Machine Head recently spent some time in the studio with producer Zack Ohren (Aborted, Machine Head, etc.) working on a new album. The new album features drummer Navene Koperweis (Entheos, ex-Animals as Leaders) and is due out sometime this year. Now according to bassist Jared MacEachern in an interview with Primordial Radio, the new album is completely recorded, mixed, mastered, and ready to go.
MacEachern calls the album a "really great, heavy, beautiful, melodic, raging, thrashing ride" and also points out that it'll feature all three songs from the 2021 EP Arrows In Words From The Sky. So those tracks (which I personally dug), a 10 minute-plus epic, and who knows what else.
"I think that I was very aware from day one that Robb is the leader, he's the creative leader, the musical leader… We all have our inputs but I think it's always understood that ultimately the decision is up to him for how things go. But, yeah, I definitely made contributions and I feel great about those contributions and I'm asked about my opinion on certain things. But, like I said, I'm following his lead.
"It's a pretty — to use Robb's word… I believe he used the word 'colossal' the other day. It's a pretty big, epic-sounding album. We've been toying around with the order, but I've been listening, sitting down, taking the time to listen to it all the way through, and the way it goes, it's a ride — a really great, heavy, beautiful, melodic, raging, thrashing ride."
The new album will be their first full-length since Catharsis in 2018.
