Burn my eyes
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August 9, 1994 |
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55 min 38 s (regular version) |
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Burn My Eyes is the debut album of American Metal - band Machine Head . The album was released on August 9, 1994 via Roadrunner Records . Along with Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera and Demanufacture by Fear Factory, it is one of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s.
Emergence
Flynn wrote most of the songs during a difficult time for him. Flynn, Duce, and a friend of the two got into a mass brawl with a street gang. Flynn's friend then stabbed some gang members with a knife. Knowing that Flynn was still playing for Vio-lence at the time and the band was about to play a concert in the area, the gang threatened the club owner with throwing hand grenades on stage during the concert . Flynn then left Vio-Lence and lived in panic for the next few months. Drummer Chris Kontos left the band shortly after the end of the recording, and was succeeded by Dave McClain in 2016 .
Was taken burn my eyes in the Fantasy Studios in Berkeley . The album was produced by the British Colin Richardson . In the run-up there was a dispute with the Dutch band Gorefest , which Richardson had booked for the recording period. The album was mixed by Colin Richardson and Vincent Wojno, while Eddy Schreyer did the mastering . Originally the album was supposed to be called Davidian . With the intervention of the Roadrunner- A&R Monte Conner, it finally became Burn My Eyes . Conner also initially disagreed with the sound of the album and ordered the album to be completely re-mixed.
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The song Davidian is about the Waco siege , in which 82 members of the Branch Davidians sect were killed around their leader David Koresh . In Death Church , it is important that everyone be strong and not others should live according to the specifications.
The song I'm Your God Now is about the near death of Robb Flynn. By the time the band signed with Roadrunner, Flynn was having a serious drug problem. Right before the album was released, Flynn sat down a heroin overdose . He survived but vowed not to touch heroin any more. Originally I'm Your God Now was n't intended to be used on the album. After a friend of Flynn's died of an overdose, the band changed their mind and dedicated the song to their friend. The song Blood for Blood contains a guitar riff which is similar to the riff of the song Spirit in Black from Slayer's Seasons-in-the-Abyss album.
Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies is an instrumental piece that contains excerpts from news programs. These excerpts deal with the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 and prejudice against whites by blacks and vice versa. According to Flynn, the song is a statement on the subject of racism .
Flynn was heavily criticized for the lyrics. He was accused of promoting violence among young listeners. Flynn contradicted these criticisms, stating that he "only put down on paper what he saw with his own eyes in America".
For the 25th anniversary of Burn My Eyes , the band played a worldwide series of concerts, during which the album was played in full with the help of guitarist Logan Mader and drummer Chris Kontos , both of whom were part of the original line-up at the time.
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Burn My Eyes received excellent reviews from the trade press. Rock Hard magazine voted Burn My Eyes album of the month, and editor Frank Albrecht gave it the highest number of points in the review. For Albrecht Burn My Eyes is “the album that the Thrash community had to wait far too long for”. Furthermore, Albrecht was certain that the album "will very soon be [called] in the same breath as classics such as Reign in Blood or Bonded by Blood ". Oliver Recker from the German Metal Hammer wrote that the band "has melodies and riffs that bring tears of joy to the eyes" and awarded seven out of seven points. The title of the album of the month divided burn my eyes with the album Pawn Shop Guitars by Gilby Clarke .
The album reached number 35 in the German, number 29 in the Austrian and number 25 in the British album charts. Burn My Eyes became one of the best-selling albums in Roadrunner history and is considered by many metal fans as the company's best debut album. Overall, the album sold around 150,000 copies in the US, while more than 400,000 copies were sold worldwide. Until the release of the first Slipknot album, Burn My Eyes was the best-selling debut album by a Roadrunner band.
While the band celebrated great success in Europe, success in North America was limited. An average of 150 spectators came to the concerts, while in Europe it was up to 3,000. The band cynically christened the unsuccessful headlining tour through North America "The Disastour".
Versions
In addition to the regular CD version, there is a special version in a black jewel case with the Machine Head logo printed on it. The digipak version includes a cover version of the Poison Idea song Alan's on Fire as a bonus . A tour edition was released in Australia that includes a bonus CD with five demo songs.
Republication
On October 31, 2006, Roadrunner announced that it would re-release the album as part of the company's 25th anniversary. The re-release should contain a bonus CD on which previously unreleased material or rarities should be used. January 8, 2007 was named as a possible release date. The re-release was later postponed to September 2007 in order not to stand in the way of the release of the new album The Blackening . Finally, Roadrunner decided not to republish.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Thomas Kupfer: The King of Europe . In: Rock Hard , November 2003, page 23 ff.
- ↑ a b Björn Thorsten Jaschinski: All good things come in threes . In: Legacy # 93, page 29
- ^ A b c Frank Albrecht: Out of the Ghetto . In: Rock Hard, August 1994, p. 42
- ^ Matthias Weckmann: Donnerwetter . In: Metal Hammer , April 2007 edition, page 26ff.
- ↑ VISIONS : Machine Head are on "Burn My Eyes" anniversary tour , March 26, 2019, accessed on November 2, 2019.
- ↑ officialcharts.com: Machine Head in the UK charts
- ↑ austriancharts.at: Machine Head in the Austrian charts
- ↑ officialcharts.de: Machine Head in the German album charts
- ↑ rockhard.de: Machine Head - Burn My Eyes
- ↑ metal-hammer.de: Machine Head - Burn My Eyes ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ thegauntlet.com: Machine Head Bio
Web links
- Review of Burn My Eyes by John Franck on Allmusic
- Burn My Eyes at Discogs
- Burn My Eyes on MusicBrainz