If we talk about bandages in the metal scene, there are surely few characters at the height of Robb Flynn. Creator of some of the most important gender albums, their recent history as the leader of Machine Head It is also full of potholes, ups and downs and as many lights as shadows.
Yes ok Unto The Locust y Bloodstone & Diamonds They knew how to pass and keep the band at the top thanks to the inertia winning The Blackening -One of the key records of the 21st century and peak of those “new” Machine Head- Catharsis He returned them to their lowest point falling, literally, with the entire team. After a period of reflection in which he was forced to recruit and renew the formation, we saw some light again in Øf Kingdøm And Crøwnthat without reaching its best level it showed much improvement.
And it is now, when logic made us think of another small resurrection, which again shows the worst version of itself. It is sad to have to speak singularly to make Machine Head, but at this point no one escapes that he is the owner and lord of the farmhouse, plus a unipersonal entity loaded with ego than a full -fledged band. With this, Unatøned It falls into the same errors of the past (even in keeping appointing their songs in capital letters and with those ridiculous ø´s Nordic), as if stumbling with a stone would not have served to learn, and it is not necessary to go beyond the singles to find them.
A ‘bøNescraper ‘dreams with a crowded stadium and thousands of fists raised and surrendered to a chorus of the most simplom and predictable, while’ these Scars WøN´T defines us’ I already found blushing when she was launched back in November last year to promote her current American tour next to In Flame, Lacuna Coil and Unearth. Something that says a lot of a theme that only gives off topics of self -suffering and that typical American tufillo of groups such as Five Finger Death Punch because, in reality, I like all the bands involved.
The real problem comes when others make them good. The tandem formed by ‘Øutsides’ y ‘nøt tølg before this wørld’ It is a cluster of nonsense unworthy of taking the name of Machine Head in its header, very of the time of the time Catharsis. In ‘Addicted tø pain’ they seem to want to imitate bands that they themselves influenced, in addition to another ridicul In none of them. They only create the feeling of not having any coherence or direction within the album.
The only rescued moments are found in ‘atømic revealedøns’ y ‘Unbøund ‘, where powerful and direct riffs, their typical harmonics and current melodies better fit. A ridiculous baggage for a band that, if at the time it reigned, now takes more false steps than in the right direction.
Jorge Azcona
