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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: Old

“Logan Mader Actually Came With That Main Riff. We Were Practicing On San Pablo Avenue In Oakland And It Was A Pretty Gnarly Part Of Town It Was Nothing But Crackheads Homeless People And Hookers And It Was Somebody’s Tattoo Studio That We Were Rehearsing At Right On The Main Street. We’d Start Playing And There Was This Window Right Behind Chris That Had Bars All Over It And All These Homeless People And Crackheads Would Stand Behind The Window Rocking Out. We Were Really Listening To Hip-Hop And Obviously We’re In Oakland Where We’re Constantly Exposed To That So In Between Our Songs We’d Jam The Popular Hip-Hop Songs Of The Day Like Wu Tang Clan Cypress Hill And Stuff Like That. And All These Homeless People Would Be Like ​‘Oh Shit These White Boys Can Fucking Rock.’ In A Weird Way Just Playing For The Neighbourhood Crackheads Kinda Shaped The Music And We Started Bringing In Some Of That Just Because Of The Reaction We Were Getting From Them. That Groove On Old Is Probably One Of The More Hip-Hop Based Grooves Even Though The Riff Is Heavy As Fuck And The Lyrics Are Evil And Blasphemous About Jesus Coming Down And Being Shot Like If He Came Down Today Nothing He Said Would Have The Effect It Did Back Then. But We Put It To This Grooving Beat And It Made The Song Really Cool. There’s A Lot Of Songs About Religion On Burn My Eyes. I Was Never A Religious Person But My Mom Had Recently Gone Born Again And My Dad’s Twin Brother Had Joined A Cult. When I Was A Kid We Actually Went Up There And Tried To Get Him Out Of The Cult And We Couldn’t We Failed. We Just Left And My Dad Didn’t Speak To Him For Decades It Was Crazy. So The Lens That I Look At Religion Through Is Through That My Dad’s Twin Brother Joining A Cult And Not Being Able To Get Him Out And Seeing The Damage It Caused. That’s Really What Old Was About.”

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