The Live CD Album recorded back on December 8th, 2001 is set for release on January 13th 2003 – date to be confirmed. Mixing is currently underway by Colin Richardson.. The album will feature tracks from the following set the band played. A title for the album is still to be confirmed. 1. Intro 2. Bulldozer 3. The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears 4. Ten Ton Hammer 5. Old 6. Crashing Around You 7. Take My Scars 8. I’m Your God Now 9. White-Knuckle Blackout! 10. From This Day 11. American High 12. Nothing Left 13. Deafening Silence 14. Davidian 15. The Number Of The Beast (IRON MAIDEN) 16. Territory (SEPULTURA) 17. Iron Man (BLACK SABBATH) 18. Sugar (SYSTEM OF A DOWN) 19. Supercharger

The press love Machine Head. We are the presses wet dream. Honestly, what’s not to love?I’ve got a big mouth, we’ve made our share of mistakes, people love to point that out. I dish it out a little I got to be able to take it when someone takes a swipe at me in the press. I have been called everything imaginable, by the press: I’m…an insufferable egomaniac, a loose cannon, defensive, the devil, the destroyer of Metal, a sell out, a failure, a bad leader, a bad decision maker, a fake, pathetic, over emotional, and an emotion-less ambitionist only concerned with furthering my career. I’ve been flattered: I’m…charismatic, the greatest front man ever, I’ve been officially declared Jesus Christ by Kerrang! Magazine, the savior of Metal, a genuinely nice guy, a respected leader, sexy, hot!, charming, shaggable. For some reason, my physical characteristics tend to get a lot of un-flattering word space: I’m…an ogre, dumb, ugly, slightly undersized, short, difficult, fat, a wigger, a homo, a whiner, generally not nice, arrogant, intimidating, down right scary, an asshole, and a wanna-be. Now, I’m a grown man, and I don’t mind most of this, hell some of the labels I even find funny and get a kick out of, like, when I’m described as a “pig headed, horses ass” or, “Flava Flynn”. What do I think of all of it? I’d addí¢ä‰åŒ_í¢ä‰åŒDOESN’T GIVE A FUCKí¢ä‰åŒ. There was a time when I did though. Shhhhhiiiit, I have laid into journalists for only giving our record 4 out of 5. Am I proud of it? No. Believe me, I know I am not perfect by a long shot. Do I regret it? Hell no. We deserved 6 out of 5 compared to the rest of the crap that came out that year. Would I do it again? Nah. Because it’s only one persons opinion, and that’s all. Just one person’s opinion. Believe me, I know more than anyone, that things are not the best they have ever been for The Head. Trust me when I say they are NOWHERE near as bad as “some” people are making it out to be. Machine Head just finished up what was arguably the best and biggest euro tour we have ever done. í¢ä‰åñHeadí¢ä‰åŒlined a few festivals (a Head first), met a lot of really good people, got a lot of love from our label, and drank a lot of good beer. Highlights: Ireland – Fuck yeah! Our secret show in London – Tiny club, stupid packed, HOT, onstage chug-a-lugs, drrruuunnnk, speaking English and failing miserably, hella fun. Headlining the í¢ä‰åñWith Full Forceí¢ä‰åŒ Festivals – 20,000 people………. Absolutely incredible. Phil Demmel – Filling in for the tour, and kicking ass. He did an excellent job. Phil will continue full time with his band / baby, Technocracy, as again he was just helping us out. The Noc guys are our friends, and we will not ask him to leave them, for us. Low Points: Losing my wedding ring while swimming in the ocean in Italy. Things that have made me laugh recently: The impromptu Vio-Lence “reunion”, that happened at the wedding of former Vio-Lence bass player Deen Dellí¢ä‰åŒ_í¢ä‰åŒ_.on the wedding bands’ equipment. Yours truly on “lead keyboards”. Horrible and hysterical all at the same time. Machine Head getting accused of selling out to Nu-Metal, in a magazine that has, “Linkin Park” on it’s front cover!!! Kelly Osbourne’s video…………..? Yep, I have definitely had some good laughs recently, lots of times at my own expense. I can still laugh at myself. We’ve made our share of mistakes, I’m sure we’ll make more. We’ve done a lot of things right, and the majority of you have stood by us, thru thick and thin, deciphering through all of the crap. We are a very lucky band to have the fans we do. You’ve proved it, the 10’s of 1,000’s of you Machine Head diehards that just saw through all the crap, and “sold out” every damn show on this last tour. The MH diehards that “sold out” every festival we headlined. The MH diehards that “sold” us “out” of merchandise, in under a half hour. Hell, even the ticket scalpers that “sold out” of tickets at $150 a pop. I don’t know much, but I do know this: I can say with an absolute conviction, that in my heart of hearts, I know, we are a very lucky band. Lucky to have fans / friends like you. Cheers fuckers. -Robert Flynn

“Grrrrreat Brrritain, We Are The Mighty, Mighty Ten Ton Hammer” declares Robert Flynn with a large grin. “Do you like my English accent?! We have travelled to your land from far across the sea to drink all your vodka!” The band (with the excellent Phil Demmel on guitar) took the stage last night at the utterly sold out London Highbury Garage at 10pm and what followed was 90 minutes of awesomeness. Kicking off the set with a cover of Metallica’s Creeping Death, complete with crushing moshpit, the band blasted their way through a variety of old and new Machine Head songs and a ton of covers. “This is a cover by a band called Machine Head”, he soon bellows. ‘Head songs Davidian, Old, Blood For Blood, Ten Ton Hammer, The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears, American High, & Supercharger were heard. Cover snippets and songs were mixed in Sepultura’s Roots & Territory got an airing, along with System Of A Down’s Sugar, Iron Maiden’s Trooper, Run To The Hills, & Number of the Beast, Judas Priest’s The Hellion, Queens Of The Stone Age’s Feel Good Hit Of The Summer, Pantera’s Walk, Black Sabbath’s Electric Funeral, and even Motley Crue’s Live Wire (dedicated to the lovely Michelle Kerr of RR UK, the band’s 8-year long-suffering press officer). All present surely noticed that during ‘Roots’ the lyrics to one verse changed to “I’m too sexy for my shirt, too sexy for my shirt”.. yes, THAT Right Said Fred song. Hotter than a Mexican sweatshop, during the show Adam (bassist) commented to his tech on the heat, pointing out the puddle of sweat he was standing in. You could see the sweat pouring off the band – they were literally dripping. And they didn’t slow down for even an instant. The Garage was rammed from back to front, and side to side – there were even people climbing onto the cigarette machine. Every possible viewing point had a body in it. The monster circle pit built up during Davidian stretched the entire venue! Were you one of the lucky 100 people to get a very limited edition Ten Ton Hammer t-shirt, designed for the Garage show? Ending the set by dragging a fan out of the pit onto the stage to chug a couple ‘Brown Eyes’ and then hang out backstage, Robb slapped hands with those at the front and beamed at everyone present, telling “this show means a lot, it’s the first time we’ve taken Ten Ton Hammer out of the Bay area, thank you!!” We’ll leave you with one last memory… Robb laughing and asking, “what the hell are we doing up here?!” We say, having a fuckin’ good time and taking everyone along for the ride. Awesome!

None But My Own In Dublin: We hear Machine Head played an awesome set… what did they play? The set included: Declaration (Intro), Bulldozer, The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears, Ten Ton Hammer, Old, None But My Own, Take My Scars, I’m Your God Now, Blood For Blood, From This Day, American High, Nothing Left, The Burning Red (first time ever), Davidian, Creeping Death (Metallica cover), Feel Good Hit Of The Summer (QOTSA cover), and Supercharger!! A review? Brian, better known as ‘thevalbomb’ on the official MH site messageboard had this to say, “Machine Head took to the stage to a huge roar, and enough Devil salutes to make God nervous. The place was packed at this stage and it was clear that this was gonna be a no bullshit metal show. Bulldozer is super heavy live, the quiet í¢ä‰åäóì loud thing is awesome. Robb was in great form, as was the whole band. We got treated to 5 songs off Burn My Eyes, (more than any other album!!), and every one of them killed. Set Highlights: Blood For Blood í¢ä‰åäóì yeah, we got this one! Robb had an ear-to-ear grin at the start of the song. Absolutely crushing. COZ OUR RULE ISí¢ä‰åŒ_BLOOD FOR BLOOD!!! Robb inviting a guy to the stage to chug Brown Eyes, followed by the obligatory stage-dive. Incidentally, the guys name seemed to be í¢ä‰åñBunnyí¢ä‰åŒ… The Burning Red í¢ä‰åäóì Apparently the first time live for this one, simply magical. One for the lighters. Davidian í¢ä‰åäóì Did you expect this not to be a highlight? One of the most crushing songs ever. Every single person screamed along to THAT line. Unbelievable. Creeping Death cover í¢ä‰åäóì This one went down a storm, the band had a real blast playing it. Love that riff! First time again for this one. Phil Fucking Demmel í¢ä‰åäóì This guy is such a wigger. I mean, he jumped around and banged his head during American High and From This Day. How dare he!!! í¢ä‰åŒ_Seriously though, the guy fucking shredded. He looked thrilled to be there, and was a ball of energy on stage. Fantastic atmosphere, great crowd, fucking killer band and an awesome set of songs. I defy anyone to not go to this tour if you have the chance. Machine Head 4 EVA!” Thanks for the time and the line Brian.. glad you enjoyed the show!

Both versions of the Supercharger cd are out now. Available on CD & Limited Edition Digipack CD from the following retailers: HMV, Virgin, MVC, V.Shop/Our Price, Selected Indies, Andys. So what is so special about this digi release besides than the packaging? It has four extra tracks. The tracklisting is: Declaration Bulldozer click here to download an MP3 White-Knuckle Blackout! Crashing Around You Kick You When You’re Down Only The Names All In Your Head American High Brown Acid Nausea Blank Generation Trephination Deafening Silence Supercharger Hole In The Sky (Black Sabbath cover) * Ten Fold (b-side) * Rat Race (b-side) * The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears (live) * * bonus tracks on the digipack CD only

“After two albums and more than 3 years with the band, guitarist Ahrue Luster and Machine Head have decided to amicably part ways, citing creative differences as the main reason behind the split. For those concerned, the band will still be playing all of their scheduled Summer shows and festivals overseas, and will continue on track until a new guitarist is found. Stay tuned for more details.”

Ahhh, the wacky world of touring, where we all know that shows and situations can change at the drop of a hat. What are we referring to this time? Machine Head and their upcoming U.S. headline tour in support of their latest release, Supercharger – the Supercharging America tour. So what’s the deal? This tour, originally slated to start on January 10th in Vancouver, will now be starting on January 20th in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Why? As frontman Robert Flynn tells, “I severely sprained my wrist snowboarding the other day”. Accordingly, playing guitar for the next couple weeks is out of the question…this is touring, live shows, the real deal – all members must be pumping on full cylinders…not like studio work when back in 1989 Whitesnake guitarist Adrian Vandenberg sprained both his wrists. Guitarist Steve Vai handled all the axe duties for the Slip Of The Tongue release and the band never missed a beat. Alas, we digress… NOTE – the original first eight dates of the tour WILL BE rescheduled and will take place on the back end of the tour, sometime in mid-February. NOTE II – Darwin’s Waiting Room and 3rd Strike will be the supporting acts (with the latter being the opener). NOTE III – let’s send a ‘cheers’ out to Machine Head, for they just won an ongoing 2 year court case wherein a commercial sound design company based in Venice, California (also named Machine Head) was trying to get our Machine Head to change their name. Congrats. Long live Machine Head…

MEN IN SPACESUITS? Our most recent email came in from longtime fan Terry Lum. Thanks for the write up! Terry is indeed a man in the know. “I was going to write to each of the crew at RR separately (& I still might), but since I saw this page I thought I’d take the opportunity to share a few tales about the tour: 1st up a massive THANK YOU to the RR crew, the MH Tour Manager, and of course the mighty MH, Ill Nino, Thumb, and Sugarcoma. Yet again I ventured to each of the UK shows & managed to get After Show passes (for myself & friends) to the VIP bar at Brixton. After mingling with band members, crew, and mad fans we all started to get kicked out at around 1:30 in the morning. But on our way to the exit I managed to collar Robb. Greeted in typical Flynn fashion “I wondered where that crazy Mother Fu#ker was!” (I guess he was pleased to see me again) Robb invited me and my missus back to the dressing room where I managed to set it up so that I could have AAA passes for each of the remaining gigs. Cheers Robb and Chris! As for someone reporting Human League being played after the Newport gig, that’s not the worst of it! You should check out some of the other CDs that Dave (McClain) owns. There’s some weird stuff done by guys, who (according to Dave) dress up in space suits and do strange covers of songs, leaving you going “Oh, I know that one what the hell is it?”. Also with regards to the Newport show, I just want to say a big “F#@k You” to the security guy that started to lay into a member of Ill Nino’s crew who was merely taking a load of video footage of the show for himself and the band members. That was totally uncalled for! But fortunately that did not stop what was to be an amazing gig, where I watched the show from the stage and went stage diving during the last song of the night, Supercharger. Boy that was fun. Sorry to all the people I landed on!!! By the way, did anyone see James (Sugarcoma drummer) stage dive into the barrier! Man that had to hurt! Probably the best gig overall goes to Brixton, where there is a great atmosphere in an unusual open top (but indoor) venue. Let’s hope the live recording comes out as well as the actual show when it is released. The best crowd response goes to Glasgow, where they know how to make a band feel welcome! But for me personally (and probably Sugarcoma as well, where Claire joined in playing “The Number of The Beast”) the great festive atmosphere at the Newport show where it was the final gig of the tour for the support bands was the most memorable. It has to be said that there were some long goodbye’s being said that night before Chris managed to drag MH off to the tour bus for a recording session with Radio 1 down in London the following morning. P.S. I’ve just got some photos developed today, so I might e-mail them in if anyone wants me to. Cheers, Terry Lum.” Our new friend Steve went to the London show, and found himself on TV camera! He writes, “I got to the venue at 1pm, and god the weather was freezing… while we were waiting outside, a whole group of us were interviewed for TV, we think it was the LWT area, but I don’t know if they used me in there or not, as I don’t get LWT!! So if you know if there was a program broadcast with a fatish guy with glasses and a Fear Factory jacket doing a lot of talking whereas everyone else just shuts up, then let me know!!!!” Cool story Steve, and we can tell you the TV programme was shot for Sky.. and should be on screens sometime around March. We’ll bring you more info when we get it. Check your postbox for a poster soon. It’s all good. Check out this cool tale from MH fan Tom Barker. “Hey RR!! Yeah I had a fucking ace time at the Machine Head show in Brixton aswell! Back in September I did a fan interview for Kerrang with Machine Head to launch Supercharger, so I was fucking overwhelmed when I heard I could go and meet Machine Head and Ill Nino again at Brixton. Not only did Ill Nino sign everything we put under their noses, but Robb from MH also somehow remembered my first name from the interview we did! Which was nice! The loverly Kirsten also somehow gave me and my matey, plus a load of hard working street team members some passes for the after-show party, with free alcohol! So all in all a quality night! Thank you Machine Head , Ill Nino and RRRecords!” And a poster will be winging it’s way to you too Tom. Glad you had a good night. We did too. Manchester First show of the tour, first ever Ill Nino UK show, lots of expectations to meet. The first day of a tour is always madly busy – at least for the crew and the tour manager who are running around trying to make sure that everything is in place not only for that night but the whole tour as well. All the hard work and effort paid off though, for all the bands have nothing but glowing reports of the show and fans they got to meet. The Mancunian hospitality triumphed again. London Did you know that the entire set at Brixton on the 8th was recorded live? Robert has been talking of a live album and/or a DVD release possibility and who knows where else it could show up. The band played a whole mix of catalogue – including old classics such as Ten Ton Hammer and Davidian to new songs Supercharger, and American High. Not forgetting a moving performance of Deafening Silence, dedicated to all the victims in the Sept 11 US terrorist attacks. Yes, there were plenty of lighters held aloft. With Robb introducing their encore shouting “I am Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden” the band launched into a medley of covers, including Number Of The Beast, Iron Man, Territory (Sepultura), and Sugar (System Of A Down)! But was the show good to watch? Oh yes… here’s a clip from an email we received afterwards… “hey i hope you don’t mind me emailing but i just got back from Machine Head and i had to say how fucking amazing it was, it was the best gig i have ever been to and the best live band i have ever seen, i was right at the barrier near the middle and nearly got my neck broken but it was all worth it!” Glad you had a cool time Bex, thanks for the email. Wolverhampton Mindee, RR gal on the road, tells, “it went really really well, the crowd went mad!” We guess you all had a good time then. Reports have been coming in of stage and crowd-diving Ill Nino crew during the Machine Head set, so we guess they were having a good time as well! Did you know some foolish guy threw a full pint glass at Robb during the set? And managed to hit him with it? What a waste of a good beer. Instead of being pissed off and walking off, Robb shrugged it off saying “I’m the dirtiest dog in here, covered in sweat and shit, and I haven’t showered in 5 days… I can pour my own beer over my head…” And so he did and another good beer got wasted. Just to top things off, when he threw a bottle back out into the crowd, some guy managed to catch it, without spilling it… nice one – we all know free beer is a good thing. Don’t think the pint-launching guy managed to stay in for the rest of the set after though, we hear he had a few beefy security guards keeping him company out back… Glasgow Aside from the band’s mirth at finding it impossible to understand much of the Scottish accents, we hear a massively rockin’ night out was had by all. Robb reports this was the best crowd the whole tour and that everyone just went crazy! So you Scots like Machine Head eh? Nottingham Ah, what shall we say about the “Nottinghamians”… these guys like to drink with Machine Head too. Did you know the band have been changing the covers medley slightly each night depending on whatever the hell they felt like playing at the time? Tonight was “British Metal Night”, and some time honoured old classics were belted out in fine form. If you were there, did you recognise them all? It all sounded great and the band said afterwards just what a fun time they have been having on this tour. Some of the most fun ever in fact. Post show, all the bands chilled out backstage a while, and then headed into The Rig, the downstairs bar part of Rock City, to join the remaining gig goers for a few Machine Head Brown Eyes at the bar! Oh yes, many a beverage was sunk this evening. And there everyone hung out and partied, til the tour managers chased the bands onto the buses and took them off into the dark night for the next venue. Newport Never mind the show, we heard the band made the most of the venue being a leisure centre, and spent all their spare time goofing off in the swimming pool, the jacuzzi, and bombing down the water slide! Joined by Ill Nino, our waterbabies were having such fun, they were still in there when the doors opened, and some rather surprised fans were greeted by some semi-naked, dripping wet band members hightailing it back to the dressing rooms double quick! The show, of course, was another tremendous effort, and even saw members of Ill Nino and crew crowd-diving from the stage through the set. As for the medley of covers, Sepultura’s ‘Roots’ were heard tonight, amongst others. We wouldn’t be lying if we told you we heard a trio from Machine Head and Ill Nino doing some backstage karaoke to a certain Human League song either. It’s true! That’s it. The UK tour is over. We’ll have photos up from the shows soon so keep checking back to see if you are in any of them! No more UK dates are confirmed at present although the band are hopeful of returning for festivals over the summer. In the meanwhile, content yourselves with a brand new Machine Head single ‘Crashing Around You’, complete with live tracks, to recapture the magic of the last few days in the comfort of your own bedroom.

MACHINE HEAD SINGLE – “Crashing Around You” is out now. The tracklisting is: 1. Crashing Around You 2. Silver (live) 3. Ten Ton Hammer (live) This CD contains the video “Crashing Around You” as an enhanced element. “Crashing Around You”: Produced by Johnny K. – Co-Produced by Machine Head – Mixed by Colin Richardson Live tracks: Produced by Leif Edling and Machine Head – Recorded and Mixed by Janne Waldenmark – Recorded at Cirkus, Stockholm on December 2, 1999 by Swedish Radio P3 Live “Crashing Around You” video: Directed by Nathan “Karma” Cox – Produced by Dave Robertson NEW VIDEO – The brand new video for Crashing Around You’ can be seen in the video section.

Remember hearing about Ten Ton Hammer, the famed Machine Head cover band, playing a show on Halloween? In fact, what was to be their second show EVER. Well, have you made the connection? Ten Ton Hammer IS Machine Head. Oh, such a grand tradition Halloween is…and much to the credit and creativeness of Machine Head, they played a hometown show on Halloween under the moniker Ten Ton Hammer. AND, they dressed up too. Like what? Check out the following Ten Ton Hammer review as written by US Road Crew member Natalie Fuellenbach: “Machine Head didn’t end up dressing in Star Wars costumes…they were an 80’s hair band….well Motley Crue to be exact. hehehe. They started the show out by playing an old 80’s song…and they ended the show with “Iron Man”… I had a great time! It was so fun….the drink for the night was the browneye heheheh. I have to say this was the best halloween yet.” ‘Anyway, that was how Machine Head spent Halloween. Pretty cool, huh. Check out the gallery for photos. Currently www.ESPguitars.com is running a couple interviews online – one with Dry Kill Logic bassist Dave Kowatch, and the other with Machine Head guitarist Ahrue Luster. Check em out…