, lumbering drums and hydraulic bass flexes on the nine-minute "First Wave Intact", the lead-off track on The Secret Machines' awkwardly titled debut album, *Now Here Is Nowhere*. The rhythms are military-precise, locked-in and steady, but they're less heavy metal than *Heavy Metal*: The band sounds as though they're scoring an intergalactic s”
