How Machine Head nearly fell apart and Altitude interview at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards!
U.K.'s Kerrang! magazine published a five-page cover story on Machine Head in the April 4, 2009 issue, exploring the conflict between the band's vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn and bassist Adam Duce that was revealed in Robb's recent online posting on the group's official web site. Read the text of Ian Winwood's excellent feature in its entirety below, and go to MachineHead1.com to check out the spread, including Paul Harries' great photos.
In December 2008, Machine Head were coming apart at the seams. Then they signed up for regular therapy sessions. Here's what happened...
The tour in support of Machine Head's sixth album, "The Blackening", began in North America more than two years ago. Since that time the band — frontman Robb Flynn, bassist Adam Duce, guitarist Phil Demmel and drummer Dave McClain — have racked up more road and air miles than any band since Metallica toured in support of their own "black" album at the start of the '90s.
In that time, Machine Head have rounded the world many times over. In the United Kingdom alone they have shared stages with, amongst others, Metallica, Slipknot, Trivium, Mastodon, HIM, Arch Enemy and Dragonforce. By the time the Bay Area thrashers return home from the road at the end of this coming summer, they will have been on tour for more than two and a half years.
Is it any wonder, then, that life has become a bit fractious?
It was on November 20 last year that things came to a head. The details of the conflagration need not detain us here — indeed Flynn and Duce, the two combatants, offer slightly differing accounts of what happened that night — but the essence of the story is as follows…on Roadrunner Records Canada at:
http://www.roadrunnerrecords.ca/page/News?&news_page=&news_id=76104
Also, San Francisco Bay Area metallers Machine Haed were interviewed by Altitude on the "black carpet" of last week's (April 7) Epiphone Revolver Golden Gods Awards at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles.
Watch the chat below:
For more Machine Head news go at:
www.roadrunnerrecords.ca
www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecordscanada1
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RoadrunnerCanada
http://roadrunnerca.media-toolbar.com/
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