Album review: Machine Head – UNATØNED

Album Review: Machine Head - UNATØNED : The Razor's Edge

Album Review: Machine Head - UNATØNED Reviewed by Tim Finch Machine Head are a strange beast. In the mid-90’s they were lauded as the future of our heavy genre and they had the strongest debut anyone could remember with ‘Burn My Eyes’. The follow up, ‘The More Things Change’, equally set the world afire and it seemed the world was Machine Head’s oyster. From there the bands albums have been hit and miss; ‘The Burning Red’ was heavily panned (alt…

Album review: Machine Head – UNATØNED

Machine Head have taken a lot of shit over the years. Counterpointing genre-defining classics Burn My Eyes and The Blackening with far more divisive offerings like Catharsis and The Burning Red, critics and fickle fans alike have been as quick to criticise their more experimental urges as they have to praise their self-evident triumphs. Over the decades, though mainman Robb Flynn has learned not to let it stick, and having proven his band’s abil…