Character number one is named Ares, and he loses the love of his life, Amethyst, and goes on a murderous rampage against the people who killed her. Last month, Flynn told El Cuartel Del Metal about the lyrical inspiration for "Of Kingdom And Crown": "The concept is set in a futuristic wasteland where the sky is always crimson red, and it's based around two characters. Much of the new MACHINE HEAD album was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California.īack in December 2021, drummer Navene Koperweis ( ANIMALS AS LEADERS, ENTHEOS, ANIMOSITY) joined Flynn, bassist/backing vocalist Jared MacEachern and Ohren at Sharkbite Studios to jam on the final tracks for "Of Kingdom And Crown" and add some finishing touches to the songs. The follow-up to 2018's "Catharsis", "Of Kingdom And Crown" includes the three songs that were featured on last year's "Arrows In Words From The Sky" single: "Become The Firestorm", "Rotten" and "Arrows In Words From The Sky". And so it's really a very, very guitar-heavy, ferocious album." I didn't like what it did to it it just kind of softened it up in a way that I didn't dig. And it kind of limits you in a way, but I liked that - I liked that it was kind of forcing us… And I did try to experiment with a couple of buddies who I had worked with forever to try and bring in some of that pianos or keys or strings or whatever, and it just made it… I don't know. If it was gonna be a soundscapey-type sound, it was just gonna be a guitar making that sound. And with this I just really wanted to kind of strip it back and make it more just like guitars.
"The last few records that we've done, from ' Locust' on, have been a lot of classical bits, a lot of symphonic elements and even keyboards here and there kind of adding these soundscapes and ambient stuff. "I think the approach with this one was a little more stripped down," he explained. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It was Zack and I doing the production again, and then it was Colin Richardson and Chris Clancy mixing it, which added a whole other level of just ferocity to the whole thing. In a new interview with Rock Sound, MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn spoke about the production of the band's tenth studio album, "Of Kingdom And Crown", which will be released on August 26 via Nuclear Blast/ Imperium Recordings.
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