Hellalive

Hellalive
Machine Head's live album
Label (s)	Roadrunner Records
Genre (s)	Thrash metal
Title (number)	14th
running time	77 min 36 s
occupation	Singing / guitar : Robb Flynn Guitar: Ahrue Luster or Phil Demmel Bass : Adam Duce Drums : Dave McClain
production	Machine head
chronology Supercharger (2001) Hellalive Through the Ashes of Empires (2001)

Hellalive is the first live album by the US thrash metal band Machine Head . It was released in 2003 via Roadrunner Records .

Origin and background

Twelve of the 14 songs were recorded at a concert by the band on December 8, 2001 at the Brixton Academy in London . Not included on the album are the songs White Knuckle Blackout and Deafening Silence as well as the cover versions that were played , such as B. Creeping Death from Metallica . Then there are the songs None But My Own and The Burning Red , which were recorded when Machine Head performed at the With Full Force Festival in 2002. Since the guitarist Ahrue Luster left the band in the meantime, Phil Demmel can be heard on guitar during the recordings of With Full Force . Demmel helped out the band at the time and only later became a permanent member.

The band produced the album themselves. Mixed was Hellalive by Colin Richardson , while George Marino, the mastering took over. The fans could decide on the title of the album by voting on the Internet . For the song The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears one was music video rotated. For this, recordings from a performance at the With Full Force Festival were used.

Track list

Bulldozer - 5:01 The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears - 4:16 Ten Ton Hammer - 5:01 Old - 4:59 Crashing Around You - 4:59 Take My Scars - 5:04 I'm Your God Now - 6:22

None But My Own - 7:16 From This Day - 5:09 American High - 3:34 Nothing Left - 5:33 The Burning Red - 6:09 Davidian - 6:00 Supercharger - 7:35

reception

According to Matthias Weckmann from the German magazine Metal Hammer , the album shows Machine Head "at its best: on stage". He gave the album six out of seven points. Thomas Kupfer from German magazine Rock Hard described the album as a reference live record mainly because of the perfect sound by Colin Richardson. Michael Edele from the online magazine Laut.de described Hellalive as a "damn well-rounded affair" that "comforts you well during the waiting time for the next studio album". Markus Jakob from the online magazine Metalnews described the work in his review as “the highlight of a live album”, even if the album “comes across as quite unspectacular in terms of size”. Hellalive could not place itself in the charts.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} laut.de: "Hellalive" by Machine Head
2. ↑ Anzo Sadoni: Hell on Earth . In: Metal Hammer , April 2002, page 44
3. ↑ metal-hammer.de: Machine Head - Hellalive
4. ↑ rockhard.de: Machine Head - Hellalive
5. ↑ metalnews.de: Machine Head - Hellalive ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.