By Machine Head
Back in June 2021, Robb and Jared went into the studio to demo some new ideas for the album. With not a whole lot to track things were off to a slow start, but eventually ideas started to flow. Watch the multi-part journey of Machine Head's as-yet-untitled 10th album.
By Machine Head
Joining in Metallica’s 40th anniversary celebrations, the boiz paid tribute to their mighty Bay Area brethren with an Xmas setlist that spread holiday cheerz and beerz everywhere.
By Machine Head
As our Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale comes to a close, we wanted to take a moment to express our sincere heavy metal gratitude to the Head Cases such as yourself for shopping with us. We wanted to thank you for sharing your enthusiasm for our premium merchandise and most of all continuing to support our music, our art, and the culture we've created around it.
You may be aware that businesses all over the country are experiencing supply-chain disruptions and shortages due to the ongoing pandemic. Here at Ten Ton Trading Co., we're doing our best to ensure our customers’ orders are delivered in a timely manner. We strongly recommend that you get your order in as early as possible to avoid missing out on our incredible BFCM deals.
These savings will end at midnight PST, so make sure to place your orders soon. Please be aware that our shipping dept. will be closed from Dec 16th until Jan 5th. Orders placed during this time will ship after Jan 5th, 2022.
As we wind down the year, we hope that the Head Cases of the world all have an awesome, beer-drenched, heavy metal holiday season.
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By Machine Head
Join the boyz for a barn storming trip down memory lane where they celebrate the seventh anniversary of Bloodstone & Diamonds with a full throttle, in original running order play through. Amongst the many highlights are live show regulars like "Now We Die" and "Killers & Kings", the always epic "Sail Into the Black", the bringer of the brown note "Beneath the Silt" alongside outright rarities such as "Eyes Of The Dead" and "Damage Inside".
Beers Up!!🍻
By Machine Head
MACHINE HEAD & AMON AMARTH ANNOUNCE UK/EU ARENA TOUR FOR 2022
Featuring Special Guests, THE HALO EFFECT
Tickets Available Here At 10am Friday 5th November
Prepare for the most monumental metal tour of 2022!! Two of the world’s most revered heavy bands, Bay Area metal icons MACHINE HEAD and Sweden’s Viking metal overlords AMON AMARTH are teaming up for a colossal co-headline 'Vikings And Lionhearts' arena tour set to rampage across Europe in September & October 2022.
Joining the metallic pairing to open the show are THE HALO EFFECT, a new band featuring five luminaries of Swedish melodic death metal and pioneers of the genre; Peter Iwers, Daniel Svensson, Jesper Stromblad, Niclas Englin and Mikael Stanne.
Tickets go on general sale here on Friday 5th November at 10am local time, with artist & venue pre-sales available from 10am Wednesday 3rd November and Live Nation’s pre-sale at 10am on Thursday 4th. MACHINE HEAD will close the show on all UK dates. Check out the trailer below.
MACHINE HEAD frontman, Robb Flynn declares; “Head Cases and Lionhearts rejoice! It is with great pleasure we announce our triumphant return to your land to crush skulls, pummel circle pits, and deplete your beer supply!! Only this time we will not be alone. That’s right. For the first time in nearly a decade Machine Head will be forgoing our usual “evenings with…” to join forces with our battle-hardened brothers in the all-powerful Amon Amarth, plus their fellow countrymen, Halo Effect. This absolute monster of a tour will kick off Autumn 2022 and will be the most devastating night of your metal lives. So get ready to raise your fists, raise your glasses, and bang your heads with us at the heaviest tour of the year! No one can resist the pure power of this epic alliance. We are coming for you!”
AMON AMARTH frontman Johan Hegg is equally looking forward to it, stating: “Vikings, we are called to raid again! They said it couldn’t be done, but epic measures must be taken in these turbulent times. Amon Amarth is joining forces with our long-time lion-hearted friends in the almighty Machine Head to carve a path of destruction across Europe next Autumn. Your heathen souls must witness the full display of production by both bands for what will be the most monumental metal event of the year. Joining the plunder will be Sweden’s The Halo Effect who absolutely embody the spirit of the legendary Gothenburg sound. Keep an eye out for more news from us, as it’s almost time to grab your oars and row to victory. Stay safe, stay strong and raise your horns!”
Similarly thrilled are THE HALO EFFECT, who inform us, “We are incredibly excited to announce that we will present this new band of ours on stages throughout Europe supporting the amazing Machine Head and Amon Amarth this fall. Teaming up with two of the most respected and seasoned bands in the world of metal will be the perfect way to show what we are all about. See you in the front row!”
VIKINGS & LIONHEARTS TOUR DATES AS FOLLOWS
SEPTEMBER
08th NOTTINGHAM, Arena
09th CARDIFF, Arena
10th LONDON, Wembley Arena
12th MANCHESTER, Arena
13th DUBLIN, 3 Arena
16th ZURICH, Hallenstadion
17th VIENNA, Stadthalle
18th KRAKOW, Tauron Arena
20th TALLINN, Saku Arena
21st HELSINKI, Ice Hall
23rd OSLO, Spektrum
24th STOCKHOLM, Hovet
26th COPENHAGEN, Forum Black Box
27th HAMBURG, Barclays Arena
28th FRANKFURT, Festhalle
30th OBERHAUSEN, König Pilsener Arena
OCTOBER
01st BERLIN, Velodrom
02nd AMSTERDAM, Afas Live
04th MILANO, Lorenzini District
06th BARCELONA, Sant Jordi
07th MADRID, Vistalegre
08th LA CORUNA, Coliseum
09th LISBON, Campo Pequeno
12th PARIS, Zenith
14th MUNICH, Olympiahalle
15th LEIPZIG, Arena
16th PRAGUE, Tipsport Arena
18th BUDAPEST, Barba Negra
20th ESCH SUR ALZETTE, Rockhal
21st BRUSSELS, Forest National
22nd STUTTGART, Schleyerhalle
By Machine Head
Join the boyz as they celebrate the 18th anniversary of "Through the Ashes of Empires" with full, in-order, play thru of the album's 11 original tracks and the blistering cover of Metallica's "Battery" that was recorded during the same tour cycle for a Kerrang! tribute compilation
You can expect to hear crushing versions of live set staples "Imperium" and "Bite the Bullet" alongside tracks like "In the Presence of My Enemies", "Vim", which is performed for the first time in 16 years, and "All Falls Down", which hasn't been heard outside of a soundcheck since 2010. A ferocious rock block of "Become the Firestorm", "Rotten" and the aforementioned "Battery" cover caps off the electric part of Happy Hour before traditional acoustic closer "Darkness Within".
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By Machine Head
Members of Metallica, Korn, Slayer, System Of A Down, Anthrax, Five Finger Death Punch, Testament, Exodus, Behemoth, Lamb Of God, Halestorm, Trivium, Fear Factory, Kreator, Hatebreed, Death Angel, Black Stone Cherry, Fit For An Autopsy, and Repentance have gotten together to congratulate Machine Head on the 30 year anniversary of the band.
On October 12th, 1991 at the Oakland, CA "Day On The Green" concert, a young Robb Flynn stood watching Metallica perform the “Black” album for it's first time and made the decision to start and mastermind his own band. Originally intended to be just a side project, after paying his dues in the underground Bay Area Thrash scene as lead guitarist in both Forbidden and Vio-Lence, by February '92 Machine Head would become Flynn's full-time project and under his stewardship grew to become a worldwide force in metal.
Now some thirty years later, Machine Head are recognized as one of metal's most influential and pioneering bands with countless sold out world tours, gold and silver records, Grammy nominations, hundreds of millions of streams and over 4 million records sold under their belt, and that's without even mentioning their legions of devoted fans worldwide, affectionately known as 'Head Cases’.
Adds singer/guitarist Robb Flynn, “thank you so much to the friends, tour-mates, and brothers and sisters in metal, that contributed to this, we are beyond grateful, genuinely humbled, and honored by your words. To all the band members past and present who contributed riffs, ideas, melodies and lyrics, thank you for everything you brought and bring to the table. To Tony Costanza, who I wish was here to celebrate this moment with us, rest in power. Massive respect to the Head Cases that have fought side-by side with us, stood with us through thick and thin, and believed for 30 years!! We love you crazy motherfuckers!”
CELEBRATE 30 YEARS OF MACHINE HEAD WITH THIS
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"DAY ON THE GREEN" FLYERS AND TICKET STUBS
By Machine Head
Robb and Jared celebrate the 20th anniversary of our fourth studio album for this week's Electric Happy Hour in fine style playing through all the album's songs. With many tracks receiving their first outing since Supercharger's tour cycle nineteen to twenty years ago (the much requested "White Knuckle Blackout" and "American High"), others given their live debuts ("Kick You When You're Down" and "Nausea") and a mighty acoustic reinterpretation of Deafening Silence, this is a DO NOT MISS or MUST WATCH AGAIN edition of Electric Happy Hour!
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