Machine Head

Robb Flynn left Violence in 1992 and set out with Adam Duce and Logan Mader to set up a new band Machine Head , so we are two years from their frantic debut. After a change of drummer (which sees Chris Kontos coming), the band released its burn: Burn My Eyes , incredible successes and very good signature of the Roadrunner Records label , the album quickly became cult. Combining heavy heavy, thrash and power, Machine Head imposes a style on the crossover of different musical runners and plays unmMetal raw, technical and terribly efficient. The band then toured a great deal, a rhythm that did not suit Chris Kontos who had been fired from the band in 1995 and was replaced by Dave McLain (ex Sacred Reich). 1997 saw the arrival of The More Things Change, also a success even if the band remains in what it can do. Logan Mader left the band in 1998 to shoot with Rob Zombie and later join Soulfly; Ahrue Luster then replaces the deserter. In full swing Neo Machine Head comes The Burning Red , slammed by a lot of fans of the first hours (because this album is either saying too Néo-Metal focused). In 2001 the band released a very mixed album, the band still plays well but it lacks inspiration, the band has already sold 1.3 million copies of its albums, but sales are deteriorating; Supercharge will only sell 250,000 copies. Arrived at the end of the contract with Roadrunner Records and now three after the departure of Ahrue Luster for musical divergence, the future does not seem at best for Robb and his band. The label does not solve them and the group tries to approach new ones without success. They record a song "radio friendly" but are also rejected from record companies. The group then decided to take over and brought Phil Demmel, former rival of Robb Flynn during his experience with Violence. The band managed to convince Roadrunner Europe and went to studio recording through The Ashes Of Empires. Released all over the world in 2003 (and preceded by a live: Hellalive ) the record is a return to life, hailed by critics and fans considering that the band is coming back from afar. The album will be released in the United States a few months after its release in Europe and will make it the best start of the band's career. In 2005 the band released a DVD, Elegies, and then returned in 2007 with The Blackening. The album is produced by Robert Flynn and mixed by Colin Richardson. The titles Halo , Aesthetics of Hate , T he Beautiful Mourning , Now I Lay Thee Down were announced in April 2006 by Robb Flynn on the band's newspaper. In line with Through the Ashes of Empires , the album is well received by critics and the public, it rises to 53rd place in album sales in the United States, while the band had never yet reached this position. On 31 August 2009, all four of the Bay Area announced via their official website their leading tour of Europe from 23 January 2010 to 26 February 2010. The band made a stop in France, at the Zenith of Paris on 6 February, during this tour, and was accompanied by three first games including Hatebreed, Bleeding Through. This tour is the first to feature in Europe since 2004, but also the last before a break from the band to start working on a new album, Unto the Locust . The last album, Bloodstone&Diamonds , was released on November 7, 2014, and began in 21st place on Billboard 200 charts, the band's highest score until then. This is the first album with Jared MacEachern on bass, but also the first one not to have been distributed by Roadrunner Records. This one goes out at Nuclear Blast. Machine Head announces at the end of 2015 a European tour with several dates in France early 2016.
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