It's no secret Machine Head are in the studio recording their new album (at Green Day's studio) to be released later this year. It's also no secret that vocalist and guitarist Robb Flynn feels super passionate about the new material. Passion makes for a solid final product!
The band took to Facebook to announce the solid progress they've been making on the new record and the comparisons he draws certainly sound awesome. Machine Head sounding like Judas Priest? Awesome! Flynn also admits his own limitations as a musician by citing a song that couldn't be played up to tempo without sounding unnatural. That song probably sucked anyway and I didn't even want to hear it.
On a serious note, if the band keep up the direction they've been going in over the past few years then we're absolutely in for an amazing record!
Check out Flynn's full ramblings below.
"As I step off the insane recording treadmill I've been on for a few weeks, one thing is for certain, it's all about slow and steady progress. I mean, I really wish I had more of an exciting update to give you, but I've been slammed recording guitars, laying down vocals, and working on some killer packaging ideas with the Nuclear Blast crew.
"Less than a week before we got into JingleTown, we finished a pair of songs, one of which was literally not even an idea the week previous. Phil [Demmel, guitar] brought in some great, GREAT stuff at the 11th hour and we were able to turn it into a really cool song with the working title of 'Sharkbite Days Revisited'. The other song, formerly known as 'Blazing Saddles', just wasn't working. Even though it had some cool parts, it was just too goddamned hard to play and make it sound natural, so we back-burnered it for a while. It was the type of song where we finally realized our mortality, LOL! One of those 'dammit, I can't play this fast at my age anymore' kind of moments! But it was a song that came at a time when we needed a good kick in the ass, and it completely helped break my writer's block. It was the crack in the dam, and after that, all hell flowed. So if anything, it served its purpose well!
"So on the second to last day of rehearsals, [Dave] McClain [drums] and I deconstructed 'Blazing Saddles', and then reconstructed it into a far simpler structure, and it's fuckin' rockin'! Less of a Slayer/Slipknot vibe, and more of a Screaming For Vengeance-era Judas Priest feel to it. Appropriately, it has now been given the working title 'Simmering Saddles'.
"I laid down some scratch vocal ideas on the 3 'newest' tunes, and made some huge progress on the song (working title: 'Riffnado'). I can already tell it's gonna be really cool.
"So that's about it for now. I know it doesn't look like much, but as my engineer Juan says, 'There some blood on the board there' (pic below)."
