MACHINE HEAD: Another Behind-The-Scenes Look At New Album Recording Sessions Available
December 19, 2006Enter the studio with MACHINE HEAD in part two of "The Blackening Sessions", a behind-the-scenes look at the band as they record their upcoming album, "The Blackening". Head on over to the "Media" page of the band's official web site at this location to watch the clip.
MACHINE HEAD's sixth studio album, "The Blackening" is tentatively due on March 27, 2007 via Roadrunner Records (one day earlier internationally). The group recorded the new CD at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn returning to the producer's chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime MACHINE HEAD collaborator Colin Richardson (CANNIBAL CORPSE, TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) mixed the record alongside Flynn in London. The band also tapped longtime MACHINE HEAD artist Paul Brown (MARILYN MANSON) to work on the album art.
"The Blackening" tentative track listing (not in final order):
01. Clenching the Fists of Dissent
02. Beautiful Mourning
03. Aesthetics of Hate
04. Now I Lay Thee Down
05. Slanderous
06. Halo
07. Wolves
08. A Farewell to Arms
In a recent interview with MTV.com, Flynn stated about the upcoming CD, "We really didn't want to play it safe on this record. We kind of came back from the dead with 'Through the Ashes of Empires', and the safest thing we could've done would've been to just stay in [that] vein and try to keep that formula because it worked last time. Not that there was a formula really. We just started writing and the music that we were writing just started going in this far more complex, intricate and layered direction. It's not like we sat there and intentionally did it. It just kind of [happened]. Pretty soon we ended up having 10-minute-long songs. But the thing that's really cool about it is, we're not just jamming on three riffs for 10 minutes. This is molten riffage — just 20, 30 crushing riffs per song."
MACHINE HEAD will team up with LAMB OF GOD, TRIVIUM and GOJIRA for a North American tour in February-April 2007. (NOTE: MACHINE HEAD will go on **before** TRIVIUM and will perform a 40-minute set every night.)
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