MACHINE HEAD Launch Production Video Blog #5; Bloodstone & Diamonds Release Date Confirmed
September 24, 2014, 10 years ago
Bay Area metal titans, Machine Head, has released the fifth vlog documenting the making of their eighth full-length album, Bloodstone & Diamonds. The band’s Nuclear Blast debut will be released on November 7th (Europe) and November 10th (North America/UK) on several physical and digital formats.
Bloodstone & Diamonds was once again produced by Robb Flynn himself and Juan Urteaga (Testament, Vile), and like the last seven out of eight albums, was masterfully mixed by Colin Richardson (Carcass, Behemoth). Additional tracking, editing, and mixing was done with heavy metal legend Andy Sneap (Exodus, Arch Enemy, Megadeth) who also launched his career co-mixing Machine Head’s second album, The More Things Change, and Steve Lagudi.
“Without getting too philosophical on ya, Bloodstone & Diamonds represent two of the hardest materials on earth, it is also a lyric from the opening track of the album, "Now We Die". In many cultures the bloodstone has been used as an amulet to protect against evil, and is the symbol of justice. Diamonds and are hardest natural material on earth (which is how we feel about our music), and it also represents the diamond logo I drew 22 years ago (in my wife's apartment on Dover St. in Oakland) that has become the symbol for the band.”
Bloodstone & Diamonds tracklisting:
"Now We Die""Killers & Kings"
"Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones"
"Night Of Long Knives"
"Sail Into The Black"
"Eyes Of The Dead"
"Beneath The Silt"
"In Comes The Flood"
"Damage Inside"
"Game Over"
"Imaginal Cells" (instrumental)
"Take Me Through The Fire"
More on Bloodstone & Diamonds production vlogs can be found below.
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(Photo - Travis Shinn)
