The Blackening - Machine Head

Despite their almost completely unbelievable downfall before they produced 'Through the Ashes of Empires', Machine Head have managed incredibly and have worked for over a year on this mind-blowingly technical album.

The incredible guitar work produced from no less than the legendary Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel produces the most amazing atmosphere that any pure metal head can but pray for.
Robb’s incredible voice brings a totally new and different curve to the sound that Machine Head seem to be so easily capable to produce, which makes them so unique in todays fast paced and ever changing music society today.

The mood is constantly swinging from hard, fast thrash techniques, to sweet, melodic vocals and tunes which again, gives an entire twist to the music that from the very beginning of the album right the way to the very end of the 56 minutes that takes the listener on a journey through the incredible world of metal and one of its finer bands.

On the special edition you receive an extra track on the CD, this track is called Battery, sound familiar? Well, it should do, as this is no less than the opening track on Metallica’s breakthrough album, ‘Master of Puppets’. A while ago, when KERRANG released a copy of Master of Puppets free in one of their issues, however they used different bands to re-do each song on the original album, Trivium where lucky enough to do Master of Puppets as their song to re-master,. And it's as I have always said, you can never beat the original, and I was right, it was played in completely the wrong tuning and as hard as Matt Heafy tried, he just couldn’t match up to the legendary James Hetfield.

Unfortunately, it is the same for ‘Battery’ on Machine Head's latest album, it's close, but just nowhere near as good as the original.

This is the peak of Machine Head's career and they have made it a historical land mark in the history of metal.

For this is one album that is sure to be up there with Slayers Reign in Blood or Metallica's Master of Puppets.

This is, without a doubt, Machine Head's most incredible and outstanding albums yet, so please, welcome into your life one of the greatest music genres in the world - metal.