Machinehead - The Blackening

Dracata · 9 Oct 2008 at 12:53

Whats your view? Love it? Hate it?

I bought it when it came out but i've only just got around to listening, it's growing on me but it just seems missing a certain.. something.

Shamikebab · 9 Oct 2008 at 12:59

love it, superb live as well.

Johno please? · 9 Oct 2008 at 13:36

Its missing nothing, its pretty much modern metal perfection.

I'm not saying its my favourite album, but none the less it is fantastic.

gillywibble · 9 Oct 2008 at 14:14

Great album. I wouldn't rate it as their absolute best but there's some stonking tracks on there.

Robosapien · 9 Oct 2008 at 14:45

Aesthetics of Hate, Beautiful Mourning (despite 'weird' drums at the start) and Wolves are stunning. Not sure about the album as a whole though...

Dracata · 9 Oct 2008 at 15:24

Robosapien said:
Aesthetics of Hate, Beautiful Mourning (despite 'weird' drums at the start) and Wolves are stunning. Not sure about the album as a whole though...

I'd agree. I think people got the wrong impression from my post, I really like the album and would say it's very good on the whole, I just can't go as far as saying it's "perfect".

Beerguzzler · 9 Oct 2008 at 16:50

I like it, but I think some of the songs have bits that are rehashes of their older songs. Too many boring grinding riffs aswell, although I really like A Fairwell to Arms, Halo and Asthetis of Hate. Better than the other albums bar Burn my Eyes.

Grandmaster Fap! · 9 Oct 2008 at 16:59

Best album they've done since their debut...which is a ******* masterpiece tbh

GeezerButler · 9 Oct 2008 at 23:04

IMO The Blackening and Burn My Eyes are both very good records.

jbstans · 10 Oct 2008 at 01:41

I don't know what it is about Machine Head but I just don't quite get them. I find their music boring for some reason. Even though I like a few of their songs and theoretically their music ticks all the boxes on my list of musical requirements it just doesn't quite hit the spot.

I got the Blackening off iTunes on the back of some epic reviews and after going to the Black Crusade tour and seeing how everyone was suddenly MENTALLY in to machine head, almost slayer-esque fanaticism.

I think it's the atmospheric passages which I find to be predictable and uninteresting, and the moping quality of the music. I don't deny that Flynn was severely mistreated but I can only listen to so much wallowing miserable sludgey resentment.

What am I missing about them that everyone else gets? :confused: