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MACHINE HEAD Plays First Show Without PHIL DEMMEL; Setlist, Guests Revealed

December 10, 2007

MACHINE HEAD is receiving assistance from members of The Black Crusade tourmates TRIVIUM, ARCH ENEMY and DRAGONFORCE on second guitar while the group's regular axeman Phil Demmel sits out the remaining dates on the trek due to the death of his father.

MACHINE HEAD's setlist for Sunday night's (December 9) concert in Wiesbaden, Germany was as follows:

01. Clenching the Fists of Dissent *
02. Imperium *
03. Aestetics of Hate *
04. Old **
05. Halo ***
06. Take My Scars ***
07. Descend the Shades of Night ****
08. Davidian ***

Guest guitarists (filling in for Phil Demmel):

* Corey Beaulieu (TRIVIUM)
** Frédéric Leclercq (DRAGONFORCE)
*** Matt Heafy (TRIVIUM)
**** Christopher Amott (ARCH ENEMY)

During MACHINE HEAD's performance in Zurich, Switzerland on Friday, December 7, frontman Robb Flynn dedicated the song "Descend the Shades of Night" to everyone who has lost someone important in his/her life, and informed the crowd that MACHINE HEAD had just lost a family member of its own, adding that the song would be played in Phil's father's honor. Demmel reportedly cried while he played the solo to the track, which Flynn had previously described as "an eight-minute elegy on death."

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