Machine Head – Unto the Locust (Special Edition) (2011/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:37 minutes | 784 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
After the epic grandeur and perfection of The Blackening, Machine Head delivers Unto the Locust, an album that lives up to its deserved reputation. The band doesn’t waste ideas here or water down its best ones; it hits everything dead-on, and the welcomed complexity is a great relief for a genre often hampered by groups unable to break free from self-imposed rules and limits. At seven and a half minutes, “Locust,” like many tunes here, starts with melodic introspection before tearing the listener’s head off with vicious guitar riffing and demanding drum rhythms. “This Is the End” kicks up dirt while sneaking past some of the most intricate and tuneful guitar lines heard in modern metal. Produced by leader Robert Flynn, the sound is no-nonsense and in your face, like an intense closeup where one can make out every little scratch and instrumental piece. The special edition is an even greater value; it features three bonus cuts, including an acoustic, stripped-down take on the album’s most sensitive track, “Darkness Within.”
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Machine Head – Catharsis (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:14:25 minutes | 896 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast Entertainment
9th studio album by US Groove Metal Masters. 2nd Album on Nuclear Blast. Offering vast quantities of style and substance, Catharsis is a 75-minute, 15-track eruption of pain and fury, hope and joy, melody and savagery. By far the most hard-hitting album Machine Head have ever made, both musically and lyrically, it sustains their long tradition of writing songs about the real world and the authentic, heartfelt emotions that define the human condition.
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Machine Head – Burn My Eyes (Live In The Studio 2019) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:03:02 minutes | 750 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
As part of the upcoming ‘Burn My Eyes’ 25th Anniversary Tour, Robb, Jared, and original BME-alumni Chris Kontos and Logan Mader went into Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California and re-recorded their debut album in-its-entirety…
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Machine Head – Bloodstone & Diamonds (2014/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:11:04 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
“Bloodstone & Diamonds” is the eighth full-length studio album by American heavy metal band Machine Head. Like with previous Machine Head releases, the album’s lyrics detail political and social themes, particularly civil unrest, dissatisfaction and injustice, often with violent conclusions. The album was once again mixed by Colin Richardson with additional tracking, editing, and mixing by Andy Sneap and Steve Lagudi.
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Machine Head – Arrows in Words from the Sky (EP) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 15:42 minutes | 223 MB | Genre: Metal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Nuclear Blast
As promised, Machine Head has just released their new EP Arrows In Words From The Sky. The three song effort was recorded with producer Zack Ohren (Immolation, Fallujah, Antagony) and features drummer Navene Koperweis (Entheos, Whitechapel, ex-Animals As Leaders) alongside frontman Robb Flynn and bassist Jared MacEachern.
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