MACHINE HEAD - 'Imperium' Live Clip Posted
October 23, 2012, 12 years ago
MACHINE HEAD will release their new live album, Machine Fucking Head Live, on November 13th. Check out a video for 'Imperium', featured on the new album, below:
The best way to experience Machine Head is in the live setting. The Northern California band has established itself as one of the best live acts in the hard rock and metal world, bringing venues and crowds to their knees with flawless onstage execution of their songs. Few, if any, of their peers can deliver the type of sweat-soaked, utterly deafening and fully punishing live sets that the band turns in night after night with near-religious fervor in their native US and across the globe.
That's why the band, who routinely shake the bedrock and foundation of venues, had to put its live fury on tape… again. The band will release Machine Fucking Head Live on November 13th. It's Machine Head's second live effort; Hellalive was released in 2003. Nine years have passed and Machine Head still slay and administer a beating in the live realm.
The band, affectionately known as "Machine Fucking Head" to their fans, who are in turn affectionately known as "Head Cases" and often sing louder than the band at shows, has effectively captured its live firepower.
Machine Fucking Head Live was recorded at various tour stops across the globe last year. It includes songs from the band's expansive catalog, including pit-stirring crowd favorites such as 'Imperium', 'Aesthetics Of Hate', 'Locust', 'Ten Ton Hammer', 'This Is The End' and of course, 'Halo'.
"The Head Cases have been so intense on this tour cycle that we had to start capturing the shows, especially with technology making it so much easier to record," said frontman Robb Flynn. "We culled some of the best nights where the band and crowd were on fire and made a bad ass, nearly tw0-hour, double live album, which is a great documentation of where the band is at 18 years deep."Machine Fucking Head Live tracklisting:
'I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)'
'Be Still And Know'
'Imperium'
'Beautiful Mourning'
'The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears'
'Locust'
'This Is The End'
'Aesthetics Of Hate'
'Old'
'Darkness Within'
'Bulldozer'
'Ten Ton Hammer'
'Who We Are'
'Halo'
'Davidian'
Machine Head will spend the next few months on the road, doing what they do best and that's lay waste to stages across North America, reducing them to piles of rubble and ash. The band will embark on what is sure to be one of the "must see" tours of the fall season with DETHKLOK, ALL THAT REMAINS and THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER. That lineup translates into one helluva night for metalheads.
The trek kicks off on October 24th with a “warm up show” in Louisville, Kentucky, two massive radio festivals in Orlando and Tampa Florida, and then begins with Dethklok on October 30th at The Norva in Norfolk, Virginia and will hit 33 cities before wrapping on December 8th in Atlanta, Georgia.
This tour will also be offering a limited number of Machine Head VIP Meet and Greet packages, look for updates and links coming later this week.
Tour dates:
October
24 - Headliner’s - Louisville, KY26 - Tinker Field - Orlando, FL
27 - 1-800-ASK-GARY Amphitheater - Tampa, FL
30 - NorVa Theatre - Norfolk, VA
31 - Electric Factory - Philadelphia, PA
November
2 - The Fillmore - Silver Spring, MD3 - Roseland Ballroom - New York, NY
4 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
5 - Metropolis - Montreal, QC
7 - The Sound Academy - Toronto, ON
8 - Stage AE - Pittsburgh, PA
9 - LC Amphitheater - Columbus, OH
10 - The Fillmore Detroit - Detroit, MI
11 - The Orbit Room - Grand Rapids, MI
13 - The Venue @ Playmaker’s - Fargo, ND
14 - Myth - St. Paul, MN
15 - Eagles Ballroom - Milwaukee, WI
16 - Aragon Ballroom - Chicago, IL
17 - the Midland by AMC - Kansas City, MO
18 - The Pageant - St. Louis, MO
20 - The Fillmore Auditorium - Denver, CO
21 - The Great Saltair - Salt Lake City, UT
23 - Showbox Sodo - Seattle, WA
24 - Roseland Theatre - Portland, OR
26 - The Fox Theater - Oakland, CA
27 - Hollywood Palladium - Los Angeles, CA
28 - Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
30 - House of Blues Dallas - Dallas, TX
December
1 - Stubb’s Amphitheater - Austin, TX2 - House of Blues Houston - Houston, TX
6 - Track 29 - Chattanooga, TN
7 - The Fillmore - Charlotte, NC
8 - Tabernacle - Atlanta, GA
In advance of the tour, 'Darkness Within', one of band’s most powerful offerings, had shipped to rock radio. The video for the track can be viewed below: