Machine Head are heading back to Australia in July in support of their latest album ‘‘ which was released earlier this year. The tour follows a completely sold out Australia run in 2015 held in theatres across the country in what’s dubbed as ‘An Evening With Machine Head’ which features nothing but the Northern California metal giants for 3 hours of pure metal. Astroworld 2004 full. We talk to frontman Robb Flynn ahead of the tour to discuss these shows as well as the controversial new album. Just to give a little back story on my history with Machine Head, I actually discovered the band way back in 1993 before the release of that epic debut album “Burn My Eyes”. Now keep in mind this was before the internet was really a thing and certainly way before digital downloading and streaming of music was around but somehow I managed to come across, through the good old days of tape trading, some bootleg recordings of Machine Head which included early versions of some of those tracks. I became a fan instantly and have been ever since. Admittedly there was that period in the late 90’s where I kind lost track of the band for a bit but I eventually came back around by the time “Through The Ashes Of Empires” came crashing through and even more so when “The Blackening” kicked all of our asses collectively. But still, Machine Head were always a band that drew my attention and certainly caught the ears of others with that signature sound which has become embedded into metal history forever. So it was with great pleasure and honour to be able to talk to the man himself, Rob Flynn who is now considered one of the greatest frontmen in modern metal history and our conversation, while mostly sticking to the obligatory tour and album promotion talk did end up down some memory lanes. It’s hard not to really, Machine Head have certainly created some absolutely wild and memorable memories, one of which involves the fair city of Perth of which we are based in. But I’m getting ahead of my self here as our discussion began with the return of the mighty Machine fucking Head to Australia in July. Robb began by stating how busy things are with the Japan leg of the tour looming as they gear up to travel to that part of the world before going on to Australia and explaining what the band plan to bring to the shows. Robb: Yeah I mean it’s the ‘Evening With’ that we’ve been doing. Descargar parche para guardar partidas gta san andreas. [included crack. Del San Andreas descargar parche para guardar partidas gta san andreas gratis de PC. Bajate un mod para cambiar de ropa en el gta san andreas cuando te los bajes pones extrer en el. Por que no puedo guardar partidas en GTA San Andreas PC? We started doing An Evening With Machine Head, I want to say 2014 and it’s a 2 and a half to 3 hour show. It’s just Machine Head, there’s no intermission or nothing. We’ve done a lot of festivals and support slots and 45 minutes here and and hour there and we just got really burnt out on it man, we just got sick of it. We didn’t feel like it was really doing anything, it feels like festivals now are kind of, people go there to have fun and take selfies and hang out with their friends and smoke weed and get laid and get drunk and that’s awesome! But we didn’t want to be like one of the appetizers at a buffet which is what we kind of felt like after a while. So we really started doing this Evening With thing and it’s been amazing, people have really responded to it. It’s been huge for the band, the best attendances we’ve ever had in America, the best attendances we’ve ever had in Europe and it’s just amazing and we’re stoked to bring it to Australia and New Zealand. The last time Machine Head were in Australia was 2015 which ended up being a completely sold out tour! That’s not an easy thing in a market like Australia that can be quite difficult to crack, especially for metal bands but it clearly showed how successful the band are and what an impact they have had on the metal community at large. This time around they are touring in support of their latest album “Catharsis” which was met with mixed reactions so I asked Robb now that some time has passed since the release how he now feels about those songs and whether they have been going over well with crowds on tour so far. Robb: You know, it’s funny because I’ve been touring for 30 years now and I actually did my first tour in 1988 and even before that I was touring up and down California and even before the internet there’s always the type of thing where people were writing and if you were around before the internet you would read magazines and there was always the letter section and people would be talking shit and ‘This song sucks’ and ‘This band sucks’ and ‘This record sucks’ [laughs]. Ah yes I remember it well, a time that is probably now considered a relic of the past. But truly some things don’t change as Robb continues to point out. Robb: I mean we had so much of that during the Burn My Eyes era it was crazy, people either really loved it or really hated it. I think it’s just when you make something that, and I don’t want to say it’s controversial, but when you make something that has a strong stance, a strong opinion, like you’re taking a side, people feel something from that. To me there’s been a lot of criticism but the fact that anybody is bothering to criticize I think is cool because it means they care.
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