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Review Summary: The Blackening and its winding clamour gets truncated, redesigned and rerouted, resulting in a passable affair. Ah yes, that brutality, that fixation on progressive quintessence - what more could a Machine Head fan crave, everybody else was a convert to the progressive church. For whatever reason, though, 2007’s The Blackening was more polarising than its black and white shroud. Interestingly, that same polarisation is conceivably what made it one of their more memorable moments, whether or not it was liked, loved, or loathed. Now at 2011, and we have some sort of delusional insect model being dished up by frontman turned band-producer Robb Flynn and his band, who are clutching well onto the ideas they came up with 4 years ago, but still eager enough to amalgamate them in some different kind of structure. Flynn’s own production dexterities bare little bad influence here because he appears to be well suited to the role, apart from his unremitting usage of harmonised double tracked protrusions. What is actually disturbing, however, is how they initiate proceedings with contrived classical insinuations. Every band turned “philosophical” goes through this stage of unrealistic influence name calling – they even did it last time, only with a well known progressive rock band adored by our renowned cobalt hedgehog-turned-plumber. With, “I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)” the only thing they get right is correctly guessing what their guitars were tuned to, otherwise it’s the same Machine Head from years ago, just with a tedious choral introduction and less musical diction. Indeed, it’s easy to get lost within those fluid guitar passages, but you have to ask yourself in-between air-guitaring them if they’re actually any good, or even just masked copycats of yesteryear.
But it’s not all bad news for the Machine Head diehard (you’ve probably already discounted everything that’s just been alleged anyway). If anything, their new baby is thankfully shorter than its predecessor (unless you're fraught enough to get the inflated special edition), and at times, clearly more reassuring, like with the multilayered midsection trio of “Locust”, “This is the End” and “Darkness Within”. Even though it begins and ends quite terribly, it still manages to draw you in when you’d least expect from a groove metal mainstay. There’s enough fair-to-decent substance stringing the moments of composure and cleverness together, which is all that they could be asked for in this case.
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...what?
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lol
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Album is good, but not great. Review, if it was actually written properly and was subjective and reasonable in its points would have actually been a fair rating
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
lolwhut.
Album is awesome. Sorry you don't like Machine Head, perhaps you shouldn't've bothered reviewing.
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3 negs probably coming from people who can't read or are lame fanboys like the one above
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
People are neg happy lately. My Mastodon review got 3 of them, the most Ive ever gotten, and while its not the greatest review ever no one with a brain can say it is poorly written. People are dumb.
Pos.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Going to listen to this later. Hopefully it will rule.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Actually this is my first Machine Head album.
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no wonder
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Burn My Eyes and Ashes of Empires destroy this but its solid.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
What are you, ten?
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Not really a fanboy if I've only got the one album. I think it's great tbh. Not the sort of music I traditionally listen to (much prefer traditional groove like Sepultura, or other bands like Soulfly, Rise to Remain, Skindred etc.). I'm just open minded.
| | | Album Rating: 2.5
Oh god what happened - I must have submitted just when all the loonies were out.
lol
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Well clearly we just have differing tastes. You like djent, I don't. I like groove metal, clearly you don't. I'm not being so elitist about it though.
| | | Album Rating: 3.5
Again, what are you? Ten?
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
I'm 18. If you're so concerned about attacking people who disagree with you, I'm gonna have to start questioning your age.
| | | Album Rating: 2.5
Ok, here's the thing dude: "Sorry you don't like Machine Head, perhaps you shouldn't've bothered reviewing." Clearly state to the contrary, and my liking for 'djent' sheds little for how I approached this album.
I'm more shocked no one has picked up on the name drop late in the first paragraph.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Probably as the first paragraph's pretty long. Might wanna space it out a little to make it more readable.
Also, "ask you have to yourself". Surely you mean "you have to ask yourself"? Or are you trying to be Yoda? Genuine question.
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Thanks for the pick up, but you don't get it, so I'll move on.
| | | Album Rating: 4.0
Main reason I'd neg (I don't really bother voting on whether a review is well written or not) is due
to stuff like that error and the fact it's too cramped. Seeing as the whole thing is about if it's
WELL WRITTEN, regardless of reviewer's verdict. But it isn't really, sorry.
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