01. Sudden Death 02. Public Enemy No. 1 03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?) 04. We The People 05. Guns, Drugs & Money 06. Never Dead 07. New World Order 08. Fast Lane 09. Black Swan 10. Wrecker 11. Millennium Of The Blind 12. Deadly Nightshade 13. 13
There are three songs on the album that were either previously released or incomplete demos that they finished and put on this album: NWO, Black Swan, and Millennium of the Blind.
"Truly iconic metal bands come along only once or twice in each generation, and if Metallica and Slayer are the groups who stand tallest from the 1980s, then surely Slipknot and Machine Head are their 1990s equivalents. All four came out of the blocks with planet-levelling intensity, endured periods off the creative boil and finally attained 'classic' status – but of the four, only Machine Head can honestly claim to still be making the best music of their lives. And make no mistake, that’s what Unto the Locust is: the most accomplished album that Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel, Adam Duce and Dave McClain have ever recorded, alongside their two career-framing records, Burn My Eyes and The Blackening. Like the former, Unto the Locust boasts a sonic palette overflowing with box-fresh ideas; like the latter, the album is a storm of complex arrangements and riffs, compiled by musicians who have gained absolute command of their vision. It’s a breathtaking work.
"Right from the off it’s obvious that Machine Head are out to take chances, and consequences be damned. The three-song 'I Am Hell' suite begins with a minute of choral vocals before breaking into one of the huge, fully leaded groove riffs the band have made their trademark. Predictable, you say? Well, less than three minutes later your jaw will have hit the floor, because Machine Head are now playing murderously fast thrash metal. Your favourite metal band, no matter who they are, would find it a challenge to match this immense song, not least because it devolves into harmonised acoustic guitars and strings.
"'Be Still And Know' follows up this epic opener with an amazing, Joe Satriani-style guitar loop loaded with delay. It's a beast: the only track under six minutes long on this vast album, and even then, only just. Shredders extraordinaire Robb and Phil are on fire, layering multiple guitar solos just like they did on 'Aesthetics of Hate' last time out.
"You've heard 'Locust' by now, and doesn't that central riff remind you of 'The Black Album'-era Metallica? But there are way too many ideas flying about for that reference to stick for long, with the song going in multiple directions. There's that huge, audience-levelling groove at 3:16 and 6:40, which you’ll play again and again until your ears bleed – and then there's Robb’s sweet, choirboy tenor. Told you they had a lot of ideas. This applies to 'This is the End,' too, a meaty thrash tune for the pit jockeys which features a classical guitar intro.
"The core of this fully evolved album is 'The Darkness Within,' which the Machine Head bandmembers have been reluctant to define in interviews – and with good reason. The first couple of minutes are Robb as Bob Dylan, with lines such as 'I'm just a broken man' ripped from him while the song builds with agonising slowness. This is emotion at its rawest, and utterly different from anything we’ve heard from Machine Head to date. After that, the upbeat 'Pearls Before the Swine' keeps things going at a ferocious pace. Unto the Locust winds up with 'Who We Are,' an experimental blend of children’s choral vocals, strings and an infectious chord sequence. At 4:13 there’s a maddeningly intense high-speed riff – but it only lasts 10 seconds, the swines…
"Cherish Unto the Locust: you’ll be living with it for a long time. There appears to be no end to Machine Head’s inspiration at this point: God only knows what they’ll come up with next."
More details regarding “Weightless,” the second album from groundbreaking progressive instrumentalist act, ANIMALS AS LEADERS, have surfaced. The endeavor was produced by drummer, Navene Koperweis and ANIMALS AS LEADERS, and mixed by guitarist Javier Reyes. The album marks the recording debut of Koperweis and Reyes with ANIMALS AS LEADERS. The album contains the following twelve tracks:
The track listing is as follows:
1. An Infinite Regression
2. Odessa
3. Somnarium
4. Earth Departure
5. Isolated Incidents
6. Do Not Go Gently
7. New Eden
8. Cylindrical Sea
9. Espera
10. To Lead You To An Overwhelming Question
11. Weightless
12. David “Weightless” is the act’s second release and will be released by Prosthetic Records in North America on Nov. 8, in mainland Europe on Nov. 4 and in the UK on Nov. 7. More information about “Weightless” will be available in the coming weeks.
METAL FOR THE MASSES VOLUME 9 HITS HOT TOPIC RETAILERS ON SEPTEMBER 13TH
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
On September 13th, the Century Media Family brings metal back to the masses with a specially priced triple-disc set. The compilation, Metal For The Masses Volume 9 features 48 tracks on three CDs at the low price of $8.99 The compilation will be available exclusively through all Hot Topic retail outlets nationwide and at www.hottopic.com
The noteworthy three disc set offers a large selection of fan-favorites including tracks from Suicide Silence, iwrestledabearonce, Vampires Everywhere!, All Shall Perish, Symphony X, Earth Crisis, Architects (UK), Belphegor and many others. The third disc is a special collection of classics, highlighting early songs from Despised Icon, In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Nevermore, and many more.
"We're very excited to be putting out the 9th installment of the Metal For The Masses series," says Century Media President, Don Robertson. "This low priced Hot Topic exclusive has been a very important sampler of our artists for the last decade and has proven to be a great way to give the metal community a chance to discover new music."
The full track listing can be seen below.
Disc One (The Century Family) 1 - Winds of Plague - California 2 - Vampires Everywhere! - Carnage At The Castle 3 - Suicide Silence - You Only Live Once 4 - Architects (UK) - Day In Day Out 5 - iwrestledabearonce - Karate Nipples 6 - Demolisher - Two Sided Coin 7 - Arsonists Get All The Girls - Will Someone Please Turn Down the Ocean 8 - Earth Crisis - Total War 9 - Suffer Well - For Today, For Yesterday, For Everyday 10 - The Devastated - The Devil's Messenger 11 - Arch Enemy - Bloodstained Cross 12 - Turisas - The Great Escape 13 - Deicide - How Can You Call Yourself a God? 14 - 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Vindicator 15 - TesseracT - Eden
Disc Two (Nuclear Blast America) 1 - Decapitated - Homo Sum 2 - All Shall Perish - There's Nothing Left 3 - Symphony X - The End Of Innocence 4 - Sepultura - Kairos 5 - Lock Up - Brethren Of The Pentagram 6 - Belphegor - Impaled Upon The Tongue Of Satan 7 - Hell - On Earth As It Is In Hell 8 - Destruction - Hate Is My Fuel 9 - World Under Blood - God Among The Waste 10 - Korpiklaani - Tequila 11 - Agnostic Front - My Life My Way 12 - Graveyard - Ain't Fit To Live Here 13 - While Heaven Wept - Destroyer Of Solace 14 - Before The Dawn - Deathstar 15 - Sylosis - Empyreal 16 - Pain - Dirty Woman 17 - Origin - Expulsion of Fury 18 - Amorphis - You I Need 19 - Scar Symmetry - Extinction Mantra
Disc Three (Classics from The Century Family) 1 - Arch Enemy - Taking Back My Soul 2 - Dark Tranquility - Through Smudged Lenses 3 - Despised Icon - Retina 4 - Eyehategod - 30$ Bag 5 - God Forbid - Precious Lie 6 - In This Moment - Daddy's Fallen Angel 7 - iwrestledabearonce - I'm Cold and There Are Wolves After Me 8 - Lacuna Coil - Heaven's a Lie 9 - Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come 10 - Shadows Fall - Idle Hands 11 - Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm 12 - Suicide Silence - The Disease 13 - Turisas - The Dnieper Rapids 14 - Winds of Plague - One Body Too Many
How? I think it's really clever. All thirteen Megadeth albums are represented at the bottom, and the thirteen candles.....much better cover than Endgame and UA, imo. And it has Vic back on it.
03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
Also, I thought Sudden Death was only for Guitar Hero.
ALSO, that album artwork.....why?
Dave said a while back that song would be on there.
Comments
01. Sudden Death
02. Public Enemy No. 1
03. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
04. We The People
05. Guns, Drugs & Money
06. Never Dead
07. New World Order
08. Fast Lane
09. Black Swan
10. Wrecker
11. Millennium Of The Blind
12. Deadly Nightshade
13. 13
From the official forum:
Also, I thought Sudden Death was only for Guitar Hero.
ALSO, that album artwork.....why?
"Right from the off it’s obvious that Machine Head are out to take chances, and consequences be damned. The three-song 'I Am Hell' suite begins with a minute of choral vocals before breaking into one of the huge, fully leaded groove riffs the band have made their trademark. Predictable, you say? Well, less than three minutes later your jaw will have hit the floor, because Machine Head are now playing murderously fast thrash metal. Your favourite metal band, no matter who they are, would find it a challenge to match this immense song, not least because it devolves into harmonised acoustic guitars and strings.
"'Be Still And Know' follows up this epic opener with an amazing, Joe Satriani-style guitar loop loaded with delay. It's a beast: the only track under six minutes long on this vast album, and even then, only just. Shredders extraordinaire Robb and Phil are on fire, layering multiple guitar solos just like they did on 'Aesthetics of Hate' last time out.
"You've heard 'Locust' by now, and doesn't that central riff remind you of 'The Black Album'-era Metallica? But there are way too many ideas flying about for that reference to stick for long, with the song going in multiple directions. There's that huge, audience-levelling groove at 3:16 and 6:40, which you’ll play again and again until your ears bleed – and then there's Robb’s sweet, choirboy tenor. Told you they had a lot of ideas. This applies to 'This is the End,' too, a meaty thrash tune for the pit jockeys which features a classical guitar intro.
"The core of this fully evolved album is 'The Darkness Within,' which the Machine Head bandmembers have been reluctant to define in interviews – and with good reason. The first couple of minutes are Robb as Bob Dylan, with lines such as 'I'm just a broken man' ripped from him while the song builds with agonising slowness. This is emotion at its rawest, and utterly different from anything we’ve heard from Machine Head to date. After that, the upbeat 'Pearls Before the Swine' keeps things going at a ferocious pace. Unto the Locust winds up with 'Who We Are,' an experimental blend of children’s choral vocals, strings and an infectious chord sequence. At 4:13 there’s a maddeningly intense high-speed riff – but it only lasts 10 seconds, the swines…
"Cherish Unto the Locust: you’ll be living with it for a long time. There appears to be no end to Machine Head’s inspiration at this point: God only knows what they’ll come up with next."
Fuck i can't wait for this album.
"if Metallica and Slayer are the groups who stand tallest from the 1980s, then surely Slipknot and Machine Head are their 1990s equivalents."
The track listing is as follows:
1. An Infinite Regression
2. Odessa
3. Somnarium
4. Earth Departure
5. Isolated Incidents
6. Do Not Go Gently
7. New Eden
8. Cylindrical Sea
9. Espera
10. To Lead You To An Overwhelming Question
11. Weightless
12. David
“Weightless” is the act’s second release and will be released by Prosthetic Records in North America on Nov. 8, in mainland Europe on Nov. 4 and in the UK on Nov. 7. More information about “Weightless” will be available in the coming weeks.
1. Natural Causes
2. Shifting Skies Like Nothing
3. For New Creation
4. The Signal
5. Evspañol
6. Non-Linear Parallels
7. Silent Betrayal
8. Interface
9. Boundless Intent Part 3
10. Sensory Endeavour
11. Transpiration
12. Undivided
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
On September 13th, the Century Media Family brings metal back to the masses with a specially priced triple-disc set. The compilation, Metal For The Masses Volume 9 features 48 tracks on three CDs at the low price of $8.99 The compilation will be available exclusively through all Hot Topic retail outlets nationwide and at www.hottopic.com
The noteworthy three disc set offers a large selection of fan-favorites including tracks from Suicide Silence, iwrestledabearonce, Vampires Everywhere!, All Shall Perish, Symphony X, Earth Crisis, Architects (UK), Belphegor and many others. The third disc is a special collection of classics, highlighting early songs from Despised Icon, In This Moment, Lacuna Coil, Nevermore, and many more.
"We're very excited to be putting out the 9th installment of the Metal For The Masses series," says Century Media President, Don Robertson. "This low priced Hot Topic exclusive has been a very important sampler of our artists for the last decade and has proven to be a great way to give the metal community a chance to discover new music."
The full track listing can be seen below.
Disc One (The Century Family)
1 - Winds of Plague - California
2 - Vampires Everywhere! - Carnage At The Castle
3 - Suicide Silence - You Only Live Once
4 - Architects (UK) - Day In Day Out
5 - iwrestledabearonce - Karate Nipples
6 - Demolisher - Two Sided Coin
7 - Arsonists Get All The Girls - Will Someone Please Turn Down the Ocean
8 - Earth Crisis - Total War
9 - Suffer Well - For Today, For Yesterday, For Everyday
10 - The Devastated - The Devil's Messenger
11 - Arch Enemy - Bloodstained Cross
12 - Turisas - The Great Escape
13 - Deicide - How Can You Call Yourself a God?
14 - 7 Horns 7 Eyes - Vindicator
15 - TesseracT - Eden
Disc Two (Nuclear Blast America)
1 - Decapitated - Homo Sum
2 - All Shall Perish - There's Nothing Left
3 - Symphony X - The End Of Innocence
4 - Sepultura - Kairos
5 - Lock Up - Brethren Of The Pentagram
6 - Belphegor - Impaled Upon The Tongue Of Satan
7 - Hell - On Earth As It Is In Hell
8 - Destruction - Hate Is My Fuel
9 - World Under Blood - God Among The Waste
10 - Korpiklaani - Tequila
11 - Agnostic Front - My Life My Way
12 - Graveyard - Ain't Fit To Live Here
13 - While Heaven Wept - Destroyer Of Solace
14 - Before The Dawn - Deathstar
15 - Sylosis - Empyreal
16 - Pain - Dirty Woman
17 - Origin - Expulsion of Fury
18 - Amorphis - You I Need
19 - Scar Symmetry - Extinction Mantra
Disc Three (Classics from The Century Family)
1 - Arch Enemy - Taking Back My Soul
2 - Dark Tranquility - Through Smudged Lenses
3 - Despised Icon - Retina
4 - Eyehategod - 30$ Bag
5 - God Forbid - Precious Lie
6 - In This Moment - Daddy's Fallen Angel
7 - iwrestledabearonce - I'm Cold and There Are Wolves After Me
8 - Lacuna Coil - Heaven's a Lie
9 - Nevermore - The River Dragon Has Come
10 - Shadows Fall - Idle Hands
11 - Strapping Young Lad - Shitstorm
12 - Suicide Silence - The Disease
13 - Turisas - The Dnieper Rapids
14 - Winds of Plague - One Body Too Many