Saw some site that said this was album of the decade, and I agree!

Looks like its got alot of good shit on it!!

Best MH album!!

This sounds absolutely amazing! I've got to get this soon!

Is a great album.....but some songs are too long....

Wickedly epic and just one awesome blast of sound.

Perfect album ......i hope the upcoming album to be similar to this masterpiece

In my opinion this album is very overrated...although the longer songs are really well written.

I think what makes this album excel is its song writing, its superb.

Better than "Burn My Eyes " OMG !!!
Good enough 2 b album of the decade and on par with master of puppets !!!
sounds like my all-time favs r gonna tumble a bit ... LOL!!!

Not heard the whole album yet, but Clenching The Fists Of Dissent literally made my jaw drop when it finally got heavy (and, at the time of comment, am less than seven minutes into it: when I first went to check the time, it was less than four minutes and I was stunned at how much time had passed) and Aesthetics Of Hate was incredible (although I got a bit bored during one section of the song). Pretty sure this is going to be getting purchased when I get a spare chance.

Edit: Finally purchased it. Don't like it as much as Unto The Locust (although, to be fair, I did get that one first and most people tend to like first purchases over anything else), but I would still recommend it to anyone who likes modern thrash metal. For now, however, it gets an 8.

This is a brilliant album and surely one of the best of the first decade of the new century.

Impressive creativity!

My favorite trash metal album.

Fantastic melodies, technically superb, great musicality and insanely original.

I bought this album late last year already hearing beautiful mourning and aesthetics of hate. I didn't expect much from the rest of the songs considering that both songs are AMAZINGGGG!!!!!!!! But holy crap was I wrong. There are no fillers on this album first of all. Secondly every song has a great structure and none of them keep me bored. Last 3 tracks are my favs on the album atm. Especially farewell to arms every song has crunchy guitar riffs, pounding drums, great bass lines, and I forgot to mention HEAAVVYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! Easilly in my top 10 favourite metal albums

Oops... my 8 vote brought this album places down in top 200

I wish I could vote 9, but this album is 8.3/10 for me so far... Songs like Wolves or Farewell To Arms don't really appeal to me. Tracks 1, 4 & 6 are great though

Eventually voted 9. Nothing happened

Written by deadone on 22.01.2014 at 02:07

Tried getting into this one again.

And again Robb Flynn's woeful attempts at crooning destroyed the flow of the album and put me in a vile mood.

Boy should stick to his heavy voice and use spoken word for the soft bits. Or get someone in that can sing.

This band has really managed to fail dismally after their first two albums and even then The More Things Change... started to lose steam.

Really? I don't mind his voice, both heavy and mellow. He isn't for everyone, though. I think the most common criticism I've hard of this album is the long songs - almost like a progressive thrash sort of thing going on. This is one of my favourite albums ever, so it really worked for me. I wasn't originally a fan of their first album but later got into it and think it is a real classic now.

Best album of their whole career.

Written by deadone on 22.01.2014 at 02:07

And again Robb Flynn's woeful attempts at crooning destroyed the flow of the album and put me in a vile mood.

Boy should stick to his heavy voice and use spoken word for the soft bits. Or get someone in that can sing.

I completely disagree just because of the song Halo.

I am still baffled to this very day about the 8.8 score this album gets here on MS and is also considered really good by loads of other people.

FFS get a producer in and cut down the fat on your songs. The same illness Exodus suffers from after Tempo Of The Damned.

And in this corner, Marcel "The Broken Record" Hubregtse futilely attempts to make his opinion mean anything other than the disillusioned cries of a bitter old man. Taking lessons from deadone, or is it the other way around? You decide!

People can bitch all they want; this is the most solid record released by MH since Burn My Eyes. The More Things Change... had like four good songs among all the filler, and it just went downhill from there, before being semi-redeemed by the okay-ish Through The Ashes Of Empires. Nothing will ever top Burn My Eyes, but this is the best thing MH releases in years (or the only good thing really, depending on how you feel about Unto The Locust, which, flaws aside, is also still preferable than anything post-BME).

I'm still baffled there are people that think otherwise.

Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.09.2014 at 03:52

I am still baffled to this very day about the 8.8 score this album gets here on MS and is also considered really good by loads of other people.

FFS get a producer in and cut down the fat on your songs. The same illness Exodus suffers from after Tempo Of The Damned.

We all have different feelings about music and what one considers really good, another thinks is average or terrible. I think the longer songs work here but that's just my view. Having read a lot of your posts, I can see you often disagree with a majority view anyway, so I'm not surprised you don't think much of this album.

Decent stuff. The problem is that some songs are longer than necessary and it makes the album tiring and a little bit boring sometimes.

Written by Maco on 25.01.2015 at 21:56

The problem is that some songs are longer than necessary and it makes the album tiring and a little bit boring sometimes.

That's Machine Head's signature songwriting, makes me wish I could chop 80% of their songs in half.

This album is GREAT (for metal newbies) !

Written by Maco on 25.01.2015 at 21:56

The problem is that some songs are longer than necessary and it makes the album tiring and a little bit boring sometimes.

Couldn't agree more. Although I haven't heard the album in a really long time.

This and Burn My Eyes are probably their best albums honestly. Don't mind the longer track lengths, this thing packs riffs for days.

Excellent album, but it's a bit overrated

Easily Machine Head's best and one of the greatest metal albums ever made IMO. It influenced me a lot as a 15 year old discovering a passion for music and playing guitar (learning to play the whole album helped me improve my skills greatly).

9.9/10 for me - Beautiful Mourning and Slanderous are just a little weaker than the other songs.