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Machine Head are an American metal band founded by Robb Flynn in 1992 after his split from Vio-Lence. The original line-up consisted of Robb Flynn, Logan Mader, Adam Duce and Chris Kontos. Their debut album Burn My Eyes released in 1994 created a new metal sound that proved that while metal can be bone-shatteringly heavy, it need not be fast. Heralded as one of the greatest underground metal releases ever and featuring iconic songs such as Davidian, Old and Blood for Blood which remain crowd favourites to this day. After the release the band toured heavily supporting acts such as Slayer and Me ...read more
Machine Head are an American metal band founded by Robb Flynn in 1992 after his split from Vio-Lence. The original line-up consisted of Robb Flynn, Logan Mader, Adam Duce and Chris Kontos. Their debut album Burn My Eyes released in 1994 created a new metal sound that proved that while metal can be bone-shatteringly heavy, it need not be fast. Heralded as one of the greatest underground metal releases ever and featuring iconic songs such as Davidian, Old and Blood for Blood which remain crowd favourites to this day. After the release the band toured heavily supporting acts such as Slayer and Metallica, releasing a follow up three years later, The More Things Change of 1997.
Machine Head used their experience from touring in the construction of the new album with songs such as Take My Scars, Struck a Nerve and Violate being written while on tour. Several band line-up changes occurred around this time with Chris Kontos being fired and replaced by Dave McClain of Sacred Reich; Logan Mader left the band shortly after the new albums release and was replaced by Ahrue Luster (whom many fans await an apology from). The More Things Change built upon the debut albums sound but captured a darker mood and remains an impressive icon.
Ahrue Luster persuaded the band to take a different direction though and The Burning Red released in 1999 is still undeniably the bands weakest effort to date, though the times were right and it sold as many copies in three years as Burn My Eyes did in eight. The Machine Head sound had been diluted and while front man Robb Flynn purged his scars in the lyrical content not a single song on the whole album had any resemblance to what true fans new as being Machine Head.
Ahrue Luster's influence remained and Supercharger followed in 2001. Songs such as Bulldozer, Nausea and Deafening Silence encompassed Machine Head's sound new and old. While it being a stronger and more consistent effort that The Burning Red, the marginalization of the heavy Burn My Eyes sound meant the new album essentially became a diluted offspring of the surrogate The Burning Red fathered by a single track from The More Things Change...which I presume to be Colours by Ice-T. Consequently Roadrunner found the band they had signed as Machine Head had been drugged and replaced with imposters by an imposter named Ahrue Luster and fired the lot of them, awaiting the return of the real members.
And return they did with Through the Ashes of Empires in 2003, released through their European label. Elements of nu-metal remained in songs written while the band was unsigned but the addition of Phil Demmel, also of Vio-Lence fame and who obviously hadn’t forgotten how to make metal, saved the band. Tracks such as Imperium and Seasons Wither reestablished the band as a force to be reckoned with. The release of the DVD Elegies reinforced the bands comeback, musically and talent wise, with the performance of Robb Flynn being markedly better than on their live album Hellalive (released after Supercharger). The band toured heavily in support of their new masterpiece, which brought with it new hope and energy.
All of which was channeled into 2007's The Blackening. The Blackening brought the band to a whole new level, reaching heights previously only allotted to albums such as Master of Puppets and Appetite for Destruction. The performances in songs such as Halo, Beautiful Mourning and Clenching the Fists of Dissent established the band as the leading talent of the New Wave of American Heavy Metal. With tour dates for the new album stretching to 2011, a follow up is long in the making and the only question remains after such a comeback, can Machine Head top this release? « hide |
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