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Last Active 11-01-12 7:59 pm
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| Machine Rated
This list isn't exactly what I'd call a definitive list because I haven't heard Unto the Locust enough times (hehe...). Anyway, the influential Oakland-based groove-thrash titans (and my #2 fav band) rated. | | 7 |  | Machine Head
Supercharger
I don't honestly think that anyone here is surprised. In fact, MH earns a Fallout Award for this album. Why? Boring, uninspiring, basic, repetitive. The only songs from it I listen to in a regular basis are "Crashing Around You" (the one with the banned video) and the title track. Passable. | | 6 |  | Machine Head
The Blackening
If #7 is expectable, I believe many people are shocked with #6. It's much beyond Supercharger, but it still suffers from a question: lack of identity. Some parts it sounds like a mix of Trivium and Opeth. Good, of course, (especially "Aesthetics of Hate", the retaliation against the eponymous article by William Grim) but they've done much better in the past. Can be switched with #5. | | 5 |  | Machine Head
The Burning Red
It earned the 2nd place in some "The Most Gay Metal Album Ever"-like crap by someone at Metal Archives but I personally think it's better than people usually say. OF COURSE the idea of Machine with hip-hop like crap is daft to say the very least. But most of the songs here are still much into heavy grooves. Check out "Nothing Left" and "Devil with the King's Card". Can be switched with #6. | | 4 |  | Machine Head
Unto the Locust
As I said before I have still a kinda provisory idea of this album, as I haven't listened to it many times yet. But it's great, does away with the unnecessary prog factor of The Blackening and replaces it with some good old-school technicality. "Pearls Before the Swine" is my favourite song out of it, by now. | | 3 |  | Machine Head
The More Things Change...
...the more they stay the same. Is it? Maybe it isn't. This album is excellent, brutal, inventive, but lacks some of the soul of Burn My Eyes. "Ten Ton Hammer" is a classic (just in case my profile pic couldn't say that), "Struck a Nerve" is insane, "Spine" does so, and "Blood of the Zodiac" gives the perfect sludge-ish end to a brutal yet accessible album. Can (and maybe should) be switched with #2. | | 2 |  | Machine Head
Through the Ashes of Empires
In 2003, Machine were no more the legend of the 90s. How could they return with the same strength of old days? Call Phil Demmel of Vio-lence and Technocracy to replace Ahrue Luster (who wrote the worst MH songs ever) and make the band brutal again. Okay, not so brutal. But still much old-school. "Imperium" is the perfect start to the album. "In the Presence of My Enemies", "Elegy" and "Days Turn Blue to Gray" help to complete it. Can (and maybe should) be switched with #3. | | 1 |  | Machine Head
Burn My Eyes
As for #7, I guess #1 is kinda obvious. Brutal, angry, relentless - the three words that best describe this absolute masterpiece. From "Davidian" to "Block" (not forgetting "Old", "1000 Lies", "None but My Own" and "Blood for Blood"), we've got 11 pissed off tracks of pure brutality, condimented with the social disorder and chaos that prevailed at the time. Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast. | |
TheArkitecht
10.09.11 | Whoa man, that's like... your opinion. | NWOAHM666
10.09.11 | Exactly. What else did you want it to be? | KILL
10.09.11 | OOOOOOOOLD MAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
DEEEEEEEEEEEAD HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND | NWOAHM666
10.09.11 | ^1994...corruption...racism...hate...the church has failed...jesus came down...and he cried
m/ | AnalAnnihilator
10.10.11 | 6, 4, 1, 2, 5, 7, 3 |
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