ok so today im sorry i am going to have a bit of a rant
this time its about a band called machine head
a band that i used to love, and i suppose to a certain extent i still do but i cant wrap my head around their later material, that said i struggle with pretty nuch everything after their second album
you see it all started so well with one of the most devastating debuts ever heard in metal, the mighty "burn my eyes". it was just stacked to the rafters with great song after great song and as such it was a truly staggering piece of work and duly it has not been bettered by them since
with songs like davidian to open it all up and block to finish it gave metal a severly needed kick up the ass
this continued with their second album, a great album called "the more things change..."
it was effectively more of the same, but with a little more subtlety than the first album and a little more atmosphere
and also with a couple of duff tracks creeping in too! but they could only stay perfect for so long after all
but that said the likes of blistering with its dentrists drill intro and the mighty take my scars to keep us all occupied we didnt really care that bay of pigs was shite
and from here on it all goes to complete and utter shit, really fast
first off they stopped working with colin richardson and got ross (i am the nu metal king) robinson to produce their third album and lost their original guitarist
subsequently their third album felt like a nu metal album complete with terrible rapped vocals all over the place and a terrible police cover
the only songs that sounded like vintage machine head were exhale the vile and five and by their own standards were pretty terrible
the less said about album numbr four the better as supercharger is to me an album that doesnt really exist, there was very little they could do to claw their way back into my good books
what did they try next....a live album?
what a kick in the nuts to their fans!!!!
thankfully colin richardson returned to the recording desk at this juncture and things started to go the right way again as their next album through the ashes of empires was a return to form of sorts
the opening song by itself was worth the price of admission alone as it was a cracker and all was looking good
but then there was of course the rest of the album to digest and herein lies the problem, it was awful!!! the consistencey that made them brilliant for those first two albums was long and gone as ashes felt like it was stuffed to the gills with filler tracks and mr flynns lyrics were starting to get embarrasing, all full of teen angst and lacking any real conviction
then comes the lastest and still most recent, the blackening
and album that the fanbase and critics all love and can see no bad in
i think that i must be the only metal fan that really doesnt like the blackening
its too long,the songs drag,and flynn is trying to sing and he really cant!!!
the harmonies are terrible, please flynn stop trying to sing it hurts my ears, just go back to shouting!!!
ah ok i feel better now that is off my chest