MACHINE HEAD

Release Year: 2022
Artist Origin: USA
Style: progressive angry groovy thrash metal

there was a drama with longtime guitar player Phil Demmel stepping off after a provocative previous longplay, but non-other than Wacław "Vogg" Kiełtyka [Decapitated] joins in, bringing back the anger and spikes to music of groove metal legends, fusing meticulously layered riff architecture with a cinematic, dystopian narrative arc as a concept album set in a decimated futuristic wasteland: more disciplined, immersive approach with melodic clarity and rhythmic complexity coexist without diluting the ferocity, evolving with each listen, not through shock value but through emotional gradation, harmonic tension, and Robb Flynn's dynamic vocal interplay that refrains from polarizing theatrics to instead channel moral ambiguity and loss into a tightly coiled sonic form, making this diverse record a testament to restraint as a form of artistic strength; German three panel digipak edition comes with twenty page booklet and two extra tracks