Metal Reviews

Band News - MACHINE HEAD Name New Album

Published on Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:22 am
Source: Blabbermouth

After Supercharger I thought this band had lost it. The Burning Red was different, but I loved the songs. Supercharger was like 60/40 bad/good, and that's probably being generous.

When they said Through The Ashes Of Empires would be a return to their roots I laughed. Remember Metallica said the same of St. Coffee Can. You can never trust band's opinion on their own album. However, Machine Head were totally fucking right! Empires was indeed a return to their roots, and it fucking kicked ass!!

I cannot wait for this album. If it picks up where Empires left off then this will be one killer album!

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Al in Ken agreement shocker

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn has posted the following message on the band's official web site:

"We are loading in today [Monday, August 21] to start on our new album!!! WOO - FUCKING - HOO!!! I can't remember being this excited about recording, well... EVER. Seriously, we're ready to fucking blow shit up! Spent Friday and Saturday with Dave [McClain, drums] down at the jam spot fine-tuning the songs, doing pre-production, and Saturday was really productive. Dave is fucking KILLING IT on the new shit; this will certainly be his finest hour to date. I think we both walked away (as dorky as it sounds) giddy with excitement... we're SO friggin' stoked with how cool the new stuff is turning out!

"We have officially narrowed down our song selection to eight songs. What, only eight?! That's right fuckers, eight songs! We have a 10-minute opening track that's practically four songs in one, with stop-on-a-dime changes and a rollercoaster ride of molten riffage! In fact, we have three 10-minute long tracks, so even with only eight songs, the record is damn near an hour long. It feels right though. It was a tough call; we wrote 26 songs in total, but these eight are the very best songs of the bunch. The other 18... though heavy, or catchy, or what-have-you... man... they just lacked that special something, or they didn't end with enough of that 'WOW!' factor, so we were brutally honest with ourselves, exercised a little self-restraint, and we think you will be incredibly impressed with the results."

MACHINE HEAD has set "The Blackening" as the title of its sixth studio album, tentatively due in early 2007 via Roadrunner Records. The group is recording the new CD at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, with Flynn returning to the producer's chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime MACHINE HEAD collaborator Colin Richardson (CANNIBAL CORPSE, TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) will also be returning to mix the record alongside Flynn this October in London. Tentative songtitles for "The Blackening" include "Clenching the Fists of Dissent", "Aesthetics of Hate", "Halo", "The Beautiful Mourning", "Now I Lay Thee Down", "Slanderous Love", "Wolves" and "A Farewell to Arms". The band has also tapped longtime MACHINE HEAD artist Paul Brown (MARILYN MANSON) to begin working on album art in the coming weeks.

Fuck yeah fuckers this fuckin' album is gonna fuckin' rock your fuckin' shit! Woo! Yeah! Fuck! Fuckin' A! Machine Fuckin' Head!

What a queef. He should have his tongue cut out for grossly overusing the word fuck. I'd rather beat myself in the head for 10 minutes than listen to a 10 minute riffless Machine Head snoozefest.

Welcome back.

Well, sorry. The dude is obviuosly eithier extremely uneducated, or he's just plain pandering to the kidz by using the word fuck every other word. Sure, I cuss, but those aren't the only adjectives in my vocabulary. Do him a favor and send the guy a thesaurus.

I'm also sorry I don't share your opinion on this band, but I don't find them to be any good, personally. I don't find it to be remotely Metal eithier. You can dislike me all you want, but I am going to continue expressing my opinions on bands wether it's positive or negative. That's the whole point of these things.

As for Machine Head not being metal, that's just ridiculous. What are they if they're not metal? Aside from The Burning Red and a good portion of Supercharger, they're 85% post-thrash, 15% groove metal! And who cares how Robb Flynn talks? That has nothing to do with music.

And I have no issues with you. Never have.

I may have come off a bit harsh there. If I did, I apologize.

I'm not going to sit here and debate the bands MetalNESS(haha), for it would be a stalemate anyways. But, I've never been convinced of this whole "Post-Thrash" stuff. Thrash is a whole sound in and of itself. Just because a band like this or Shadows Fall, or even post Cowboys Pantera throw in a few Thrash-like runs here and there, it doesn't make it Thrash. I've never heard a true Thrash riff in Machine Head's music, just stuff that resembles one from time to time.