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Machine Head - The Burning Red



6.7 | 390 votes |
Release date: 1 August 1999
Style: Alternative metal

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01. Enter The Phoenix
02. Desire To Fire
03. Nothing Left
04. The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears
05. Silver
06. From This Day
07. Exhale The Vile
08. Message In A Bottle [The Police cover]
09. Devil With The King's Card
10. I Defy
11. Five
12. The Burning Red
13. House Of Suffering [Bad Brains cover] [Japanese bonus]
14. Alcoholocaust [Japanese bonus]

Additional info
Recorded at Indigo Ranth, Maliby CA.
Mixed at Larrabee Sound Studios, W. Hollywood, CA.
Mastered at Sterling Sound, New York, NY.

Staff review by
omne metallum
Rating:
5.8
Upon looking at the diminishing returns that was The More Things Change, Machine Head decide upon a new course, one that ironically fits the title of their prior record perfectly; the more the band changed sonically, the more the law of diminishing returns was compounded.

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published 28.06.2020 | Comments (1)

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29.07.2011 - 03:16
Rating: 5
Pyramid God

Yo-metal. I'm ashamed to say I liked this when it came out. I listened to some of it the other day just for nostalgia and hated every second of it.
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13.02.2012 - 20:41
Rating: 10
Big-Al

Easily my favourite machine head release... still/to date.
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I drink moosepiss
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06.09.2012 - 19:29
Rating: 7
Angry Chair

Written by Big-Al on 13.02.2012 at 20:41

Easily my favourite machine head release... still/to date.


Same, this album is amazing and im not even into nu-metal atall.

I can see why everyone else hates it and I wonder why I love it so much but I do.

Best songs for me are:

Message in a bottle (amazing cover totally owned it)
Five
Nothing left

But with this album I love every song so any will do.
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"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
- Denis Diderot
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02.09.2014 - 03:44
Rating: 5
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
"From This Day" is one of the most embarrassing music videos I've ever seen. Pretty lame song, too.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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02.09.2014 - 03:49
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.09.2014 at 03:44

Pretty lame song, too.



Justlike the entire album
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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02.09.2014 - 03:52
Rating: 5
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.09.2014 at 03:49
Justlike the entire album

I have a nostalgic soft spot for the self-titled track, but even then I'd still call it lame. This is just not a good album.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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02.09.2014 - 03:53
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.09.2014 at 03:52

This is just not a good album.



Like everything they released after The More Things Change
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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02.09.2014 - 04:02
Rating: 5
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.09.2014 at 03:53
Like everything they released after The More Things Change

I know your thoughts on Machine Head but I do still like both The Blackening (in spite of it being too long for its own good) and Through the Ashes of Empires (in spite of the inconsistencies). Personally I've never considered any of their material great, but a lot of it simply decent or enjoyable.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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02.09.2014 - 04:04
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.09.2014 at 04:02

Personally I've never considered any of their material great...



What what what? The blasphemy. Burn My Eyes is brilliant a true classic in the classic sense of the word... LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!!!!!!! hahahahaa
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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02.09.2014 - 04:08
Rating: 5
Troy Killjoy
perfunctionist
Written by Marcel Hubregtse on 02.09.2014 at 04:04
What what what? The blasphemy. Burn My Eyes is brilliant a true classic in the classic sense of the word... LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!!!!!!! hahahahaa

It's more the kind of album I enjoy songs from, but not the entire album. Not unlike the rest of their discography, actually. There are always at least a few songs I end up skipping regularly.
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"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something."
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02.09.2014 - 04:10
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Troy Killjoy on 02.09.2014 at 04:08

...but not the entire album. Not unlike the rest of their discography, actually. ...


The horror, the horror *in my best Marlon Brando in Apocalypse Now voice*
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Member of the true crusade against European Flower Metal

Yesterday is dead and gone, tomorrow is out of sight
Dawn Crosby (r.i.p.)
05.04.1963 - 15.12.1996

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19.03.2016 - 17:53
Rating: 8
Deadmeat
Necrobutcher
Not a bad album... selling themselves out is not a good thing but at least they wrote some nice songs... silver and from this day are the best for me..
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Υou've sold your human essence to the cold world of dead and empty things... You're SOLD!
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26.07.2023 - 08:06
Rating: 3
RoyBoy432
Dr. Quark
I'm familiar with The Blackening, Unto The Locust, and Catharsis. Decided to listen to all the Machine Head albums in chronological order because I've been reading all the reviews of their albums on here and revisiting/enjoying the two highly regarded aforementioned albums. I loved Burn My Eyes. I was disappointed and bored with The More Things Change...

I went into this one after The More Things Change... feeling optimistic. A different style is sometimes the spark that a band needs to reëngage me, and it wouldn't be the first time I disagreed with a negative consensus on this site about a record.

TLDR I think I prefer Catharsis to The Burning Red.
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