MACHINE HEAD's FLYNN: 'We've Always Maintained An Extra Honest Relationship With Our Fans'

December 23, 2005

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn recently spoke to MTV.com about the group's recently released DVD, "Elegies". "We wanted to have something we felt represented the band, that captured the band the right way," he explained. "If we do something, it has to be done right. We want to be able to stand behind the things we put out. If we can't, we just don't put it out."

According to Flynn, "Elegies" has already become Roadrunner's bestselling DVD after SLIPKNOT's 2002 release "Disasterpieces". The DVD features tons of live footage captured at London's Brixton Academy a little more than a year ago, as well as "life-on-the-road bits and segments with us being just the stupidest people you've seen in your life, drunk out of our minds." But what Flynn's perhaps most satisfied with is the DVD's documentary, "The Making of Through the Ashes of Empires," which focuses on the band's 2003 album. The segment chronicles one of the toughest times in MACHINE HEAD's history, he said — and the response from fans has been overwhelming.

"After our fourth album, [2001's] 'Supercharger', we negotiated off of Roadrunner, and were unsigned for two years," he told MTV.com. "We were basically rejected by every label in the business. Thirty here in the States rejected us. For a while there, it looked like we would never be a band again. But we worked out a deal [with Roadrunner International] and [the album] ended up coming out in Europe and it exploded. Four months later, a lot of the labels that passed on us were like, 'Hey. What's going on? That record is so good.' And I'm like, 'The one we sent you four months ago? Yeah, it is.' "

In time MACHINE HEAD would re-sign with Roadrunner, ending years of uncertainty, but the film on "Elegies" documents the band's struggles in finding a label home and the internal strife that unfolded within the group during that period.

"For the four of us, it's a tough section to watch," Flynn admitted. "It's brutally honest with moments that I watch and I just cringe. It's tough for me to watch, but we've always maintained an extra honest relationship with our fans."

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