Blackened Machines

New York, NY (Roadrunner Records) -- MTV.com recently sat down with Machine Head's Rob Flynn to discuss the progression of the band's upcoming album, The Blackening. And by progression, we mean it...

"Flynn said Machine Head was on a Rush kick (particularly 1977's A Farewell to Kings) during the writing of The Blackening, and even took a few cues from the Canadian prog-rock icons.

"The one thing that they did is that they'd have these long songs that constantly had a continuing theme throughout them," he said. "The songs always reverted back to this one melody or this one hook - and that kept it in the context of a song so that ultimately, it wasn't just riff soup for 10 minutes. It kind of had some things that took you on a journey and then brought you back to something familiar. And that's something that we really started to try and bring into the mix. We'd have these long songs, but then we'd go back to these choruses or these hooks, but in a different context. The more we did it, the more we got excited about it. For whatever reason, it's worked.""
For this and more of Rob Flynn's tales from the studio, click HERE.
The Blackening arrives in Spring 2007.