MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn is featured in a new interview with Ultimate-Guitar.com. An excerpt featuring Flynn discussing improving his guitar technique for the band's new album, Unto The Locust, is available below:

UG: Do you see improvement in your playing across the board with your stylistic changes?

Flynn: "By adding this (third) finger into the mix, it makes the up tighter. Down is always tight, but it’s my up. It’s just as strong now. It makes it sound more fluid and more even."

UG: Did you learn that technique at the New York City Guitar School or did you figure that method out on your own?

Flynn: "I was touring with James Hetfield and I was looking at him going, 'Hey!'"

UG: Did you pick up a lot of techniques from watching METALLICA?

Flynn: "They’re amazing. They are a real band – one of the last real bands alive. Lifers. The way they arrange their set and blend their set, it’s the magnitude of everything. To me, it was a dream come true. I’m from the Bay and they were my idols. Just to see how much bigger that big could be and where things could really go."

UG: Are you striving for that kind of magnitude?

Flynn: "Yeah. Totally."

UG: With so many bands coming out of so many different labels and outlets, do you feel it’s still just as possible for artists to attain that legendary status?

Flynn: "I think it’s a hell of a goal. If you’re going to dream, dream massive. To be honest, I saw how massive it could be. This is a reality. This is totally a reality. They did it by their own rules. They did their own music. You hear a song like 'Master Of Puppets' every night. It’s eight-and-a-half minutes of super complex, weird, off-time rhythms. This is not pop music. This isn’t Lady Gaga or Taylor Swift. This is very different, very heavy, brutal music. People identify with it. Sure, you’ve got the 'Enter Sandman'. I love the Black album. To see songs like 'Master Of Puppets' go over – that is what is incredible. It has a bizarre structure, eight minutes long, super heavy, drugs, snort your breakfast! It’s awesome. I love that."

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Flynn took guitar lessons and vocal lessons to help the band get to the next level with their new album, Unto The Locust, and he said Rockstar Mayhem and IRON MAIDEN are to thank for that.

"It was great unlearn," says Flynn. "I've never had singing lessons. I had to unlearn 17 years of bad habits I had developed. It was just so hard! I've been playing guitar for half my life, I'm a king at this. It was a cool vulnerable place to write from."

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Flynn recently posted the following update regarding the band’s new album via his Twitter: “And the record... is... done...”

Machine Head will release Unto The Locust on September 27th via Roadrunner Records. The album was recorded at JingleTown Studios in Oakland, California, with Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn producing. The album was mixed by Flynn and Juan Urteaga (EXODUS, SADUS, TESTAMENT).

Unto The Locust tracklistings:

Standard CD:

'I Am Hell (Sonata In C#)'

I) 'Sangre Sani'

II) 'I Am Hell'

III) 'Ashes To The Sky'

'Be Still And Know'

'Locust'

'This Is The End'

'Darkness Within'

'Pearls Before The Swine'

'Who We Are'

Special Edition CD+DVD:

'I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)'

I) 'Sangre Sani'

II) 'I Am Hell'

III) 'Ashes To The Sky'

'Be Still And Know'

'Locust'

'This Is The End'

'Darkness Within'

'Pearls Before The Swine'

'Who We Are'

'The Sentinel' *

'Witch Hunt' *

'Darkness Within' (Acoustic) *

* Bonus tracks

DVD:

- The Making Of Unto The Locust Documentary