Machine Head Latest News

Machine Head/Mutiny Within Date Changes

Due to the postponement of the Megadeth/Slayer Canadian run (due to an injury in the Slayer camp), the Machine Head/Mutiny Within show scheduled for 11/6 at The Crazy Donkey, Farmingdale, NY has been moved to 11/12.

The previously scheduled Mutiny Within date at Santos, New York, NY on 11/12 will most likely be postponed.

Machine Head Tour Dates with Megadeth, Metallica

As reported Machine Head are supporting Megadeth on their North American tour starting in November.

Additionally you can see Machine Head and Metallica on the following dates:

12/5/2009 Mandalay Bay Events Center Las Vegas, NV

12/7/2009 Idaho Center Nampa, ID United States

12/8/2009 Arco Arena Sacramento, CA United States

12/10/2009 Honda Center Anaheim, CA United States

12/12/2009 HP Pavilion at San Jose San Jose, CA

Machine Head Sonisphere Footage Airs on VH1

Saturday September 5th and Sunday September 6th, 9PM both days, watch VH1's broadcast of Sonisphere to see live performances from Machine Head, Metallica, Anthrax, Alice in Chains and more.

MACHINE HEAD PHOTOS FROM SKULLS N BONES.COM

GO HERE to check out an awesome picture gallery of live Machine Head shots! Courtesy of our homies over at Skulls N Bones. ENJOY!

BLABBERMOUTH EXCLUSIVE: MACHINE HEAD/METALLICA

Blabbermouth.net today posted an exclusive interview with Machine Head's Robb Flynn on performing the band's songs with Metallica's James Hetfield. The article is accompanied by numerous photos and live videos.

Follow this link to Machine Head goodness.

METALSUCKS COMPLETELY UNREADABLE LOGO OF THE WEEK!

"The fine folks at Roadrunner Records have provided us with some copies of the ultra-special super duper yowza edition of Machine Head's 2007 instant classic, The Blackening. In addition to the album, you get two bonus tracks - a cover of Maiden's "Hallowed By Thy Name" and a cover of Metallica's "Battery" - PLUS a DVD with live performances, music videos, "making of" specials on those music videos, and, the piece de resistance, a "making of" documentary about the creation of The Blackening itself. So clearly, if you're a fan of Machine Head or just good fucking metal in general, you need to own this."

Check out the instructions, the logo and how to win by going HERE!

WIN ROBB FLYNN'S FLYING V SIGNED BY MACHINE HEAD!

To enter to win the Machine Head signed Flying V guitar, you must complete the quiz on TheGauntlet.com and enter your Name/Email Address. The winner will be selected at random, 1 entry per person and you must be 13 to enter. Winner will be selected on March 31!

Enter the contest HERE!

MACHINE HEAD PODCAST ON HEADBANGERS BLOG!

After years of feeling a little slighted by Metallica, San Francisco’s second most popular thrash group, Machine Head, were fully vindicated when the world’s biggest metal band asked them open their lengthy Death Magnetic tour. It was, perhaps, the high point of the upward arc that’s accompanied Machine Head’s 2007 album The Blackening. Since they began touring for the disc, they’ve performed powerful headline shows, raised eyebrows at outdoor festivals, played direct support to Slipknot in Europe and partied their asses off wherever they went. But while Machine Head have made lots of new fans and friends, and experienced plenty of love onstage, behind the scenes the band has been on the edge of collapse. Click more to hear our podcast with frontman Robb Flynn, who explains what went wrong and what they’re doing to fix the Machine.

MACHINE HEAD ON HEADBANGERS BALL THIS SATURDAY!

SATURDAY'S VIDEOS
BLACK TIDE - SHOUT
MISERY INDEX - TRAITORS
SATYRICON - BLACK CROW ON A TOMBSTONE
MACHINE HEAD - HALLOWED BE THY NAME
ANTHRAX - MADHOUSE
PIG DESTROYER - LOATHSOME
THE SWORD - HOW HEAVY THIS AXE
LAMB OF GOD - BLACK LABEL
SYMPHONY X - SET THE WORLD ON FIRE
3 INCHES OF BLOOD - TRAIL OF CHAMPIONS

RR STAFF & ARTIST TOP TEN ALBUMS OF 2008

Featuring top ten albums of 2008 lists from Machine Head, Cavalera Conspiracy, Dream Theater, Nickelback, Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, DevilDriver, Trivium, many more artists and Roadrunner Records staff!

Roadrunner Records Top 10 Albums 2008

Don't forget to leave comments on all your favorite lists!

BRIAN FAIR GETS BLASTED AT ROADRUNNER UNITED

TheGauntlet is premiering our next Roadrunner United Concert DVD clip exclusively right now. Check out Brian Fair blasted as the Corey Taylor, Dino, Robb Flynn, Joey Jordison, Travis Smith, and Killswitch Engage discuss.

Watch the video here.

The Roadrunner United Concert DVD comes out on December 9th, 2008. To see all the clips released so far, visit the first clip's video page.

There are twenty more clips coming down the line, with another premiering today at Decibel, and two later in the week at LambGoat and Amazon.

MORE RR UNITED CLIPS COMING OCTOBER 27TH

This Monday you'll be treated to two more exclusive clips from the Roadrunner United Concert DVD, out December 9th, 2008.

First up at The Gauntlet is a great three minute clip featuring Brian Fair, Corey Taylor, Dino, Robb Flynn, Joey Jordison, Travis Smith, and Killswitch Engage. This one's fantastic because you see Brian incredibly drunk attempting to stage dive, and a whole lotta discussion about favorite Max Cavalera music.

Over at Decibel you'll see a rad clip of Glen Benton and Corey Taylor. Glen...well, Glen had this costume, you see...and Corey goes into some of his personal history enjoying Deicide.

Check out all the clips released so far, and visit often to see when new ones are added, at this location.

ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE DAGGER!

Not only is "The Dagger" a fan favorite, but it's several artists' favorite from the whole project. Here Howard Jones discusses writing it, while Adam Duce, Robb Flynn, Andreas Kisser and Paul Gray give their thoughts on the track.

WATCH THE VIDEO ONLY AT REVOLVERMAG.COM

This is the third of over 25 clips we're rolling out all over the web. Check out the first two in the "OTHER VIDEOS by this artist" section at the link above.

The Roadrunner United Concert DVD is out December 9th, 2008.

BLABBERMOUTH PREMIERES ROADRUNNER UNITED

Blabbermouth.net today premieres the first in a series of over 25 clips from the upcoming Roadrunner United concert DVD (out December 9th). Take a look at it here.

The clip features Robb Flynn, Corey Taylor, Roy Mayorga, and Joey Jordison talking about performing the song "Surfacing." Stay tuned for another clip in a couple of days, and every couple of days thereafter across the net!

PHIL DEMMEL: THE METAL INJECTION CONNECTION

The Metal Injection folks pass this tidbit along to us. You'll want to check it out, not only because it's full of good info, but because Phil's a great interview to watch.

Metal Injection has posted an exclusive new interview with Phil Demmel, guitarist of seminal thrashers MACHINE HEAD. During the interview, Demmel discusses the success of the band's most recent release, The Blackening and if he feels any pressure to follow it up, the touring cycle for the record, opening up for Metallica at Wembly Stadium, when fans can expect new Machine Head (January 2010 the earliest) and more.

The clip can be viewed at this location:
http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/1517/machine-head-interview-with-phil-at-mayhem-fest-2008

MACHINE HEAD FAN FORCED TO REMOVE T-SHIRT

Blabbermouth reports on a high-school-age Machine Head fan who was forced to remove his new band shirt at school. The closed-minded pedagogue apparently has a son serving in Iraq. Now, this person may not be one of the people who say this, but don't you often hear that soldiers in Iraq are fighting to protect Constitutional rights in the United States? Seems a little mismatched to me.

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

ATTENTION: MACHINE HEAD FANS!

Machine Head are proud to announce the release of the special edition version of The Blackening, their Grammy-nominated masterwork. Hailed unanimously as the best metal album of 2007 by journalists, metal radio stations and fans alike, it earned a Grammy nomination for the fan-favorite track, "Aesthetics of Hate" and all the while Machine Head continue to earn "the hardest working band" title with over 19 months on the road in support of The Blackening (with 5 U.S. tours alone) and no signs of stopping soon.

The Blackening Special Edition is two disc CD/DVD set that will feature an assortment of extras, including rare bonus tracks such as covers of Iron Maiden's "Hallowed Be Thy Name", over an hour of live performance footage from With Full Force, Download and Rock in Rio festivals, three uncensored music videos for "Aesthetics of Hate," "Now I Lay Thee Down" and "Halo," a "making of" featurette on each video, "The Making of The Blackening" and expanded artwork. Plus, what many hardcore fans have been rabidly waiting for, 4 never-before-seen performances of Machine Head celebrating the 10^th anniversary of their debut album, Burn My Eyes, captured in Philadelphia in 2004. This special edition is a must have for any fan of this Bay Area band that is steadily carving out "legendary status" for itself within the metal scene.

Machine Head spent the summer headlining the second stage of the first annual Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival and the band will cap off two extremely successful years as direct support on Metallica's U.S. headline tour in December and January 2009. Metallica frontman James Hetfield was quoted as telling Revolver, "The Blackening", unbelievable. Unbelievable sound and power. It sounds like a band on fire. They have really turned it on again for me."

The Blackening Special Edition is due in stores October 28, 2008.

Disc 1: Cd

1. Clenching The Fists of Dissent
2. Beautiful Mourning
3. Aesthetics of Hate
4. Now I Lay Thee Down
5. Slanderous
6. Halo
7. Wolves
8. A Farewell To Arms
9. Hallowed Be Thy Name (Bonus Track)
10. Battery (Bonus Track)

Disc 2: DVD

LIVE PERFORMANCES

1. Clenching The Fists Of Dissent (With Full Force 2008)
2. Now I Lay Thee Down (With Full Force 2008)
3. Halo (With Full Force 2008)
4. Aesthetics Of Hate (Rock In Rio 2008)
5. Davidian (Rock In Rio 2008)
6. Imperium (Download 2007)
7. Old (Download 2007)
8. A Thousand Lies (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)
9. The Rage To Overcome (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)
10. Death Church (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)
11. Blood For Blood (Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004)

Music Videos

1. Halo
2. Now I Lay Thee Down
3. Aesthetics of Hate
(Plus a "Making Of" feature for each video)

Making of The Blackening

JAMES HETFIELD DIGS MACHINE HEAD'S LATEST ALBUM

Brandon from Revolver Magazine interviewed Metallica's guitarist/vocalist James Hetfield who talked about Machine Head and their latest album, The Blackening, during their chat!

Hetfield: "But this band MACHINE HEAD, the two of the guys who were in VIO-LENCE [frontman Robb Flynn and lead guitarist Phil Demmel], we just did some dates with them over in Europe. And man, I couldn't get enough. It was unbelievable.

Revolver: Yeah, they rule.

Hetfield: They're so heavy, and super-friendly. They get it, and they love it. The last album, The Blackening, unbelievable. Unbelievable sound, power. It sounds like a band on fire. They have really turned it on again for me."

You can check the full interview out here to see how they got into it.

MACHINE HEAD MAYHEM INTERVIEW

Check out the awesome interview the guys from MetalSucks.net had with Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel on the Mayhem tour this summer by going HERE.