Machine Head interviewed at Brixton Academy
It was a busy 2007 for Machine Head and their
new album "The Blackening"... from receiving glowing 5/5 and 10/10
reviews upon release, to winning "Best Album"/"Album of the Year" at
the Kerrang! and Metal Hammer Awards respectively, to winning "Best
International Album" at the Danish Metal Awards, all the way to their
Grammy nomination for "Best Metal Performance", it's been anything but
ordinary, and it didn't let up when it came to end-of-year Best-Of
lists, polls and awards either.
"The Blackening" was awarded "#1 Album of the Year" by the Metal Hammer's Critic's Poll, "Thrash Album of the Decade!" by Hard Rock France, "#3 Album of the Year" by Kerrang!'s readers and "#3 Album of the Year" by Kerrang!'s critics, "#1 Thrash Album of the Year" by Hammer Germany, "#3 Album of the Year" by Rocksound, "Band of the Year" and "Album of the Year" by Total Guitar, "Best Band" and "Best Live Band" by Terrorizer readers... the list seems to go on and on and on. Even the traditionally unsupportive U.S. press had to bow down and take notice, with Revolver putting the album at #5 on its Album of the Year list, calling it "the finest Thrash album of the year", Guitar World naming it "#1 Extreme Metal Album of the Year", Metal Maniacs' critics putting it at #3 on their Album of the Year list, and über-elitists Decibel grudgingly including it at #21 on their list.
To top it all off, The Blackening was the #1 most spun record on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack, Grammy nominated "Aesthetics Of Hate" was the #1 most requested song on Hard Attack and Machine Head's 2007 Download performance was #7 on Kerrang!'s "Top 100 Greatest Gigs of All Time"! Needless to say, it's been a hell of a year... bring on 2008!
"The Blackening" was awarded "#1 Album of the Year" by the Metal Hammer's Critic's Poll, "Thrash Album of the Decade!" by Hard Rock France, "#3 Album of the Year" by Kerrang!'s readers and "#3 Album of the Year" by Kerrang!'s critics, "#1 Thrash Album of the Year" by Hammer Germany, "#3 Album of the Year" by Rocksound, "Band of the Year" and "Album of the Year" by Total Guitar, "Best Band" and "Best Live Band" by Terrorizer readers... the list seems to go on and on and on. Even the traditionally unsupportive U.S. press had to bow down and take notice, with Revolver putting the album at #5 on its Album of the Year list, calling it "the finest Thrash album of the year", Guitar World naming it "#1 Extreme Metal Album of the Year", Metal Maniacs' critics putting it at #3 on their Album of the Year list, and über-elitists Decibel grudgingly including it at #21 on their list.
To top it all off, The Blackening was the #1 most spun record on Sirius Radio's Hard Attack, Grammy nominated "Aesthetics Of Hate" was the #1 most requested song on Hard Attack and Machine Head's 2007 Download performance was #7 on Kerrang!'s "Top 100 Greatest Gigs of All Time"! Needless to say, it's been a hell of a year... bring on 2008!