Scott Ian Reviews Machine Head 2007-04-22 by Dave de Sylvia EMERITUS | 15 Comments | Famous baldy and Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian reviewed Machine Head's new record The Blackening in a recent edition of France's hard rock/heavy metal magazine Hard N' Heavy.
Here's those, um, enthusiastic thoughts in full: " This should’ve been the soundtrack to the movie 300!
"The Blackening is a great metal record. From the opening riffs of Clenching The Fists of Dissent you know you’re in for brutality. This song takes you on an epic journey all leading up to the monstrous riff that happens at the 8:41 mark. HOLY FUCK!!! CLENCHING THE FISTS OF DISSENT!!!!! The next track, Beautiful Mourning shows how Machine Head can so perfectly balance modern metal with old school thrash. Track 3, Aesthetics Of Hate is a riff-o-rama showing off Rob Flynn and Phil Demmel’s killer guitar work. Next up, Now I Lay Thee Down is like the Deftones on steroids. Track 5, Slanderous starts with a pick slide. I fucking love pick slides and they’re all over this record. More crushing guitars in the middle breakdown take this song straight to hell.
"The lead trade-off has hints of Hammett. Rob screams THIS IS A CALL TO ARMS WILL YOU STAND BESIDE ME at the beginning of the next song Halo. I can only imagine the audience response. This song is classic Machine Head but with so much more maturity and melody in the chorus. Great hook. The next two, Wolves and A Farewell To Arms, clocking in at 9:01 and 10:12 respectively are so chock full of riffs, breakdowns, hooks, leads, harmonies and pick slides you’ll need multiple listens to take it all in. The songs are epics and in a lesser bands hands that could be a terrible thing.
"It’s extremely hard to maintain a cohesiveness and focus after five minutes. It’s also hard to keep the listeners interest after five minutes. I’ve been listening to the record all the way through over and over again and the strength of the song writing and riffs maintains a depth and intensity that never lulls. The hooks are deep. Like a great book or movie, this record takes you out of your life for an hour to a place of pure unadulterated listening pleasure.
"I love the record. Yay metal!!!"
Scott
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Yay metal!!!
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Um, I guess I should get it, huh?
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FTW
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That review would get torn to shreds here.
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this is way better review than the 1 here, you suck mike you don't know anything about metalThis Message Edited On 04.22.07
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Epic.
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0 of 3 thought this review was tr00 gr1m br00tal metal enough.
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I think Scott sould just leave reviewing and stick with guitar!
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0 of 4 thought this review was worth his time
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Even though I thought this album was pretty damn good, Mikesn review pointed a fact out perfectly. One of the most hyped pieces of music in recent memory. Seriously, Machine Head is becoming a little egotistical when it comes to their own music. If I were a band, I would take critical reviews as seriously as if I were to say 'I think John Mayer is the greatest guitar player of all time'!
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I think he speaks the truth TBF
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HOLY FUCK!!! CLENCHING THE FISTS OF DISSENT!!!!!
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thank christ he signed off with , i love this record ...upto that point i couldn't tell !
yay metal !!
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1 of 5 thought this review was well written
Giving him some credit, it was his first review. He has potential.This Message Edited On 04.24.07
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This was horrible, even by my standards...
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