MACHINE HEAD Postpones North American Tour To Complete New Album
"Alright, so let's start with the bad news: Machine Head was supposed to start up a North American tour early October leading up to the release of their new album Bloodstone and Diamonds. The tour would've been with Children of Bodom, Epica and Battlecross and have gone up to the first week of November. Now the whole shebang has been cancelled so the band can finish up the record due to some kind of delay. Super bummer!"
MACHINE HEAD TO STOP PLAYING SUMMER FESTIVALS
Machine Head will release their new album, Bloodstone & Diamonds, on November 7th in Europe, and November 10th in North America and The UK via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Band leader Robb Flynn has issued his latest entry in The General Journals, an excerpt follows:
"The first thing is were on the eve of a new album (and the world that a new album creates) and that in itself almost feels like a miracle. Its been quite the three years since Locust came out in 2011. But those three years brought us to this, and this is where I want to be! The full album stream came out yesterday on YouTube, check it out:
Reaction has been amazing and polarizing. Extremely positive on one end and surprisingly negative on another, but I love it. Thats what makes metal so great, that people are passionate about, they fuckin care, one way or another.
The tour starts in Strasbourg, France and first leg of the Killers & Kings Tour will have us in Europe until we head home for the holidays. We then re-charge the batteries and hit the US starting in January. No rest for the wicked... or crazy... you tell me! But seriously January could not come fast enough as were really looking forward to doing something a little different than usual.
Were doing 'An Evening With Machine Head.' Meaning: itll just be us, folks.
We are really excited about the idea, playing longer sets, throwing in some deep cuts, and just having our own world. Promoters in the US seem really stoked about it, some have said it feels like 'an event.' Were going to do touring a little differently this time around, were going to stop doing all summer festivals.
As it stands now we have passed on a headline slot on Wacken, Soundwave Festival in Australia, Download UK, Sonisphere UK, Knotfest, Hellfest, and a plethora of other festivals throughout the world. In fact, we have made a decision to not do any festivals for the entire Bloodstone & Diamonds album cycle.
So yeah, if you want to see The Head, well only be headlining the shows we play in support of the new album.Why? Weve been doing festivals since 1995. Were burnt out on them." Further details available on
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