Machine Head - Bloodstone & Diamonds (2014)

Me ha hecho gracia como lo has puesto ahi en negrita y tal en plan notición nada más XD

Muy chula esta foto por cierto, i like the new logo



El comunicado entero:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid ... 822&type=1

Así q a finales d este mes está previsto q ya entren al estudio..
Antes de lo q me esperaba.

Qué ganacas de nueva mierda..

Me encanta esta banda, y, desde mi humilde opinión, con Blackening y Unto the Locust han dado un salto de calidad tremendo, hasta el punto que creo que han dejado en evidencia al resto de la discografía. No es una crítica, es una opinión, no quiero otro TTAE, que es un discazo... Quiero que sigan por esta línea, más técnica y compleja.

Muy guapo el nuevo logo.

Yo siempre veré el logo como siempre ha sido, sin las moderneces que le pongan

"We're finishing up writing our new record. We have 6 songs done, and 2 half-songs that feel like they're going somewhere.

"From time to time, you wonder where things will end up or chart, but it never really comes on our radar. It can't, it dilutes the priority: authenticity.

"We've never tried to write a #1 album in our lives. The world is too fickle, tastes change, lives change, you just write for yourselves, maybe think ahead to what might work live, but ultimately, come up with 'what feels right.'

"It's an arcane process, like walking through a pitch-black room feeling the walls, looking for a door knob, and soon you find it, and that opens up to another pitch-black room, but eventually you see light under the door crack, you can feel when you're getting close, and soon find your way out. It's an incredible feeling when you do. I feel like we can see the light under the door crack, but haven't found our way out yet. It's daunting, a little nerve-wracking, and exciting all at the same time.

"We've booked GREEN DAY's JingleTown studio in East Oakland again, and we'll be starting on October 30th. Behing the board stuff will be the same team that did 'Locust', Juan Urteaga and Brad K. engineering, myself producing for the fourth time.

"So like I said, we're 6 songs deep, not quite finished, I feel like we still need a 'Locust'-type song. Still need an epic opener.

"We posted a picture of the song titles a week ago: 'Killers & Kings' definitely feels like a 'track 2.' Uptempo, will be great live, big shout-along chorus. Not sure where the rest are as of this Journal. There are some fast ragers ('Ojos De La Muerte'), one with an old-school hardcore / 'More Things Change' flavor (the Manson-murder-themed 'Night Of The Long Knives'), 'Beneath The Silt' has a 'Elegy'-type vibe to me, but with way better execution, 'Sail Into The Black' has a 'Descend The Shades Of Night' sorta-feel but darker, and is the only long song of the bunch at 8 minutes, the others (for-no-reason-in-particular) all clock in at 4 or 5 minutes.

Perfecto canciones de 4-5 min que sean directas a la yugular.

2002 Demo originally recorded by Machine Head and released in celebration of the 10 Year anniversary of "Through The Ashes Of Empires". The song was written while unsigned and shopping for a label in 2002, and was eventually deleted from the album as the band hated it. Robb Flynn vocalist / guitarist for Machine Head released it on November 1, 2013 as part of a series of "General Journals" celebrating the album.

Taking place on Friday Jan 17 in Oakland, the concert was organised by Forbidden and Spiralarms guitarist Craig Locicero in honour of a good friend of many of the bands from the Bay Area scene who’s suffered a heartbreaking tragedy.

“A good friend of ours and all around great person, Nikki Davis, was in a motorcycle accident with her husband Jeff,” explains Craig. “Sadly, Jeff died at the scene. Fortunately, Nikki survived but she was unconscious for a few days. She awoke to the daunting reality that her husband, soulmate and best friend had passed away. It was heartbreaking to all of us in the Bay Area scene. Robb Flynn and I have known Nikki for at least 25 years and she is a huge supporter of the Bay Area’s metal and punk scene. I wanted to help Nikki out a year ago, but most every band was busy on tour and unavailable. A few weeks ago, I had approached Robb about doing a benefit for Nikki and he thought it was a great idea.

“Robb has gone above and beyond to help bring together something very special and memorable to help Nikki on January 17th. He’s been the catalyst for getting this thing off the ground so quickly and Nikki is very thankful. We hope to raise enough money to help Nikki continue to get back on her feet because the healing is not finished. She still has medical bills to pay and we want to do anything we can to help our old friend.”

Though it’s unclear exactly who will take part in the gig, members of Metallica, Slayer, Suicide Silence, Testament, Exodus and more are advertised to be playing some classic Black Sabbath tracks, and anyone who wishes to donate to the cause can do so by donating via Paypal to help_jeff_n_nikki_d@yahoo.com.
http://www.metalhammer.co.uk/news/machi ... s-benefit/

Estaria curioso tener documento del concierto

Yo creo que lo grabarán fijo

Speaking to U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine, MACHINE HEAD guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn stated about the band's new material: "It sounds like MACHINE HEAD! It's definitely moving forward, which I feel like we're probably always gonna do.

"We're not a band that ever looks back. We do our thing and try to take the life experiences that we have and the musicianship that we've evolved and try to use it. Obviously, we have our sound and we have the MACHINE HEAD patented harmonics, the downtuned riffs and I sing the way I sing.

"I think Bob Dylan said it best: 'You just find new ways to say the same thing.'"

Speaking about some of the specific tracks and the lyrical themes covered on the new album, Flynn said: "I've got some pretty cool lyrics ready. There's a song called 'Night Of The Long Knives', and it's pretty fucked! It's about the Manson murders, and the lyrics are really dark and vicious.

"We've found some new twists to give to the MACHINE HEAD sound and some new fire and excitement."

Asked what the band's main aims were when they started composing music for the new CD, Flynn said: "Well, it's nice to try and have a plan, but music has a way of unravelling over time! [Laughs] You've just got to roll with it.

"With [2007's] 'The Blackening', I'd love to say I had this grand vision of nine- and 10-minute songs, but the first four songs we wrote were the four shorter songs on the record. For months, there was no indication whatsoever that we'd have 10-minute songs. That stuff came later.

"Human nature wants to control and dictate where things will go, but you can't. It won't let you! The more you try, the more it goes, 'Fuck you.' It's going some other way!"

Regarding whether the songwriting process comes more easily after more than two decades as a band, Flynn said: "I just try and do my thing. With this record in particular, I've tried to discipline myself more with routine, writing a little bit every day, but for months I was in a riff rut. Every riff I wrote fuckin' sucked! Then we took a two-week break and I was writing my Facebook journals about the 'Through The Ashes Of Empires' [MACHINE HEAD's 2003 album] story, and that cleared my head. At the end of those two weeks, the floodgates opened and all hell of riffs poured out. I was so stoked! This torrent of riffs, this molten hot lava, was at my fingertips. It's such a good feeling."

Flynn also revealed that MACHINE HEAD has "definitely got some ideas" for the artwork and imagery for the band's new album, but added: "It's weird, though, because who the fuck even buys albums anymore?

"An album cover is a necessary thing but for so many people it's justa little one-and-a-half-inch square on an iPhone.

"We're going to have a lot of worldwide special editions, so for the people who are still into that stuff, we'll have some next-level shit. Especially with our new label, Nuclear Blast, they can do all of that stuff. They're not afraid to do all these crazy, over-the-top special-edition things and big two-foot metal cases and all that.

"I'm a super-nerd collector and that shit rules to me!"

¿No tiene fecha el disco no?

Aun no.

Yo creo que lo grabarán fijo

De momento tenemos el bootleg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILeaJF0T ... iM&index=1

Cornucopia Intro
Supernaut - Tom Hunting
Children of the Grave - Tom Hunting, Phil Demmel
A National Acrobat - Tom Hunting
Symptom of the Universe - Suicide Silence guy on vocals
Iron Man - Chuck Billy
Electric Funeral - Rob Flynn singing, Vio-lence bassist
NIB - Rob Flynn singing, Vio-lence bassist
Lord of This World - Tom Hunting
Tomorrow's Dream - Bassist and singer from Spiral Arms
Changes - Bassist and singer from Spiral Arms
Sweet Leaf - SS guy vocals, Rob Trujillo
Into the Void - Matt Pike and Jeff Matz of HOF
Killing Yourself To Live - Tom Hunting
Paranoid - Gary Holt on guitar
Hole In the Sky - Chuck Billy, Trujillo
War Pigs - Chuck Billy, Trujillo
http://www.metalsetlists.com/showthread.php?t=24489

A mí Locust me pareció un disco de transición, pero, claro, como Burning Red y Supercharger también lo fueron en muchos sentidos, me espero tanto que saquen un primo hermano del último, como que sorprendan con algo un poco más reseñable.

Aunque a juzgar por esas declaraciones que apuntan más bien al costumbrismo, tampoco quiero ser demasiado optimista.

Y joder, ¿los crímenes de Charles Manson? Qué pesadilla. Será que no han pasado ya cosas en esta vida como para escribir canciones, hostia puta.