{"id":1330,"date":"2025-06-14T18:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/?post_type=artist&p=1330"},"modified":"2025-06-14T18:25:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T18:25:59","slug":"machine-head","status":"publish","type":"artist","link":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/artist\/machine-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine Head"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machine Head <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Undisputed masters of murderous riffs, pugnacious grooves and ferocious hooks since 1991,\u00a0Machine Head are long established as one of the most influential and incendiary bands in\u00a0the metal world. Exploding into the world\u2019s consciousness with 1994\u2019s seminal Burn My\u00a0Eyes album, the now legendary Oakland crew brutishly redefined what it meant to be\u00a0heavy, incorporating a wild array of influences into some of the sharpest and most brutal\u00a0metal anthems ever written.<\/p>\n

Nearly three decades later, the band founded and led by vocalist\/guitarist Robb Flynn on\u00a0Oct 12, 1991 at a Metallica concert, (at the end of a 7 year, 3 1\/2 album stint as lead\u00a0guitarist in thrash metal pioneers Forbidden and Vio-Lence) has amassed an extraordinary\u00a0catalogue of classic albums \u2013 including the all-conquering might of 2007\u2019s The Blackening,\u00a0which saw the band traverse the globe several times as headliners and as main support to\u00a0both Metallica and Slipknot – while routinely enhancing an already formidable reputation as\u00a0one of heavy music\u2019s most powerful and relentless live bands.<\/p>\n

In 2022, Machine Head are back with their most crushing and complete album yet. Of\u00a0Kingdom And Crown is an hour-long conceptual monolith, rich in colour and dynamics but\u00a0hell-bent on destruction. Set in a futuristic wasteland where the sky is always crimson red,\u00a0Of Kingdom And Crown tells the tale of two characters, both faced with incalculable trauma,\u00a0whose stories become bloodily entwined as this deep, dark record progresses. Character #1\u00a0loses the love of his life and goes on a murderous rampage against the perpetrators who\u00a0murdered her. Character #2 loses his mother to a drug overdose and becomes radicalized in\u00a0the aftermath, embarking on his own killing spree.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe album and concept was loosely inspired by the Japanese anime series Attack On\u00a0Titan,\u201d says Robb, \u201cin the sense that in that series, there is no \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d guy\u2026 There\u00a0are no cowboys (good), no Indians (bad). Both sides believe they\u2019re doing the right thing,\u00a0but both are committing atrocities and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Produced by Robb Flynn and long-time collaborator Zack Ohren, Of Kingdom And Crown is a\u00a0self-evident upgrade for Machine Head and their ageless, epoch-shattering sound. The\u00a0album begins with Slaughter The Martyr \u2013 a ten-minute epic, mercilessly heavy and\u00a0brimming with wild melodic ideas, and featuring a career best vocal performance from\u00a0Flynn himself, it sets the scene with Character #1\u2019s origin story. Equally stunning are Choke\u00a0On The Ashes Of Your Hate \u2013 simply the most brutal and intense song Machine Head have ever\u00a0recorded \u2013 and Unhallowed: a dark, brooding and subtly progressive hymn for the\u00a0disdained and discarded, with powerhouse harmony vocals from Flynn and bassist Jared\u00a0McEachern. The album ends with arguably the finest song Machine Head have ever written:\u00a0Arrows In Words From The Sky, the grandiose but emotionally visceral climax to the finest\u00a0and most ferocious album of the band\u2019s 30 year career.<\/p>\n

A perennially vital force in heavy music, Machine Head have continued their exhilarating\u00a0evolution, while never losing the furious spirit of their old school, underground roots.\u00a0Impervious to trends and proud to stand alone: Machine Head is still the bulldozer that\u00a0crushes all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1332,"menu_order":0,"template":"","artistgenre":[29],"class_list":["post-1330","artist","type-artist","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artistgenre-metal"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/machine-head.jpg","ams_acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artist"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artistgenre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalradio.top\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistgenre?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}