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A Nation On Fire by Machine Head

Artist Biography For Machine Head

Machine Head Is An American Metal Band From Oakland California. The Band Was Formed In 1991 By Vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn And Bassist Adam Duce. The Band's Aggressive Musicianship Made It One Of The Pioneering Bands In The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal And It Is Also Considered To Be Part Of The Second Wave Of Thrash Metal Bands From The 1990s. Machine Head's Current Lineup Comprises Flynn And Bassist Jared MacEachern. Duce Guitarists Logan Mader Ahrue Luster And Phil Demmel And Drummers Tony Costanza Chris Kontos And Dave McClain Are Former Members Of The Band Mader And Kontos Are Currently Touring With The Band As Part Of The 25th Anniversary Tour For Its First Album Burn My Eyes 1994 . Machine Head's First Four Albums Earned The Band A Growing Fan Base In Europe However The Band Would Not Have Success In Their Native United States Until Later Releases. The Band Drew Controversy With Its Fourth Album Supercharger 2001 Released Three Weeks After The September 11 Attacks Which Resulted In The Album's Only Single "Crashing Around You" And Its Music Video Which Featured Burning Buildings Being Pulled From All Media Outlets. The Band Nearly Disbanded In 2002 After Negotiating Off Its Label Roadrunner Records As A Result Of The Controversy However The Band Would Eventually Re-Sign With The Label. Having Experimented With Elements Of Groove Metal And Nu Metal In Its Early Releases Machine Head Changed To A More Traditional Thrash Metal Sound And Longer Songs With Its Sixth Album The Blackening 2007 Which Drew Critical Acclaim And Was Chosen As Album Of The Decade By Metal Hammer In 2010 The Album's First Single "Aesthetics Of Hate" Also Earned The Band Its First Grammy Award Nomination. The Band Achieved Similar Success With Its Following Two Albums Unto The Locust 2011 And Bloodstone & Diamonds 2014 Before Returning To Its Nu Metal Roots With The Release Of Its Ninth Album Catharsis 2018 . Machine Head Has Released Nine Studio Albums Two Live Albums One Video Album 13 Singles And 15 Music Videos. Four Of The Band's Studio Albums Have Been Certified Silver In The United Kingdom And The Band's Highest Peak On The Billboard 200 Came With Bloodstone & Diamonds At Number 21. To Date The Band Has Sold Over Three Million Records Worldwide. Studio Albums
Burn My Eyes 1994 The More Things Change... 1997 The Burning Red 1999 Supercharger 2001 Through The Ashes Of Empires 2003 The Blackening 2007 Unto The Locust 2011 Bloodstone & Diamonds 2014 Catharsis 2018

Frogtoon Music - Song Info: A Nation On Fire

“Again This Was A Big Logan Mader Song. Logan Wrote This Really Cool Intro That Was Just Weird And Off Time. It Had A Really Clean Guitar But It Was Full Of Nothing But Evil Notes. Logan Was A Trippy Cat Because Both Adam And Logan It Was The First Band They Were Ever In. They Had Never Performed Before Never Jammed And Logan Had Never Written Intros Or Played Lead So I Just Kinda Threw Shit At Him And It Warped Into This Really Unique Strange Style I Think Because He Was Learning Everything On The Fly. So He Wrote This Really Cool Intro And That Song Like Davidian Was A Reflection Of The American Condition And A Reflection Of A Pretty Gnarly Neighbourhood That We Were Living In. We Were At War And It Was About Racism. There’s A Lyric In There ​‘You Tell Me Peace While I Hear Gunshots All Night’ And I’d Get Woken Up By People A Block Away Firing Guns In The Air. It Was A Fucking Crazy Time. “The LA Riots Had Just Happened After The Rodney King Trial And Those Riots Happened Everywhere They Happened All Over Oakland And All Over Berkeley And I Remember When I Wrote The Lyrics To That Song I Was Living In Berkeley And I Heard All This Shit Was Going Off. I Had A Mountain Bike I Didn’t Have A Car At The Time And I Remember Riding My Mountain Bike Up To Telegraph Avenue Because The News Said People Were Rioting On Telegraph Avenue. Rather Than Do The Smart Thing Like Everybody Else Which Was To Stay In The Fucking House I Jumped On My Mountain Bike Like ​‘I Wanna Go To The Riot!’ I Literally Rode My Mountain Bike Into This Riot That Was Happening On Telegraph Avenue Because I Wanted To Feel Alive And Absorb This Crazy Moment It Time. It Was Insane! There Was People Lighting Cop Cars On Fire And Tear Gas Between Protesters And Police. I Got Chased By A Gang Of Protesters And Then Went Right Into A Gang Of Police And They Were Chasing Me. I’m Literally Pedaling For My Life And People Are Taking Swings At Me. It Was Crazy. After That All Of Those Lyrics For A Nation On Fire Just Came Pouring Out.”

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