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Machine Head reside to defy expectations. Amidst a set that would properly outline steel bluster, boasting jets of flame, fireworks and massive circle pits aplenty, Robb Flynn immediately brings all the pieces to a grinding halt.
Strapping on an acoustic guitar, he introduces Darkness Inside with an evidence that the music’s megadome baiting vocalisation was envisioned as a approach of connecting followers by means of music who could be battling grief. He then dedicates the music to PR megastar Michelle Kerr, who sorted Machine Head for “[their] entire careers” and handed away in 2024, ending the thought with an insistence that the sphere be lit by telephone torches as “there’s sufficient darkness on this planet already.”
It is a good looking and heartfelt second, and underlines the earnestness that underpins nearly all the pieces Machine Head do. There’s no scarcity of huge anthems within the set, kicking off with a gloriously crushing Imperium earlier than rolling by means of sing-alongs from throughout their profession within the type of Ten Ton Hammer, Is There Anyone Out There? and Locust, every displaying precisely the sort of roaring dynamic that makes Machine Head at their greatest nigh-untouchable.
There’s additionally moments of surreal humour. Robb flings a beer to “Bananaman” – a person dressed as a banana who dashes by means of the gang to catch it – and dedications to “beer-box Jesus” (sure, a person dressed like Jesus carrying a cross manufactured from beer containers) add a way of acquainted consolation to the occasion that cements a way Machine Head are taking part in to a house crowd even when they’re really some 1000’s of miles away.
Three years in the past, Machine Head broke a decade-long competition abstinence by placing on a barnstorming efficiency in Bloodstock’s Sophie Lancaster Stage tent that confirmed they didn’t essentially want plenty of manufacturing to be among the finest reside bands at a competition. However as fireworks and hours of flame burst in direction of the heavens to punctuate Davidian’s cry of “Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast”, it positive doesn’t harm.
Make no mistake: Machine fucking Head are on the best type and we’re all richer for having them again on the prime of competition payments.
Machine Head Setlist Bloodstock Open Air 2025
Imperium
Ten Ton Hammer
Choke On The Ashes Of Your Hate
Now We Die
Is There Anyone Out There?
Outsider
Locust
Bonescraper
Darkness Inside
Bulldozer
From This Day
Davidian
Halo
