MACHINE HEAD Completes 'Now I Lay Thee Down' Video

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn has posted the following message on the band's official web site:

"Hey, hey, hey fuckers!

"I write to you from the thriving metropolis that is Lubbock, Texas... day off, kickin' it right next to the freeway... woo - hoo.

"We've now got the first three dates of the LAMB OF GOD tour under our belts and I gotta say man, shit is going really, really fuckin' good. The first 17 out of 18 shows are sold out, and we're getting the 'Machine Fuckin' Head' chants between every song... we're blown away over and over again by the response we're getting, seriously mind-blowing. All the LOG guys are really cool. Had a blast with them last night in Austin. We all went to Billy Milano's bar Headhunter's, across the street from Stubb's where we played... managed to talk the local band Rend into letting us jam on their equipment, and had a wildly fun and hideously horrible jam session. With an insanely drunk Willie Adler and a slightly drunk Chris Adler, a wasted Demmel (on bass) and an equally wasted Flynn (on guitar)... oooooh, it wasn't exactly what you'd call 'pretty.' We had Phil's tech 'Bucket Ass' aka 'Short Time' on lead vocals along with Dusty from the LOG camp. The six of us proceeded to butcher 'Walk', 'South Of Heaven', 'Seek and Destroy', 'Lay It Down' by RATT *cough* 'Iron Man' and numerous other bits and pieces, while consuming an ungodly amount of vodka and Jäger shots and laughing hysterically at our horrible-ness...

"Good LORD!!! Too much fun... it really needs to happen again!

"Head Cases, give LAMB OF GOD the utmost respect for having the balls to take THE HEAD out, they deserve it.

"TRIVIUM guys are doing well, going over REALLY friggin' good; got to meet the GOJIRA guys who are some of the nicest guys around, killer band too.

"We started out doing a couple of warm-up shows to shake the rust off since we haven't played live since August, and we were only able to squeeze three practices in between doing videos, press, and having my second son Wyatt. We booked these two shows on short notice thinking / hoping there'd only be a 100 or so people, because we knew we were going to sound like a really bad MACHINE HEAD cover band... then both damn near sell out?! We were like, 'Dammit, now we have to play good... shit!' Funny. We ended up playing 4 new tunes, and WOW, they went over fucking incredible! Seriously unbelievable! I honestly can't remember new songs going over THIS good... well... ever! Maybe when we debuted 'Frontlines' at Dynamo, but even then... it was nothing like this.

"Some people have heard the new songs already, as the album ['The Blackening'] leaked a couple of weeks ago (thanks a lot, U.S. journalists!),but if there's a silver lining in that hooptie-assed cloud, it's the fact that people are seriously freaking out over the new shit, totally losing it. It's a bit overwhelming, I must say, but at the same time though, it's vindicating.

"CD art is done, turned out really cool. Roadrunner actually coughed up for us to have a 16-page booklet, so we're pretty jacked about that! They're so fucking behind this record, man! Been doing press and cover stories galore, just shot an official video for 'Now I Lay Thee Down' ('making of' coming soon...) and are strongly considering doing an un-edited straight-to-YouTube video for 'Clenching The Fists Of Dissent'. Getting ready to go do 'Headbanger's Ball' in March when we roll through NYC. We now have touring plans set up for the next year or so; we wrap up LOG in April, have more U.S. stuff in April/May, doing European festivals come June/July, still working out mid-summer plans for the U.S., and most likely headline our super-enormous mega-package through the U.K. and Europe in October-December. WHEW!! Then probably headline the U.S. in January-March '08 with an equally enormo-mega-package!! Yeah, no rest for the wicked, right?

"Well, I'm off to nurse my hangover, watch a little 'Caddyshack', and then hit the sack.

"We can't wait to see all you crazy fuckers on the road, where we and each of our beer-breathed brethren shall drown out the whines of emo kids around the world with vodka and merryment!!!"

If you pre-order the new MACHINE HEAD album, "The Blackening", from www.NewburyComics.com, you'll also get a free CD booklet signed by the band. Supplies are limited, so get over there now.

As BLABBERMOUTH.NET reported two days ago, MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn is scheduled to complete his vocals for an as-yet-untitled new song at Sonic Ranch studios in Tornillo, Texas this week, to be used as a bonus track/b-side in connection with the group's much-anticipated sixth studio album. The music and most of the vocals for the song were recorded in San Francisco prior to the band leaving home to hit the road with LAMB OF GOD and TRIVIUM. More information will be made available soon.

A crushingly heavy new MACHINE HEAD song, entitled "Aesthetics of Hate", is available for download at this location (free registration required). The track, which comes off "The Blackening", was inspired by an article called "Aesthetics of Hate: R.I.P. Dimebag Abbott, & Good Riddance". The article, written by William Grim for the conservative web site the Iconoclast, basically kicked fans of the slain PANTERA guitarist while they were down, just days after he was killed onstage. The song is a "fuck you" to Grim, from MACHINE HEAD mainman Robert Flynn.

Due on March 27 via Roadrunner Records (one day earlier internationally),"The Blackening" was recorded 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 in London. The cover artwork for "The Blackening" has been posted online at this location.

As previously reported, Flynn will be IRON MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson's guest on Saturday, February 24 during Bruce's weekly BBC 6 Music radio show, aptly named "Rock Show". Listen to the program live via the Internet between 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m. (midnight) U.K. time (between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. EST) at BBC.co.uk.