Machines Dream released their self-titled debut in 2012, followed in 2014 with the sophomore album Immunity and digital EP 100 Afternoons.

Their first album, self-titled Machines Dream, was recorded by Craig West at his home studio, Bear Dog Digital, beginning in late 2010 and was released on March 15, 2012.

For example, London By Night was written after West suffering a panic attack while visiting London, England; Unarmed At Sea is about vulnerability and features image-heavy lyrics written by singer/songwriter and associate of the band Chris Belsito; and Toronto Skyline is about feelings of loneliness being amplified by living in or visiting a large city.

Guitarist Keith Conway's melodic blues lead style worked well with the Pink Floyd influenced Toronto Skyline and Colder Rain.

Brian Holmes, who had previously played with metal band Gates Of Winter brought symphonic elements to the sound of the album.

Immunity features saxophone performed by guest musician Josh Norling and, as with the first album, some lyrics were contributed by songwriter Chris Belsito.

The band felt these songs did not fit either album and they had been left off for that reason, however the EP has generated some fan favourites including the upbeat Jupiter and the ballad Trading Stars For Solitude.

Also in October, Coleman and Rendell were offered, and accepted, full-time membership in the band, officially making the group a quintet for the first time since 2009.

The now five piece began rehearsing heavily following the release of Immunity, and the chemistry between the members led to the group's most stable line-up as well as its most characteristic voice to date.

He enjoyed the album and began recommending the group to several progressive rock radio shows, including the Prog Mill hosted by Shaun Geraghty.

Rogers began promoting the music to as many people as possible using both traditional marketing methods as well as working with new social media tools and reaching out to established progressive artists and musicians.

Josh Norling was brought in to play saxophone along with the band adding jazz elements to their sound, and the sessions featured an improvisational quality.

Thematically, Black Science explores instances in the twentieth century that have led to/or are parallels for contemporary political, social and economic problems.

Black Science was produced and mixed by Craig West, mastered by Will Geraldo and features visual artwork from Monique Holmes.

It was recorded on Sunday July 9, 2017, with live engineering by Dustin Goodall, and was subsequently mixed by Craig West and mastered by Will Geraldo.

Along with the core five-piece band, several tracks on this recording feature Jennifer Gauvreau on backing vocals, who had previously contributed backups to the song Trading Stars For Solitude from the Voices For Hospices CD and Heavy Water from Black Science.

With the band's 10th anniversary approaching in December 2018, it was decided that the first two albums, now both out of print, should be remastered and re-released as a deluxe double CD set through Progressive Gears.

Once work began on the project, Craig West insisted that Immunity in particular should be at least partly re-recorded and entirely remixed in order to correct errors in quality that he claimed marred the original album.

The re-recorded Immunity title suite (no longer split into two parts), A Poor Turn For The Soul, Jupiter, A Stone's Throw (from the 100 Afternoons digital EP) and Trading Stars For Solitude (which had appeared on the Voices For Hospices charity CD) were combined with original album tracks Battersea Transcendental, My Ocean Is Electric and Broken Door to create an entirely new version of the Immunity album.

The remaining members decided to not do or say anything immediately, preferring to focus on writing to determine if they wanted to keep working together as Machines Dream or move on to other projects.

"Revisionist History would have been a pretty good place to stop" stated West, "We had done what we had set out to do, which was to make the kind of music we loved, and ensure that everything we had done was properly mixed, mastered and put out there in the world.

In 2020, West read a post on Facebook in a local songwriters group from drummer Phil Greco asking if anyone was looking for drum tracks during the pandemic.

On June 21, 2021, Machines Dream announced their return with a new six-piece version of the band that would feature West, Holmes, Coleman, Rendell, Conway and Greco.

Individually, Craig West cites Pink Floyd, Marillion, Porcupine Tree and Rush as key influences on his work with Machines Dream, along with The Who's Quadrophenia album, and the DIY ethos of Hüsker Dü; Rob Coleman's cites Yngwie Malmsteen, Greg Howe, and Pat Metheny; Jake Rendell has a Bachelor's Degree in Music, specifically voice and his influences include the classical and vocal music he studied in school as well as 90's alternative rock, Motown and traditional blues; Ken cites Big Big Train and Porcupine Tree as contemporary influences along with Pearl Jam, Electric Light Orchestra, Soundgarden, Led Zeppelin, The Who and Radiohead; Brian started as a classical musician before working in heavy metal and progressive rock and cites Devin Townsend, Anathema, Bach and Behemoth amongst his many influences.

They fall into the more accessible and song-oriented stream of progressive rock such as Pink Floyd, Genesis, Marillion, Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree and Riverside as opposed to more experimental or technical groups including King Crimson, Van Der Graff Generator, Dream Theater and Yes.

Technique is subservient to songwriting, and even during more adventurous instrumental passages, the groups' two primary soloists, Holmes and Coleman, favour melody over virtuosity.