The Burning Red
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August 10, 1999 |
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| Label (s) | Roadrunner Records | |||
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12 |
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50 min 5 s (regular version) |
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Indigo Ranch, Malibu |
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The Burning Red is the third studio album by the American Metal - band Machine Head . It was released on August 10, 1999 via Roadrunner Records . The Burning Red was received positively by the critics, but is controversial among fans due to its more melodic orientation and rap singing used at times. It was the first Machine Head album with Ahrue Luster .
Emergence
As with the previous album The More Things Change ... there was a change in the band line-up. Guitarist Logan Mader showed up late for a band rehearsal. Under the influence of methamphetamine, he cursed the other band members and left the band a day later. Several candidates applied for the vacant position, including Exodus guitarist Gary Holt. Ahrue Luster, who previously played with Manmade God , became the new guitarist . A short time later, singer Robb Flynn went into therapy to combat his problems with alcohol , drugs and bulimia .
In January 1999, Machine Head began writing new songs. The band set themselves the goal of taking a new musical direction and freeing the songs from unnecessary ballast. At the same time, a new producer, Ross Robinson , who had previously produced bands like Korn or Soulfly , was hired . Immediately there were fears among fans that Machine Head would musically change towards Nu Metal .
“When we discussed the concept for the new album with Ross [Robinson], we gave him a basic condition. We didn't want to sound like Korn. [...] Ross was incredibly happy about it, because every band that comes to him wants to sound like Korn. "
For the album, the band recorded several cover versions . The regular album version features a song by The Police called Message in a Bottle . That this song was recorded was a coincidence. Flynn started singing the song while tuning his guitar in the studio. At that moment Robinson came into the studio and felt that the band should record the song. On the digipack version with House of Suffering a Bad-Brains to hear -Coverversion.
On the burning red for the first time is Rapgesang to hear from Robb Flynn, especially in the first single From This Day and Desire to Fire . According to Flynn, the stylistic device of rap singing had been latent since the band was founded. On the song A Thousand Lies from his debut album , he has already used Wu Tang clan breaks.
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Flynn wrote very personal lyrics for The Burning Red . In an interview he stated that he didn't want to reveal anything really personal before. The texts were only partially printed in the album's booklet .
“With the lyrics, I wanted anyone who should understand them to be able to decipher them by listening. With everyone else, it might be better if they didn't even have a clue about the topic. "
Exhale the Vile addresses the frustration that had built up with Flynn in the years leading up to his therapy. In Silver it comes to walls, building a man in order to protect themselves. The theme song deals with the subject of suicide . The song Five has an autobiographical meaning for Flynn. The song is about how he was mistreated by a member of his family when he was five. Flynn refused to comment on this song in the interviews. In the last two songs, Flynn revealed incidents that he hadn't told even his closest friends about before.
In Devil with the King's Card , the band processed the separation from Logan Mader. Regarding the album title, Flynn explained that the color red in the USA stands for different things like anger , blood or war . Ahrue Luster explained that the color red also stands for the contrast of the band's music.
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The album received good reviews from the press. In the German Metal Hammer was The Burning Red voted "Album of the Month". According to Matthias Weckmann, The Burning Red is "in terms of content the Machine Head record that you have to deal with the most". Weckmann awarded the maximum number of seven points. In the German Rock Hard was the burning red voted "Album of the Month". Thomas Kupfer praised the fact that the band "made an enormous step forward in terms of composition" and awarded nine out of ten points.
The Burning Red was the first Machine Head album to enter the Top 100 of the US album charts and reached number 88. In Germany the album reached number 15 and in Austria number 22. The Burning Red sold until April 2002 in the USA 134,000 times. Within about three years, about 10,000 fewer copies of this album were sold than the debut album Burn My Eyes in eight years.
The album was sometimes heavily criticized by the fans. The band was also accused of having hooked up to Nu Metal because of the rap singing. Flynn left this criticism cold:
“The media focused on two minutes of rap instead of evaluating the remaining 55 minutes. [...] The Burning Red had so many other songs to watch out for. But everyone wanted to push us into the rap rock corner. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Allmusic - The Burning Red
- ↑ Jon Wiederom: Through the Ashes . In: Revolver Magazine, May 2007
- ↑ a b c d e Matthias Weckmann: The red in the eye . In: Metal Hammer, August 1999, page 60
- ↑ a b Wolf Kohl: A band sees red . In: Metal Hammer , June 1999, page 20
- ↑ a b Jan Jaedike: First the whip, then platinum . In: Rock Hard , July 1999, p. 22
- ↑ Melanie Schmidt: There is still soup! . In: Rock Hard, November 2001, p. 24
- ↑ machinehead1.com: Biography ( Memento from October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ officialcharts.com: Machine Head in the UK charts
- ↑ 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
- ^ Billboard.com: Machine Head Chart History
- ^ Metal Hammer, August 1999, p. 88
- ↑ rockhard.de: Machine Head - The Burning Red
- ↑ blabbermouth.net: Metal / Hard Rock Album Sales In The US As Reported By SoundScan ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 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.
- ^ Matthias Weckmann: Under power . In: Metal Hammer, October 2001, page 40
Web links
- Official homepage of the band
- Review of The Burning Red by Rick Anderson on Allmusic
- The Burning Red at Discogs
- The Burning Red on MusicBrainz