MACHINE HEAD is continuing work on its sixth studio album, “The Blackening”, tentatively due in early 2007. The group is recording the new CD at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn returning to the producer’s chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime MACHINE HEAD collaborator Colin Richardson (CANNIBAL CORPSE, TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) will also be returning to mix the record alongside Flynn this October in London. Tentative songtitles for “The Blackening” include “Clenching the Fists of Dissent”, “Aesthetics of Hate”, “Halo”, “The Beautiful Mourning”, “Now I Lay Thee Down”, “Slanderous Love”, “Wolves” and “A Farewell to Arms”. The band has also tapped longtime MACHINE HEAD artist Paul Brown (MARILYN MANSON) to begin working on album art in the coming weeks. Commented Flynn: “Record is coming along spectacularly, though we are running a little behind our own self-imposed schedule. Shit is sounding killer. We have the honorable Sir Colin Richardson scheduled to mix the second week of October. And we have a possible cover art idea finally that’s, well… kinda black… and kinda deathy.” SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH