"Stop The Bleeding" featured guest vocals from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach, and was written and recorded just days after the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery. "My Hands Are Empty" was the latest in a line of singles to be released by MACHINE HEAD, which issued "Do Or Die" in October 2019, "Circle The Drain" in February, and the two-song digital single "Civil Unrest", consisting of "Stop The Bleeding" and "Bulletproof", in June. The song marked the first musical collaboration between Flynn and original "Burn My Eyes" guitarist Logan Mader in 24 years. In November, MACHINE HEAD released a new single, "My Hands Are Empty", via Nuclear Blast. It's been an opportunity to un-learn all the wrong shit and get an opportunity to do things right." With these acoustic shows, I've been back in contact with my old singing teacher to try and figure out why I can do a three-and-a-half hour MACHINE HEAD show, but this clean singing is kicking my ass. "For the first 20 years of my career, I never took singing lessons," he continued. The first three or four were horrible - I knew they were - but I knew that if I kept sucking for six weeks I would get past it. Last week I covered MUSE, TOOL and LYNYRD SKYNYRD. I take requests, and I try to play MACHINE HEAD songs that have never been played live acoustic. I try to learn two new songs every Friday. In 2020, it was named one of the 20 best metal albums of 1997 by Metal Hammer magazine.Īmid the coronavirus pandemic, Flynn has been staging "Acoustic Happy Hour" solo sessions every Friday, during which he has performed a number of MH tunes as well as covers of other artists' songs.įlynn told Kerrang! magazine about "Acoustic Happy Hour": "It's just basically a free show on Facebook. 138 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1997, and as of 2002 had sold over 115,000 copies in the United States.
Released in 1997, "The More Things Change." was MACHINE HEAD's last LP to feature original lead guitarist Logan Mader, and the first to feature drummer Dave McClain. You can now watch the video below.ġ:40:22 Walk All Over You (acoustic) (snippet) MACHINE HEAD's Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern held the latest "Electric Happy Hour" on Friday, March 19 during which they performed their second album, "The More Things Change.", in its entirety.