Unto the Locust is the seventh full-length studio album by American heavy metal band Machine Head, released in Australia on September 23, in the UK on September 26 and worldwide on September 27, 2011. The album was produced and mixed by Robb Flynn, and it became the band’s highest charting album ever, charting at 22 on the Billboard 200. Unto the Locust was recorded in Green Day’s Jingletown Studios. On June 14, 2011, Machine Head released the advance mix of their album track Locust, which was included on the 2011 Mayhem Festival iTunes sampler.

 

Machine Head is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California.  Formed on October 12, 1991, the group was founded by Robb Flynn and Adam Duce. There have been 4 member changes since their inception. The current lineup of the band comprises Flynn (vocals, guitar), Duce (bass), ex-Vio-Lence guitarist Phil Demmel (guitar), and Dave McClain (drums). Machine Head is one of the pioneering bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.

 

Machine Head was formed by member Robb Flynn, previously part of the bands Forbidden and Vio-lence. Flynn felt musically unfulfilled with Vio-lence and requested to start a side project. When his request was denied, he left the band and formed Machine Head in 1992 with Adam Duce, Logan Mader and Tony Constanza. Though the band’s first album, Burn My Eyes, was a big success in Europe where it garnered attention on MTV’s Headbangers Ball, in America (with HBB taken off the air during the grunge movement) Machine Head would not have success until later albums.

 

The band nearly disbanded in 2002 after negotiating off its label, Roadrunner Records, when controversy surrounding Machine Head’s fourth album Supercharger (released 3 weeks after September 11, 2001) resulted in their songs and their then-current video for the song “Crashing Around You” (which featured burning buildings) being pulled from all media outlets. The band re-signed with Roadrunner soon after and has released three albums since, 2003’s Through the Ashes of Empires, 2007’s The Blackening (which earned Machine Head its first Grammy Award nomination) and the newest album Unto the Locust was released on September 27, 2011. Machine Head have sold more than 2.4 Million albums worldwide since their album debut in 1992.

 

Personnel:

Machine Head

Robb Flynn ~ lead vocals, guitar

Dave McClain ~ drums

Adam Duce ~ bass, backing vocals

Phil Demmel ~ lead guitar, backing vocals

Production

Robb Flynn ~ production

Juan Urteaga ~ mixing

 

Track List:

Side A:

1. I Am Hell (Sonata in C#) (Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel)   [8:25]

I: Sangre Sani (Blood Saint)

II: I Am Hell

III: Ashes to the Sky 

2. Be Still and Know (Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel)   [5:43]

3. Locust (Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel)   [7:36]

Side B:

4. This Is the End (Robb Flynn)   [6:05]

5. Darkness Within (Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel, Dave McClain)   [6:28]

Side C:

6. Pearls Before the Swine (Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel, Dave McClain)   [7:19]

7. Who We Are (Robb Flynn)   [7:11]

Side D:

etching

 

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