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MACHINE HEAD "The Blackening" Reviews
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AZRating: 6.2
Users rating: 10.0 |
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Release: 27 Mar 2007
Label: Roadrunner Records
Genre: Metal
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| MusicOMH.com |
Rating: 10.0 |
It's been three years since Machine Head effectively returned to metal. But with the release of Through the Ashes of Empires, this band didn't just meet contractual obligations, they 'returned' to the glory of the band they once were; to the realms of proper metal. If Imperium, Descend the Shades of Night and Vim were able to reenlist the support of many thousand fans to the Church of The Ten Ton Hammer, The Blackening is undoubtedly its New Testament.
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| Sputnikmusic.com |
Rating: 5.6 |
With their sixth studio effort, Machine Head releases one of the year's most overrated albums. Combining stale riffs, horrendous performances, and insipid song writing, The Blackening will likely go down as one of 2007's worst releases. Avoid if you can.
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| NME |
Rating: 5.0 |
Sixth album 'The Blackening' is no return to form, yet the longer songs on the record (many clock in at over 10 minutes and sound like the bit in '80s horror films when somebody gets stabbed through the head) are intriguing works of progressive metal that suggest they've become aware of the genius of Mastodon. Yet, that a band's new record makes you want to dig out their
12-year-old debut, is hardly a great thing.
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| RollingStone |
Rating: 4.0 |
The Blackening features more of the band's thrash-metal roots (that's good), along with a lot of songs that push past the nine-minute mark (bad). "A Farewell to Arms" is a creepy ten-minute opus that sounds like three Load-era Metallica outtakes strung together. Dudes: Shorten the songs, for the troops.
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Users comments
| JerichoSmith |
Rating: 10.0 |
I didn't have very high hopes for this album but it just blew my mind away, gotta give Machine Head some respect for that. |
| Reaper |
Rating: 10.0 |
just awesome album that surely deserves to be the no.1 release for 2007...quality and passion perfectly matched in all of the songs.. |
| MH Comeback |
Rating: 10.0 |
Excellent record. Reminds me of Metallica´s heyday (albums like Master of Puppets and ...And Justice for All) in the way the songs are epic, metal journeys, and at the same time very melodious. The guitar harmonies are wonderful, awesome, aweinspiring, crushing... etc. Easily their greatest work in my opinion. |
| Disposable Hero |
Rating: 10.0 |
I am amazed by some of the so called professional reviewers, writing for respected music magazines etc. The Blackening is incredible. Simple as that. They have completely missed the point. If you are a metal fan. But it. You will not be disappointed. Alongside Master of Puppets, Blood Mountain and Vulgar Display of Power in my opinion. |
| Ozena |
Rating: 10.0 |
Perfect. The perfect metal release. Not since EARLY Metallica, Exodus, Overkill, etc has a band soared so high in metal. No one will be able to touch this cd this year. Machine Head conquered all. |
| Razors-And-Roses |
Rating: 10.0 |
Despite their almost completely unbelievable downfall before they produced Through the Ashes of Empires, Machine Head have managed incredibly well and after working for over a year on this mind-blowingly technical album.
The incredible guitar work produced from no less than the legendary Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel produces the most amazing atmosphere that any pure metal head can but pray for.
Robb’s incredible voice brings a totally new and different curve to the sound that Machine Head seem to be so easily capable to produce, which makes them so unique in todays fast paced and ever changing music society today.
The mood is constantly swinging from hard, fast thrash techniques, to sweet, melodic vocals and tunes which again, gives an entire twist to the music that from the very beginning of the album right the way to the very end of the 56 minutes that takes the listener on a journey through the incredible world of metal and one of its finer bands.
On the special edition you receive an extra track on the CD, this track is called Battery, sound familiar? Well it should do, as this is no less than the opening track on Metallica’s breakthrough album, ‘Master of Puppets’. A while ago, when KERRANG released a copy of Master of Puppets free in one of their issues, however they used different bands to re-do each song on the original album, Trivium where lucky enough to do Master of Puppets as their song to re-master,. And its as I have always said, you can never beat the original, and i was right, it was played in completely the wrong tuning and as hard as Matt Heafy tried, he just couldn’t match up to the legendary James Hetfield.
Unfortunately, it is the same for ‘Battery’ on Machine Heads latest album, its close, but just no where near as good as the original.
This is the peak of machine heads career and fuck me have they made it a historical land mark in the history of metal.
For this is one album that is sure to be up there with Slayers Reign in Blood or Metallicas Master of Puppets.
Machine Heads most incredible and outstanding albums yet, so please, welcome into your life one of the greatest music genres in the worlds, this, is , METAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Noname |
Rating: 10.0 |
I totally agree with reaper. One of the best albums in the last years!!! I am amazed! This is fucking metal!!! And i wonder if the guy from Rolling Stone who gave it a 4 knows what metal is!!! Better keep on listening to Britney... |
| MoFo |
Rating: 10.0 |
Absolutely epic!!!! A true masterpiece that gets better with each listen. Can't think of a better metal album in my collection of 300 cds. |
| Flavaflav |
Rating: 10.0 |
The old crusty buggers at NME and Rolling Stone shouldn't be allowed to review this album - the crushing riffs on this album will make their false teeth fall out. Long live Machine Head! |
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