Machine Fucking Head Live
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Machine Fucking Head Live (on the cover Machine F ** king Head Live ) is the second live album of the American thrash metal band Machine Head . It was released on November 9, 2012 via Roadrunner Records .
Origin and background
The idea of releasing a second live album came to the band during their North American tour for their seventh studio album, Unto the Locust . Machine Head played the so-called The Eighth Plague tour between autumn 2011 and summer 2012 together with Suicide Silence , Darkest Hour , Bring Me the Horizon and DevilDriver .
"The shows of the last leg of the tour were so incredibly fat and the head cases [the band's name for their fans] were so intense that we just had to document the whole thing."
The concerts were recorded by Bozz Porter. Game mistakes and crooked chants were left as they are and not corrected in the studio. Mixed and mastered was Machine Fucking Head Live Juan Urtega and Robb Flynn in Trident Studios in Pachecho , California . The 15 songs selected for the double album are mostly from the last two studio albums Unto the Locust and The Blackening . The albums The More Things Change… , The Burning Red , Supercharger and Through the Ashes of Empires are only represented with one title each. According to Robb Flynn, the songs were chosen based on the reactions of the band and audience.
Track list
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CD 1
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CD 2
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The Deluxe Digital Edition of the album also contains the song Alan's on Fire ( Poison Idea cover version), My Misery and demo versions of the songs Locust and This is the End as a bonus . Those who pre-ordered the album on the Roadrunner Records homepage received the six-song EP B-Sides and Rarities EP as a bonus . This contains the songs Negative Creep , The Possibility of Life's Destruction and Hole in the Sky (cover versions of Nirvana , Discharge and Black Sabbath ) as well as demo versions of the songs Locust , Be Still and Know and I Am Hell (Sonata in C #) .
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Anzo Sadoni from the German magazine Metal Hammer wrote in his review that the band “succeeded in squaring the circle ” because the audience “can be heard at every second” and yet “the band's sound is crystal clear” and gave it seven of seven points is the highest grade. According to Peter Kubaschk from the online magazine Powermetal.de “the album offers 100 minutes of the very best entertainment”, he praised the “successful selection of songs” and the “pleasantly authentic sound”. At the same time, he complained that the concert was not also released on DVD / BluRay . Thomas Meyns from the online magazine Metalnews.de described Machine Fucking Head Live as an “official live record that creates an absolutely authentic concert atmosphere in the living room at home”. However, Meyns described the fact that not a single evening, but various tour stops were recorded as "annoying".
Machine Fucking Head Live debuted at number 56 in the Austrian and at number 62 in the German album charts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Markus Jakob: Tirelessly at the highest level! . In: Blast !, issue 100, page 54
- ↑ Anzo Sadoni: “Dear Audience”. In: Metal Hammer , December 2012, page 64
- ↑ theprp.com: Machine Head Detail Deluxe Digital Edition Of “Machine Fucking Head Live”, Offer Rarities EP With Pre-Orders
- ↑ musicline.de: Machine Head in the German album charts ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ austriancharts.at: Machine Head in the Austrian charts
- ^ Metal Hammer, Dec. 2012, p. 98
- ↑ powermetal.de: Machine Head - Machine Fucking Head Live
- ↑ metalnews.de: Machine Head - Machine F ** king Head Live ( Memento of the original from November 7, 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.
Web links
- Machine Fucking Head Live at Allmusic (English)