CH       Zurich – Komplex 457 23.10. So yeah, I really don't have much more to say about this. E          Madrid – La Riviera 27.04. UK       Glasgow – O2 Academy *SOLD OUT* 07.11. IRL       Dublin – Olympia Theatre *SOLD OUT*, BURN MY EYES 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR EU-2020 tour dates, »Burn My Eyes« – 25th Anniversary Tour – Europe – Part II 19.04. They say to not feed the trolls online and not letting the dumb shit people say get to you, and this guy literally wrote an entire song feeding the trolls and railing about how the dumb shit people say doesn't get to him. #BurnMyEyes25 tour reaches more and more places. From a musical standpoint, Do or Die is short, sweet, and to the point, a sub-four minute thrasher that feels like an outtake from The Blackening, the album that brought Machine Head back to … UK       Manchester – O2 Victoria Warehouse *SOLD OUT* 05.11. E          Zaragoza – Teatro de las Esquinas 21.04. Sold by Amazon.com Services LLC. Check out Do or Die [Explicit] by Machine Head on Amazon Music. E          Barcelona – Razzmatazz 02.05. Absent this, he might do well to take a different lyrical approach and maybe try his hand at returning to something vocally along the lines of what was done on Unto The Locust. The Bay Area titans announced their “An Evening With” tour for Winter 2020, featuring three hours and two sets on Monday. SK        Bratislava – Refinery Gallery 12.05. BURN MY EYES 25TH ANNIVERSARY Tour EU-2019 tour dates: »Burn My Eyes« – 25th Anniversary Tour – Europe 05.10. Coupled along with this is a punishingly heavy breakdown moment after the first of multiple guitar solos that arrives seamlessly and perfectly embodies every strong moment that failed to be fully exploited on this band's mixed bag debut Burn My Eyes. I'm a long time Machine Head fan, and have realized how hit and miss this band can really be, especially with their release last year. But that's where the problems begin, because the lyrics are incredibly cringe-worthy. E          Santiago de Compostela – Sala Capitol 23.04. Sound itself is a bit to shallow for my taste. P          Porto – Coliseu do Porto 24.04. Bassist Jared MacEachern concurs, saying, “I’m blown away at how this video turned out. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. D         Würzburg – Posthalle *SOLD OUT* 12.10. It’s pounding, groovy, with deeper tone which sounds more hateful and contrasts well with pale jaded vocal performance. Metal’s Best: Top 30 Guitarists Ruling the Genre! Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.com. The same can be said about bass guitar. Case and point, the most recent single out of this band Do Or Die, a veritable exercise in reestablishing one's musical credentials following a flop LP and then canceling it all out by predicating the lyrical content of an otherwise solid thrash tune upon having skin so paper-thin that it's only visible in two dimensions. Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2019, You can't make everybody happy in the music business but this is a solid hit it gets you pumped and plus it's just music have fun with it, Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2019. Dedicated to Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Guitar And Music! If you get through, you meet something that someone who knows Machine Head is familiar with- Unto The Locust. UK       London – O2 Academy Brixton *SOLD OUT* 04.11. E          Murcia – SaLa Gamma 29.04. Was Ex Amardillo – Dean Guitars COO Wayne Odell’s Arrest On Child Pornography Covered Up. Overall, I like the direction the band's headed in musically, and I hope they release more with this as the core sound, minus the lyrical content. Solo is nice without complex guitar dueling. UK       Belfast – The Telegraph Building 08.11. It's a quite nice twin lead too, unfortunately wasted in the mire that is modern day Machine Head. All That Shreds List of the Top Ten Female Shredders! D         Ludwigsburg – MHPArena 06.05. UK       London – Alexandra Palace 06.06. Stormy Daniels Gives Full Disclosure On Her First Concert & Pantera, The Price Of Admission: A Female’s Guide To Navigating The Man’s Music World. With Vogg being the new guitarist, there does seem to be some hope for the band's future. F          Paris – Le Trianon *SOLD OUT* 31.10. I'll say it right now: Robb Flynn is a fucking goober. Look at how much better he says he is than the haters, people! And if any remnant Flynn apologists or the man himself wishes any further convincing, they would do well to consider that at present, Phil Anselmo is a considerably superior lyricist and vocalist, contemplate that on the tree of woe before hanging yourself from it. BG       Sofia – Universiada Hall 15.05. Previous single was an acoustic version of the song that was already released as Flynn’s solo project like 6 years ago. All That Shreds Exclusive: Conman TTM Guitars Lance Benedict Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy. Sadly, nothing can help Robb Flynn. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. It just makes no sense that he was able to write such brilliant lyrical content in earlier albums, but here, it just sounds like an edgy teenager who hates their parents, as well as people on the internet. I honestly don't know what Robb was thinking, with lyrics such as : RUS     Moscow – Klub 1930 23.05. Don't listen to this, and ignore future Machine Head for the good of your ears. F          Lyon – Radiant Bellevue 25.10. I           Padua – Hall 27.10. FIN       Helsinki – The Circus 28.05. But this track seems to deviate from that style instrumentally, given everything in this department is actually top notch, even in comparison to tracks from 'The Blackening'. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. Former Dean Guitars COO Wayne Odell Will Be Released From Prison Soon From Child Pornography Charges, Will He Return To Dean Guitars? Riff reminds me of This Is The End from UTL. The chorus on Do Or Die might make you turn away with its simplicity. From a musical standpoint, Do or Die is short, sweet, and to the point, a sub-four minute thrasher that feels like an outtake from The Blackening, the album that brought Machine Head back to prominence in 2007. RUS     St. Petersburg – A2 Green Concert 25.05. Common sense would seem to dictate that courting controversy and putting out thrash metal, regardless of the stylistic variant of the latter, should be a recipe for success. Our old friend once again decided that people just don’t understand MH. Enough to cause subjective complaints but not enough to call it downright bad. Best viewed without Internet Explorer, in 1280 x 960 resolution or higher. As best as can be explained, Flynn apparently hasn't gotten all of the homeboy out of his system following the disastrous nu-metal flop that was last year's Catharsis, arguably the worst album to come out of the American heavy metal scene in 2018 save Ministry's decrepit attempt at political pandering minus any degree of musical intrigue AmeriKKKant (the fuck does an 18th century German philosopher have to do with the KKK any way, Al? Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In any case, for now, I am going to ignore vocals and lyrics no matter how “fantastic” they are. The newest style pivot by Machine Head (or, for a more realistic band name, Robb Flynn and Paid Associates) feels so fucking disingenuous, possibly even moreso than all their other past style changes. Support Our Site! Also, the chorus sounds like its a parody of Dope's 'Die MF Die'. After rehearsals and pre-production in Germany, I can confirm there is no way you can miss out on this tour.”, And new skins-pounder Matt Alston says, “I’m so stoked to be part of the Burn My Eyes 25th Anniversary Tour. F          Paris – Le Trianon *SOLD OUT* 30.10. Today, the band dropped the video for the new song ‘Do or Die’ through Imperium Recordings x Nuclear Blast. It’s been a busy week for MACHINE HEAD. Suffice to say, Flynn still can't carry a tune to save his own life, but has managed to make matters even worse by throwing a whiny rant of novella proportions over top of a solid thrash tune, virtually canceling out what would have been a full on thrash assault. D         Bochum – RuhrCongress 15.10. Additional taxes may apply. Everything works. FUCK EVERYONE!,” says frontman Flynn. Speaking as somebody who used to be greatly into Machine Head as a teenager and fell out of interest with them as time went on, this just reeks of desperation on Robb's part to try and get some goodwill back after the unmitigated disaster that the last album was, which means thrashy guitars and fast drums, but Robb Flynn's gonna Robb Flynn whether you like it or not, and that means we get RAPPING VERSES in the year 2019 with the most cringeworthy lyrics imaginable. double bass intensifies closer to the end of the song and it makes for a wonderful peak of speed and pummeling. On top of it- “die motherfucker die” is not exactly the freshest line to say as the main song hook. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. You get a great look at how bass is getting by in solo part. D         Hamburg – Große Freiheit 36 02.06. They want their lyrical crutch back. AND then being able to have my face melted by the Burn My Eyes show…it doesn’t get much better than that.”. Nita Strauss Discusses Her New Album ‘Controlled Chaos’ & Alice Cooper, All That Shreds Magazines Hall Of Fame Inductee – Vinnie Moore. It doesn't rip all the way through though, the riffing and d-beat drumming broken up by the obligatory "We need a breakdown in here because people still eat that shit up for some reason and it'll sound good live" section about two minutes in, but it's thankfully brief, going only eight measures before heading into the guitar solo. Reaction videos and all your pussy little memes' CZ        Prague – Forum Karlín 10.05. Being on stage with Robb, Jared, and Vogg, performing songs I grew up listening to and in front of thousands of Head Cases, is just amazing. ), and has even gone so far as to up the ante by trying to ape today's mumble-rap craze (hence the popular meme Flynn Shady). I was fucking pumped up after my first viewing. Part II – will feature the Bay Area titan’s classic debut album, “Burn My Eyes,” played in its entirety for the first time. There's a problem loading this menu right now. I laugh like a crazy maniac whenever I hear this bark. The main riff is every safe, generic, modern thrash riff you've ever heard, broken up by gallops and power chords because we can't get too extreme, now can we? TTM Guitars: Fraud, Bankruptcy, Is Lance Benedict Repeating His Troubled Past? Just hearing this song fueled me with determination to write something. Instead, our system considers things like how recent a review is and if the reviewer bought the item on Amazon. And I would say that’s a good thing. I say that because only a completely self-unaware, self-serious goober like him could write lyrics like this without a hint of irony, spit them out with total sincerity, and release them in 2019. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. B          Brussels – Forest National, 02.11. D         Freiburg – SICK-Arena 07.10. Give me a fucking break. A          Vienna – Gasometer 18.10. UK       Birmingham – O2 Academy.