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Bloodstone & Diamonds

Machine Head

2014 · Rock

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Bloodstone & Diamonds by Machine Head

Bloodstone & Diamonds is a Metal album by Machine Head, originally released in 2014. On Gatefold: 28 pressings tracked, owned by 3 collectors.

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The eighth album from Machine Head is a sonic journey into madness and back again. Brain-scrambling themes of death, regret, and dereliction provide emotional punches, but it’s the melodicism (especially on “Now We Die” and “Beneath the Silt”) and inescapable guitar shreds that carry this. “Night of Long Knives” documents the Charlie Manson murders with creepy aplomb, machine-gun drums, and kaleidoscopic guitars. “Killers & Kings” employs face-melting riffs to uphold Robb Flynn’s vocal pulverizing, which he abandons for a beautiful croon on “Damage Inside.” Flynn howls “No gentle mercies here” on the finale, “Take Me Through the Fire.”

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Tracklist

  1. 1Now We Die7:10
  2. 2Killers & Kings4:32
  3. 3Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones6:06
  4. 4Night of Long Knives6:48
  5. 5Sail into the Black8:29
  6. 6Eyes of the Dead6:25
  7. 7Beneath the Silt4:43
  8. 8In Comes the Flood7:22
  9. 9Damage Inside3:24
  10. 10Game Over6:36
  11. 11Imaginal Cells3:36
  12. 12Take Me Through the Fire5:48

Sound DNA

  • Metal
  • Progressive Metal
  • heavy
  • intense
  • urban

Album notes

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Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.

Track 11 has spoken word interludes by Dr. Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman, courtesy of the audiobook Spontanious Evolution.
Recorded at Trident Studios, Pacheco, CA, Jingle Town Studios, Oakland, CA, the back of the tour bus and Machine Head's Jam Room, Oakland, CA, Feb. 2014 to July 2014.
Packaging is a standard transparent jewel case, with a 28-page booklet.

Credits

The people behind it.

Performers

  • Dave McClainDRUMS DRUMS, PERFORMER
  • Jared MaceachernBACKING VOCALS BASS BASS, BACKING VOCALS
  • Phil DemmelLEAD GUITAR LEAD GUITAR, PERFORMER
  • Robert FlynnGUITAR LEAD VOCALS LEAD VOCALS, GUITAR
  • Chad KaltingerVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Charles AkertVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Eugenia WieVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Genie WieVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Ivo BukolicVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Jordan FishARRANGED BY KEYBOARDS KEYBOARDS, ARRANGED BY
  • Kathryn MarshallVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Kathy MarshallVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Philip BrezinaVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO
  • Rhys FulberARRANGED BY KEYBOARDS KEYBOARDS, ARRANGED BY
  • Vanessa RuotoloVIOLIN, VIOLA, CELLO

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