Roadrunner United Release Celebrating The Iconic Label to See a Rerelease in 2023


Roadrunner United was a project organized by iconic hard rock record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary, culminating in the U.S. Billboard Top 200, UK Albums, and Australian ARIA Albums-charting original The All Star Sessions. Four “team captains” (Slipknot’s Joey Jordison (RIP), Machine Head’s Robb Flynn, Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, and Trivium’s Matthew K. Heafy) were chosen to lead 57 artists from 45 past and present Roadrunner bands. On December 15, 2005, a concert celebrating the project, album, and anniversary took place at the Nokia Theater in New York City. That star-studded event featured multiple musicians, both past and present, from Roadrunner bands — as well as musicians that did not originally perform on the All-Star Sessions album. Now that album is getting a release in 2023 on multiple formats. Watch the live performance video of “The End (Live)” featuring Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares, and Trivium’s Matthew K. Heafy – right now!

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Watch Machine Head Perform “The More Things Change” on Their Livestream ft. Logan Mader


Machine Head has been killing it on their livestream series, performing weekly since the start of the pandemic. The band is especially good at performing their album playthroughs and just did one for their crucial second album The More Things Change (Roadrunner) and its 25th anniversary. The performance featured original MH second guitarist Logan Mader, who was recently back in the band for the Burn My Eyes 25 World Tour. Not only did they play the full album of TMTC, but a bunch of tracks from their debut Burn My Eyes too. Unfortunately, the video got a copyright strike on YouTube for the music the band owns! Now it is back up after an appeal. You can check out our album retrospective here for its 25th anniversary. Enjoy this greatness!

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ALBUM REVIEW: Once Human – Scar Weaver


Five years used to feel like a long time in music. Entire scenes have risen, consumed all and fallen away to be a nostalgic footnote (or an ever-lasting sea change) in the same length between Once Human‘s last release and Scar Weaver (earMUSIC), their re-birth of a third album.

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Watch Machine Head Play “Burn My Eyes” with the BME 25 Line-Up on Their Livestream


This weekend (August 9th) marked the 27th anniversary of Machine Head’s debut album, Burn My Eyes (Roadrunner Records). To celebrate, the Burn My Eyes 25 lineup reunited at the bands’ Bay Area reheasal and livestream studio to perform the album in its entirety on their weekly livestream. Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern will be joined by BME-era drummer Chris Kontos and guitarist Logan Mader, who performed on the entire 2 year BME world-tour, for the livestream. Last week Robb and Jared played all of The Burning Red. The band performs its “Acoustic Happy Hour” livestream every Friday on the bands’ YouTube, and Facebook, as well as Robb’s Twitch account. Watch the teaser and check out our retrospective review here.

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Watch Machine Head Play All Three New Songs from the “Arrows In Words from The Sky” Single


 

Machine Head teased performed all therre of their new songs from ther current digital single during their regular Friday afternoon Livestream “Electric Happy Hour” this week. They performed “Arrows In Words from The Sky,” “Become the Firestorm,” and “Rotten” among a setlist that included major hits and some deep cuts too. “Arrows In Words from The Sky” is the latest in a series of singles the band has been releasing for the last few years, and they will end up on a future full length album in 2022, confirmed by Robb Flynn here. Continue reading


Watch Machine Head Play Some of their New Song “Arrows In Words from The Sky”


Machine Head teased their new single to fans during their regular Friday afternoon Livestream “Electric Happy Hour” this week. “Arrows In Words from The Sky” is the main track on their upcoming three-song single – “Arrows In Words from The Sky” due out next week, on June 11th. You can pre-save it at the link below. Included with the new release is a new track “Become the Firestorm.” The band just shared another behind-the-scenes video for the track as well. Their last single, “My Hands Are Empty”, was their latest in a series of standalone tracks. Some of their recent material has been co-written by Rob Flynn, with various guests, returning guitarist Logan Mader (on “My Hands Are Empty”), and other members of the “Burn My Eyes 25” lineup, along with mainstay bassist Jared MacEachern. The band has been releasing singles for the last year, and they may end up on a future album. You can hear the new track around the 1:37:00 mark in the video.Continue reading


Machine Head Announces New 3-Song Single, Shares More “Become The Firestorm” Studio Footage


 

Machine Head has announced a new three-song single – “Arrows In Words from The Sky” due out on June 11th. You can pre-save it at the link below. Included with the new release is a new track “Become the Firestorm.” The band just shared another behind-the-scenes video for the track as well. Their last single, “My Hands Are Empty”, was their latest in a series of standalone tracks. Some of their recent material has been co-written by Rob Flynn, with various guests, returning guitarist Logan Mader (on “My Hands Are Empty”), and other members of the “Burn My Eyes 25” lineup, along with mainstay bassist Jared MacEachern. The band has been releasing singles for the last year, and they may end up on a future album.Continue reading


Machine Head Shares Behind The Scenes Video for New Single “Become The Firestorm”


 

Machine Head has shared a behind-the-scenes look at their upcoming new single, “Become The Firestorm.” The clip features Navene Koperweis (Entheos, ex Animals As Leaders) and his incredible drumming. The bands’ last single, “My Hands Are Empty”, was their latest in a series of standalone tracks. Some of their recent material has been co-written by Rob Flynn, with various guests, returning guitarist Logan Mader (on “My Hands Are Empty”), and other members of the “Burn My Eyes 25” lineup, along with mainstay bassist Jared MacEachern. The band has been releasing singles for the last year, and they may end up on a future album.Continue reading


Machine Head Shares New Single and Video -“My Hands Are Empty”


 

Machine Head has shared the melodic and thrashy new single and music video for “My Hands Are Empty’. The track is great and is one of the new ones co-written by Rob Flynn with returning guitarist Logan Mader, back in the band as part of the “Burn My Eyes 25” lineup, along with mainstay bassist Jared MacEachern. The band has been releasing singles for the last year, and they may end up on a future album or remain stand-alone tracks. Watch the video and stream and purchase the song now! Continue reading


Machine Head Shares Official Video for Unplugged Version of “Circle The Drain”


 

Machine Head has released the official music video for its acoustic version of the song “Circle The Drain”. The video just features Robb Flynn of the band. The track is one of a series of standalone singles the band has released, along with “Do or Die” in 2019, and two singles this year: ‘Circle The Drain” and “Stop The Bleeding”, the latter featuring vocalist Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage. We are still waiting to hear the new songs frontman Robb Flynn wrote with Logan Mader, when he rejoined the band for the massively successful and mostly sold-out “Burn My Eyes 25” world tour. Watch the video now.Continue reading