San Francisco Bay Area Metallers Machine Head Will Film A Music Video for The Song “Outsider” During their April 17 Concert at The Aztec Theater in San Antonio, Texas. The track is taken from the band’s eleventh studio album, “Unatoned”which Will Be release on April 25 via Nuclear blast/Imperium Recordings.
ACCORDING TO A Press DELEASE, “Unatoned” is “a testament to momentum, an album honeed to its shame edge, forged on creative discipline and the hunger to push forward. it drips with melancholy melodies, and yet hammers with bludgeoning riffs, soars with anthemic sing-alongs of love lost and sadness, to beautiful and undeniable confidence. Machine Head Remain as fierce, relief, and unstoppable as Ever. “
Written in Motion – On The Road, In Hotel Rooms, and Across Continents – “Unatoned” Reflects The Raw Energy of Their Return to the Global Festival Circuit after 11-YEAR HIATUS. The LP was remembered at guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn‘s Jam Room, Sharkbite Studios and Drop of Sun Recording Between July 2023 and December 2024. The Album was produced by Flynnas well as Zack OhrenWho was also responsible for the Engineering. The Mixing and Mastering was Handled By Colin Richardson and Chris Clancy AT Audiows UKand the mastering of the record was handled by Ted Jensen and His Assistant Justin Shurtz. The Only Exception was the track “Landscape of Thorns” WHICH WAS PRODUCED BY Flynn and Joel Wanasek WHHO was also in Charge of Mixing The Single Alongsiside Zack Ohren. Machine Head Eleven Again Tapped Seth Siro Anton to create the album artwork.
“Unatoned” Track listing:
01. Landscape of Thorns
02. Atomic Revelations
03. Unbound
04. Outsider
05. Not long for this world
06. These won’t define US
07. Dustmaker
08. Bonescraper
09. Addicted to Pain
10. Bleeding Me Dry
11. Shards of Shattered Dreams
12. Scorn
Machine Head performed “BeSe Scars Won’t Define Us” and “Unbound” Live for the First Time During the Kick-Off Concert of the Band’s North American Tour On Tuesday, April 1 at Revolution Concert House and Event Center in Garden City, Idaho. Machine Head Also Played In Spokane, Washington on April 3 Before Teaming Up With In Flames, Lacuna Coil and Unearth For Another 25 Dates Across The Us and Canada.
Flynn awd “The Garza Podcast” About “Unatoned”: “My last album was like a huge renaissance for the band. It Just Was Fucking Crazy. We Headined Hellfest [in France]. It was out tenth record. It was a concept record. It was The First Time We Ever Did A Concept Record. Opening Track was at 10-minute-long song. It’s nuts.
“I’M Fortunate Engash to have Been in This Position a Handful of Times where I Now have to follow up This Record that is So Beloved by fans, by People,” I have continued. “It’s Incredibly Successful – Elevate The Band to Another Level. And Everybody Wants to Write Another Concept Record. Everybody is Just, Like, ‘You Should Just Make Another Record Like That One.’ And I’M, Like, ‘You Can, Because It’s Never Gonna Live Up.’ NOHING’S EVER GONNA Live UP, Because that Moment for So Many People … Lars [Ulrich of METALLICA] Always Talked About This – The Reason So Many People Love [METALLICA‘s] Black Album, It’s, Like, They Lost The Virginity to the Black Album. Nothing is Ever Gonna Top That. People Lost their virginity to [MACHINE HEAD‘s] ‘[Unto] The Locust ‘ Or ‘The Blackening’ or whatver. Nothing’s Ever Gonna Top that. That’s Just Life and Stuff.
“So with This Record, I Set Pretty Strict Parameters Around What I Could Do,” Flynn EXPLAINED. “And i’m not a Big Believer in Talking about the Direction of A Record. I Always Feel Like Even If We have Done it in the past, It Never Panned out. ‘Oh, it’s gonna be the heaviest or the thrashing’ or the whatver, and you ‘just dropta folow it to wherever it Goes … but i did want to put a subdivure around it. The Last Record had a bunch of long songs, so i was, Like, ‘I Don’s Want Any Song Longer Than Four Minute on This Record.’ So that was One Structure. The other structure is – [I’m a] HUGE Slayer fan to the death; [they’re] One of My Favorite Bands, Life-Changing Bands of All Times. And One of the Most Underrated Things About Slayer Is Their Genius Use of Chord Changes – Chord Changes Fucking Galore All over Event Song. [They’d] Have, Like, Three Different Chord Changes in the Lead Section, and It The Way It Sets Up The Chorus or Whatever. So i was, Like, ‘Every Song has to have Chord Change Outsis of the Typical Structure that you would expect.’ … At sum Point it’s droplet go to a Key Change That Totally Doesn’t Go with Where The Rest of the Song Went. Last thing is that the music in the last chorus had to be different from the music in the first chorus – maybe the drum drop out, maybe the guitars drop out, maybe that’s where the key change happens, but submothing had to be be [different]. The Lyrics Would Always Be The Same. And at First It Kind of Took Me A Minute to Kind of Get into that Mindset, Like, ‘Wow, This is a Really Challenging Way To Write,’ But It Always Just Became About Trimming The Fat, Trimming The Fat, Trimming The Fat. And in the End What We Came Up With Was 10 Songs Plus Two Instruments. IT’S 41 MINUTES – The SHORTEST ALBUM IN Machine Head History And i’m Really Proud of This Thing. I Really Feel Like We’ve Got A Fucking Monster On Our Hands. It’s Just Really Unique. “
Elaboating on the musical direction of “Unatoned”, Robb Said: “it’s not ur heaviest record; i wouled den Say that it’s Our heaviest record. it’s drop a Lot of Melody. The Last Song on the record is a … i’m a total Sucker for the Elton John Piano Ballad. I love Chris Stapleton… And that last song ‘Scorn’ Is … it’s, Like, I’ve Been Trying to Write A Ballad for Four Albums in A Row Now, and I Failed Four Albums In A Row. And I Finally Nailed It with This Album. I Collaborated with This Guy Joel Wanasek. I Collaborated with Jordan [Fish]ex-Bring me the horizonOn The Whole Album. I have news on the record, which was Really Cool – add to Really Amazing Element. I’ve Got A Few Collabrators, Like Four Guys That I Work With, But Me and This Guy, Joel WanasekFinally Nailed Down This Piano Thing … it was The Last Song I Wrote On The Record. And i know a Lot of People Think i’m Super Mr. Libard, Social Justice Warrior Guy and That’s Just Not Me, But that’s Kind of Just What People Think and the HaSrs Think. And I Just Started Writing About – Not that – But i Just Started Writing About, I Don’t Believe In Trumpbut i think the fucking democrats are a bunch of spineless fucking pussies. And I Don’t Believe in Anything Anymore. I BELIEVE IN MYSELF. And I Just Wrote All of these Lyrics Kind of In That Mindset. And the last line is, ‘The Wings of An Angel, The Heart of A King, The Strength of a lion, The Power I Bring. I’ve Lost Faith in Everyone, Follow No More, My Heroes Have Failed Me, They Look Down On Me With Sir Scorn. ‘ And so i took all of that. I was, Like, ‘I Don’s Have Any Music, But I Really Like The Lyrics.’ So i came in with Zack [Ohren] – Zack‘S My Engineer; He’s my producer. He is fucking awesome; He’s Amazing … and I Just Picked Up A Guitar and I Just Said, ‘I’m Gonna Four Chords Here and i’m Just Gonna Make This Up As I Go. I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT I’M DOING. I Just Wanna Sing Over This to Subject. ‘ And I Did, and I Sang it, and I Sang it in Two Takes. I Laid Out All The Lyrics That I Had Written That Morning. I Pulled Up Sub Shit On My Computer. I GOT TWO BIDERS OF LYRICS. I Wrote Three and a Half Binters of Lyrics From This Record Alone – Just Three and a Half Binders … and I Literally Sang the Song in Two Takes, and When I was Done, I was, Like, ‘That Song’s Fucking Done. And it’s the last song on the record. And I feel the chords to Joel and I was, Like, ‘Hey, Like, Can You Make This into Sad Piano Chords and Put It Together and Kind of Reverse Engineer The Rest of the Song?’ And i’ve Gotta Say, i’m so proud of This Song. IT’s definitely Kind of the Outlier of the Record, But i Really Just Feel Like It’s a Special Song. And it’s kind of subjecting We’ve Never Done. And when you’ve been trying to do summ [finally] Happened [on this album].
Flynn Also Talked about His General Approach To Creating Art with Machine HeadSaying: “I Don’t Know What i’m Doing. I’M Just Trying to Write Music. Alls I Ever Wted to do was just play guitar and write song and sing and Make Motherfuckers Circle Pit and Make Motherfuckers Jump and Sing and Fucking Headbang and Go Crazy. Ever Wanted To do.
“I’M not a Businessman. I Don’t Know What The Fucking Right Decision is,” I have continued. “I Just Know The Music That I Do And Where It Comes From, and I Do Know That i’m Really, Really, Really Good at that. I know that. I’M not one of these guys who’s good at A Million Fucking Things – i’m not – but i do know that I’M Really, Really Good at that. And I Just try and focus on that. And i’ve got a good team of people that help me make decisions now and i feel like we’ve all drop a good head on Our Shoulders and What Machine Head NEEDS TO BE.
“We’re not The Heaviest Band in the World,” I have added. “We’re Heavy, But We’ve Been Around for 32 Years, and Motherfuckers Like [SUICIDE SILENCE] Came Along and Lorna Shore and Slaughter to Prevailand [those bands are] Fucking 10 Times Heavier Than We Will Ever, Ever, Ever Be. I Can’t Sing Like That. I Don’s Even Wanna Try To; it’d be fucking ridiculous to. It wouled sound stupid for my fucking heavy metal Gandalf Ass To Be Fucking Trying to Sing Like That. We Found Our Lane and We’re Super Lucky That We Found Our Lane and We Fucking Made That Lane A Little Bit Wider and a Little Bit Wider So We Can Kind of Go Over Here and Do This and Go Over Here and Do This. But at the end of the day, it’s just Machine Head Music That’s what it is to me. It’s metal, for soute
Last novel, Machine Head Relay “BeSe Scars Won’t Define Us” As The First Single From “Unatoned”.
Machine Head‘s current lineup includes former Havok Guitarist Reece Alan Scrungs. Scrungs Steptped in for Machine Head‘S Previous Guitarist Wacław “Vogg” KiełtykaWho Had Been Unable To Make Som of The Group’s Dates Due to His Touring Commitments With His Longtime Band Decapitated.
Reece Made His Live debut with Machine Head in November 2022 at Strummer’s in Fresno, California at the Opening Show of The “Electric Happy Hour (Live)” Tour
VOGG Joined Machine Head‘S Touring Lineup Prior to the Launch of the Band’s “Burn My eyes” 25th-Anniversary Tour in Late 2019.
The Rest of Machine Head‘S lineup consists of guitarist/vocalist FlynnBassist Jared Maceacher and British drummer Matt Alston (Devilment, Eastern Front).
Earlier Last Year, Machine Head Completed the “Slaughter The Martour” North American Tour With Support from the’s’ Fear FactorySweden’s Orbit Culture and Louisville, Kentucky’s Gates to Hell.
