It's been over 20 years since "Machine Head”Appeared alongside“ Slayer ”for the first time in the Z7. Under the motto “An Evening with Machine Head” the Bay Area Metal titans celebrated their band anniversary on October 5th in Pratteln. What was already more than successful in the US&A has now brought the band to the old continent - without support bands, but with an extensive, career-wide setlist. As frontman Robb Flynn announced on stage, they deliberately did not take the opening act with them and what the fans were offered was top-quality metal, because the guys from Oakland let it rip for over two hours and shake the venerable Z7 to the ground! The crazier the crowd, the longer the evening! Rob Flynn: "We could have played the whole night, the crowd was so crazy!"

An Epic Night with Machine Fucking Head!

In November 1994, Machine Head performed alongside Slayer for the first time in the Z7, which was roughly equivalent to the first metal concert ever in the sacred walls of the concert factory! Since then the band from Oakland, California, which was founded in 1991, has undergone a number of changes without, however, sacrificing quality. On the contrary, the longer the band exists, the better it gets! Front man Robert Flynn and his troupe have succeeded in staying true to their line and constantly developing and perfecting the band's own style of music with influences from Thrash and Groove Metal! In November 2014 Machine Head presented their eighth studio album “Bloodstone & Diamonds” to their Swiss fans in the 457 complex in Zurich. Not even a year later they are back and even surpass the great show from last year! As part of their “An Evening with” tour, the Americans forego supporting acts entirely. Instead, their die-hard fans came on October 5, 2015 in the sold out Z7 to enjoy an extensive set that was extended to all epochs and left absolutely nothing to be desired!

An Epic Night with Machine Fucking Head!

A few years ago the “Guardian” wrote that Machine Head was mainstream metal, but the term was probably less triggered by the band's musical direction than - basically - the number of fans and albums sold. Stylistically, Machine Head have never been more experimental, more varied and - note the dramatic structure of the new pieces - more ambitious. The concert was like traveling back in time through the dark caves of the MH repertoire. Of course, old classics such as “Beautiful Mourning”, “Davidian”, “Old”, “Ten Ton Hammer” or “Aesthetics of Hate” found their place, as well as songs from their current album “Bloodstone & Diamonds” or from the absolute hammer album “Locust”. New songs like “Now We Die”, “Killers And Kings”, “Game Over” or “Darkness Within” seemed to meet with great enthusiasm, even among long-established fans. Understandable, I think, because this band can do something that very few can: They get better with every album!

Machine Head - Live @ Ray Just Arena, Moscow 01.09.2015/XNUMX/XNUMX (Full Show)
Machine Head - Live @ Ray Just Arena, Moscow 01.09.2015/XNUMX/XNUMX (Full Show)

Machine Head are known to play long sets for their fans anyway - with an emphasis on “for their fans”. Flynn and Co. are obviously fed up with playing in front of “foreign audiences”: “We will no longer try to have a good time with people who don't know who we are. When Machine Head throw a party, we don't want "strangers" there. This is about us and you out there, the die-hard fans, the crazy, the damned “undesirables”! We are not interested in the others. We are here and we are not going away. Anyone who wants to participate knows where to find us. For the time being, or maybe even forever, we've finished trying to reach these other people, ”the band said in an epic Facebook post. Who knows Machine Head knows exactly what a live show à la Machine Head means: KILLER !!! Countless “headbang motherfuckers”, distorted guitar sounds without end, a Robb Flynn in ecstasy and a merciless wall of the best metal leave no neck resting. At the introduction of “Darkness Within” the indestructible Mr. Flynn spoke about what music means to him. How much power music has on him and the fact that, especially in his younger years, he often felt understood by the music of his idols. Such moments at concerts like this are his elixir of life and the reason why he gets up every day. The music manages to fill every single cell with passion and tells a lot more than 1000 empty words. Also remembered Rob at the first concert with Slayer and how he met Jeff Hanneman in the then still new concert factory Z7 in Pratteln:

Slayer Jeff Hanneman Machine Head Robb Flynn

I can remember some good hangs with him though. The first was in Basel, Switzerland back in November, 1994 when Machine Head was main support to Slayer on the Divine Intervention tour. It was one of those shows were something so random happens it just never leaves you, in this case, the show was sponsored by Chesterfield cigarettes and every kid entering the show got 2 free packs of smokes. I've never seen so much smoke in a venue in my life. I remember walking onstage and yelling at our roadie / everything-guy Mike Scum, "Dude, turn off the fuckin 'smoke machine", he said "Yooooo, it's not the smoke machine bro, it's the cigarettes!" It was damn near impossible to breath onstage. After the show we were hanging backstage and Jeff walked back, we started bitching about the crazy cigarette show, and he invited me back to the dressing room to grab a beer, we sat down and chatted for a while, and then I went all Slayer -nerd on him and started grilling him on what songs he wrote.

Me: "Who wrote Angel Of Death?"
Jeff: "I did"
Me: "Lyrics too?"
Jeff: "Yep"
Me: "Reign In Blood?"
Jeff: "Me"
Me: "Dead Skin Mask?"
Jeff: "Yep"
Me: "South Of Heaven?"
Jeff: "Me"
Me: "Black Magic?"
Jeff: "You know it"
Me: "Hell Awaits?"
Jeff: "Yep"

On and on it went, that one wrote both the music and lyrics to a large goddamn portion of my favorite Slayer songs. He was a huge influence on my songwriting growing up in particular with arrangements and the bold use of key changes. The one thing Slayer band always had over so many other bands is they were all over the guitar neck when it came to key changes. Leads would be in some of the most random keys ever, but somehow it made it all that much more frantic, and when the chorus kicked back in, Boom! Set up perfectly. He was one of the few metal heads I met who never really got into Pantera, he told me he “liked some stuff”, but thought they we're “too bluesy at times”, and that he “liked more evil notes or sad riffs ”

An Epic Night with Machine Fucking Head!

In addition to such sympathetic announcements and memories from the band's old days, Machine Head showed from the first song that they are the current kings of trash metal. The band has been around for 21 years now and has won the hearts of fans with hits like “Imperium”, “Helo” or “Old”. And what the metal titans offered in an almost two and a half hour show was simply great! Everyone knows that these are not empty words, which Machine Head has already experienced on stage. It just doesn't get any better, more honest or more powerful! As it should be, the anthem “Halo” has been saved for last. That gave the partying crowd the rest. Over 2 1/2 hours full of skull-splitting metal hymns, singalongs and atmospheric pieces! Just awesome! Just MACHINE * FUCKING * HEAD! With their “An Evening With” tour, the Bay Area Metal titans dared to do something that no band before them had the courage to do, they played a whole evening without any support. The management's concerns that no one would want to listen to a single metal band for an entire evening was easily dispelled by Machine Head.

An Epic Night with Machine Fucking Head!

Last but not least, the guys stand for hardness, tempo, groove, musical uncompromisingness with sometimes almost brutal sounds and are able to easily bring the fans to ecstasy for a whole evening - it would have been more than the 2 1/2 hours allowed to! What was thrown around the ears of the fans was simply terrific and will not be so easy to top! Apparently Rob and his men liked the format “An evening with…” and will therefore return to Europe's stages in February / March of the coming year and if possible I will do this absolutely great show again! “We're really excited about playing longer sets, throwing in a few deep parts and making everything our world,” explains singer Robb Flynn. A really cool decision - after all, a band like Machine Head, which has now headliner status, can earn a lot of money at festivals with comparatively short appearances. So instead two-hour concerts for hardcore fans in rather manageable halls? Respect guys! And thank you for that! You are great! Just two hours of Fucking Machine Head! It couldn't be better!

setlist:

  1. Empire
  2. Beautiful mourning
  3. Now We Die
  4. Bite the Bullet
  5. locust
  6. From This Day
  7. Ten Ton Hammer
  8. This Is the End
  9. In Comes the Flood
  10. The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
  11. Crashing Around You
  12. Darkness within
  13. Declaration
  14. Bulldozer
  15. Killers & Kings
  16. Davidian
  17. A Farewell to Arms (First time played live since 2010)
  18. Take Me Through the Fire
  19. Aesthetics of Hate
  20. Game Over
  21. Old
  22. Halo

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