Machine Head will be celebrating the 2014 ‘Record Store Day‘ (April 19th) with the release of a new 10″. It will feature the demo version of a new song from the band titled “Killers & Kings“, as well as a cover of Ignite‘s “Our Darkest Days” on the b-side. Band frontman/vocalist Robb Flynn said of that:
“I remember growing up in the thrash scene and always wanting to hear the demo version of songs. You searched them out, thankfully my buddy Jim was a big “tape trader,” and through trading we had both Metallica demos, Exodus demos, bootlegs of songs sometimes “years” before they came out.
I knew how to play every note of “Pleasure Of The Flesh” by Exodus, easily 2 years before the record was out. I had Slayer‘s “Reign In Blood” 3 months before it came out, I remember it still had the hi-hat counts starting the songs!! My friends and I would debate the merits of each, (the demo was always better, LOL!) It’s so much cooler to hear it BEFORE the album is out!
So we’re gonna do that for you. I can’t wait for you guys to hear this stuff. Then you can debate it, haha!”
Flynn also spoke on the bands new material in the works:
“The new stuff is turning out better than anyone expected, we had a breakthrough.
We had THE breakthrough, with the song formerly-known-as “Back From The Grave aka: The Moon Is Fuckin’ Full”.
We been recording demos with the string section that played on “Locust,” “Quartet Rogue“, as well as multi-instrumentalist / keyboardist Rhys Fulber, and to quote Lars Ulrich (who was actually quoting Robert Trujillo), “we’re on some NEXT LEVEL shit!!!”
With that one song getting finished I could totally see where the whole record is going. It opened up right there before my eyes.
Nothing short of Exciting!!!
So that’s the latest and greatest in Machine Head-land. Everything here is full speed ahead and we can’t wait to reward the faithful with new music and everything else that comes along with it!”
For further reading, Flynn went into depth on the recent all-star benefit concert he hosted for a friend over at the latest installment of his The General Journals. Aside from being sued by their former bassist Adam Duce, the band have been hard at work on new material for their next album which they are expected to begin recording in February.
