MACHINE HEAD "Locust" Composer Reaction and Dissection The Decomposer Lounge 

Another Machine Head track to check out is “Imperium” 👌🏼

I was first hooked on early Machine Head with their first album but overtime lost interest and sort of forgot about them. Then they came out with an album in 2007 called The Blackening which was just an absolute mic drop masterpiece. To this day I think it belongs in the upper pantheon of metal albums of all time, like top 50ish. If you do more Machine Head, I would highly recommend Clenching the Fists of Dissent or A Farewell to Arms.

Please react to Machine Head’s “Davidian,” “Halo,” and “Imperium” Thank you!🤘🏻

The Darkness Within is another great song by Machine Head.

A Farewell to Arms is a must listen too by these guys. It's an absolute masterpiece

My 1st listen too!! That was fucking fantastic!!

Locust is the song that served as my bridge between my love of hard rock into my love for metal, Awesome reaction Geebz!

They are celebrating their 30th anniversary this week 🤘🤘🏿🤘🏼 Keep rocking it out and us old HEADCASES will be there with ya!!!

some must-listens from machine head (in my opinion): -Darkness Within (theres an acoustic version as well) -I Am Hell (Sonata in C#) -Descend the Shades of Night -Kaleidoscope -Beyond The Pale -Imaginal Cells -Pearls Before the Swine -Halo -Beautiful Mourning -Now I Lay Thee Down -This Is The End

Love this track. You should definitely check out "Sail Into The Black" next by them...I know you will love and appreciate how the arrangement just keeps building the whole song. It's a masterpiece!

One of the best metalsongs ever. Perfect riff, melody, structure and arrangement.

Rob Flynn is guitar and vocals..one of the most Underrated front men in all of music!

Asthetics of hate is all you need next! Anything off the blackening really as it's considered there best and one of the best metal albums of the last 20 years easily! Keep the videos coming dude we love them! 🤙🏻

I think doing a reaction to The Blackening album on its entirety is exactly what this channel needs!! Give the people what they want!

That face you pulled at the end riff is involuntary, it's the classic metal game face 🤘🏻

An EXCELLENT suggestion of an EPIC song from a CRIMINALLY underrated band!! 🤘💀🤘

I lived in this album back in high school. This and The Blackening. Halo would be a cool song to react to, although it’s like 9 mins long. That’s the song that got me into Machine Head

No-one on RU-vid has your unique perspective as a composer. Love this.

Clenching the Fists of Dissent. You WON'T regret it!!

Can’t go wrong with Halo. One of their best tracks…. As always I’ll continue my recommendation for lamb of god - embers featuring chino the vocalist from Deftones :)

Machine Head seemed like they owned a permanent spot on the second stage of many Festival type concerts I've been to over the years like Oz-Fest and U-Fest(local rock station sponsored) I was a huge fan of these guys years ago but wasn't until they were suggested thru my music app recently that I started listening to them again . This song is the one that made me stop working to check my phone to see who this song was done by so I could thumbs it up. I thought it was All that remains , As I Lay Dying or After the burial but wasn't sure. I'm sure hardcore fans would give me shit " those bands don't sound alike" but I don't buy albums and study the music like I used to. Most of the stuff I listen to is when I'm working construction and don't have time to stop all the time and look at the songs I don't know or that I do know but don't remember the artist name. Alot of bands sound similar if you are just listening to the surface of the song behind the construction noises! Good Job Geebz on honing in on this one! Awwwright!!

Love machine head! Imperium and descend the shades of night are excellent songs but really, they have a ton of amazing music

Finaly someone reacted this song! I just love this one and i´ve been suggesting this for many to react for years. Machine Head is so underrated band but these kind of masterpieces should everyone hear.

I have loved this song from the moment it released. I feel it almost has an Operatic quality to the composition of vocal and guitar melodies.

May I suggest "I am Hell". The intro alone is amazing.

Halo is an absolute must - it's their anthem. They close out every show with it. Imperium, Davidian, and basically the whole The Blackening album really. It's all ripper!

Beautiful Mourning!! Weirdly it was playing Guitar Hero Metallica that introduced me to Machine Head. As others have said, The Blackening is just magnificent, anything from that. I'm off to listen to it now after all this thinking about it! :D Love your work dude!

Please do Dimmu Borgir "Progenies of the Great Apocalypse"

Definitely should try 'Be Still And Know' also off their unto the locust album. The riffs really slay at around 3 minutes in.

would love to hear your analysis on the band 'IGORRR' they are a band that combines a variety of disparate genres, including black metal, baroque music, breakcore, and trip-hop into a singular sound. Would be cool if you did the song 'Tout Petit Moineau' or 'Camel Dancefloor'

This entire album is worth listening to, IMO this is the best Machine Head has ever been and its a shame its not the same members anymore.

Machine Head?! Yes! Haven’t listened to MH in quite a while honestly, but they used to be on of my absolutely favourite bands back in the day. To really enjoy true MH, you’ve gotta give their song “Imperium” a go. It’s one of their absolute classics and all time bests!

Now....THATS a Metal Band!!

He FINALLY does a Machine Head song. Halo or Imperium next.

Machine Head - I Am Hell (Sonata in C#)

Yes ! Excellent choice ! Please check out : "Bay of Pigs" from MH. Have a good one 🌊

Man I wish I had a music teacher like you in collage. I probably wouldn't have dropped out of music theory if you were teaching.

Knocked Loose - A Tear in the Fabric of Life

My favorite Machine Head album was Through the Ashes of Empires, which contained two outstanding songs: "Imperium" and "Left Unfinished," which explored the dichotomy between the love he feels for his adoptive parents and his disgust for his birth parents. A lyrically seething track.

You absolutely need to do Orbit Culture - North Star of Nija (Live from the studio), it’s incredible.

Those baritone guitars just sound so much gnarlier than a regular scale guitar tuned down

Double Barrel Friday request - King Diamond “Abigail” and Mercyful Fate “Desecration of Souls”. This will definitely get you into the Halloween 🎃 spirit

So many MH songs for you to get through. Descend the shades of night, heavy lies the crown, I am hell, now we die to name a few. Lived this man. Sub'd.

The beginning makes me think of Static-X, great band of my young adult life ! « Get To The Gone » is a good start in their universe. Cheers Geebs 🍻

Good call Geebz. 'The Rage To Overcome.'... that is all.

Machine Head! Nice

As Tool paid homage to Led Zeppelin with No Quarter, Machine Head does a phenomenal job with their version of Hallowed by thy name by Iron Maiden. It would be a pleasure to see your take on this.

God, I love machine head sooooo much 🔥😭🖤

Bloody brilliant song. Keep rocking on man. You're probably the most da kine dude in all the world. Never felt so peaceful listening to Machine Head

Noice. Commenting before having watched the video, so let's see if you draw similarities to Iron Maiden. While being way heavier than Maiden, I find their songwriting very Maiden-like.

Machine Head - Darkness Within (read the lyrics plzz) Machine Head - Davidian

Unto The Locust is their best and my favorite album. Locust and Darkness Within are masterpieces

The darkness within will blow your’e socks off 👌

I heavily recommend "sail into the black" or "the rage to overcome", two amazing tracks

You still have to do recharging the void. By vektor. SEA SLEEPER- MOUNTAIN CARVER Brand new band dropped their first metal band project.

For me, Burn My Eyes is still like the perfect metal album. Not a song I skip, love it. The Blackening and Unto the Locust are great in their own right, the rest of Machine Head I usually skip. Robb does these streams on Friday playing songs, it's kind of fun at times. Recently he got some of the old crew back to play Burn my Eyes on stream, it was marvelous.

Aquilus - Into Wooded Hollows! Neoclassical metal, you'll thoroughly enjoy it!

The breakdown at 13:40 gave him the stank face approval haha

Yes! Thanks Geez🤘

Machine Head is my absolute favorite band. Their guitar work is second to none!11

Great choice of band, these guys bridged the gap between 80s thrash and late 90s-early 2000s New Wave American Heavy Metal with crusher riffs, epic compositions and an album or two of nu-metal experimentation that fell flat. Check these tracks out: - Davidian - Ten Ton Hammer - The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears - Days Turn Blue To Gray - Now I Lay Thee Down - Aesthetics of Hate - My Hands Are Empty Enjoy!

YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!! You gotta check out Trivium's new album though. Shadow of the Abattoir is absolutely insane. Also, I've seen machine head live multiple times. The lead vocalist is also their rhythm guitarist but he does solo sections as well. This song live, specifically, they do the harmonizing between the rhythm and lead.

So glad to see a reaction to Machine Head video. Rob Flynn lead vocal and guitar is one of the best out there. His vocal diversity is awesome. And if you ever get the chance, go see them live. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference between hearing them live and listening to a studio album, other than the fact that it is way more awesome to see them perform songs like this in person. It gives you chills.

Would recommend you try some Beneath the Massacre, After the Burial, Ion Dissonance and The Faceless! And as a cherry on top, Pomegranate Tiger. And if you're not afraid hehe, some Converge or even Psyopus.

MH is so consistently killer. If you’re in the game for three or so decades, you’re doing something right. Always thought their musicianship was so underrated or overlooked, too. There are lots of iconic tracks in the catalog to check out that I’m sure you’ll get a bunch of suggestions for, so I’ll offer a deep cut, off the same album as Locust: “Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones”

Machine Head is one of my faves - they’ve released a handful of the best metal songs of the current century imo. Also highly recommend: - Clenching the Fists of Dissent - Imperium - I Am Hell - Sail into the Black

Love this track. Their debut album is a killer first album, Burn My Eyes from 1992. Recommendations I'd go with, Album - Song: Burn My Eyes - The Rage to Overcome (hard to choose a single track) The More Things Change - Ten Ton Hammer The Burning Red - Desire to Fire The Blackening - Aesthetics of Hate (Halo I think will be the fav from this album, I chose Aesthetics of Hate due to it's message to a hateful person spilling vitriol after Dimebag Darrell passed) Bloodstone & Diamonds - Now We Die \m/

I was just thinking yesterday that I wanted you to do Machine Head!

Imo machine head has one of the best debut albums of all time. So dig into that one 😊

Great reaction! I highly recommend Imperium, Descend the Shades of Night, Clenching the Fists of Dissent, Halo, Wolves, A Farewell to Arms, I Am Hell, Darkness Within, Heavy Lies The Crown & Arrows in Words From The Sky 🤘🏼

I would love to see your take on YOB. They're brilliant heavy post metal. Tracks like Marrow and Adrift in the Ocean. Absolute masterclass

Hey Geebz! I don't see where the "search bar" is located on your RU-vid page, but you CANNOT miss Trivium Amongst The Shadows And The Stones! It's a MUST listen!!

Songs I'd suggest by machine Head, 10 Ton Hammer or Davidian. I am an old school MH fan from way back, I haven't dove deep into their later stuff the way I did the first 3 or 4 records but the new stuff is pretty cool from what I have heard of it, like this track is cool af and they have a shit ton of newer music I haven't heard.

Halo, Heavy Lies the Crown, Imperium, Words in Arrows from the Sky, This is the End, Farewell to Arms, Descend the Shades of Night, Sail in to the Black, Clenching the Fists of Dissent, Bulldozer, I’m Your God Now, etc…etc…etc.

Such a great song, those string skip harmonics are a nightmare to play though.

I forgot just how absolutely F I L T H Y the breakdown is in this song, it hits you like a truck the first time you hear it or if it’s been a while

TREMONTI - LET THAT BE US 🔥🔥🔥

On this same album...you should do: 'Darkness Within' (Acoustic Version)

"Halo" is an absolute must!

Geebz got stankface from those heavy chugs in the outro

That "half-then-1/4-timing" shifting into slow, then slowER mode of the tempo again is kind of a Machine head "thing" and was HEAVY AS NUTZ, as are the LOW-detuned 6 string guitars. Their first 2 records were super influential to nu metal... and then they became nu-metal themselves on their 3rd record..

Unto the Locust is one of the albums that got me into metal. So much nostalgia

Amazing song

good call! the singer plays guitar too.

Good choice of a song by MH! Slice The Cake - Unending Waltz Slice The Cake - The Exile Part 1 - The Razor`s Edge Slice The Cake - Stone And Silver Part 1 - The Mountains of Man Slice The Cake - Westward Bound Part I - The Lantern Slice The Cake - The Holy Mountain Slice The Cake - Destiny`s Fool Textures - Awake Emarosa - The Past Should Stay Dead Emarosa - Pretend. Release. The close. Emarosa- A Toast To The Future Kids! Slipknot - Vermilion part 1 and 2. Slipknot - Gently The Faceless - The Autotheist Movement 1-3. Type O Negative - Love You To Death Soilwork - As We Speak Circa Survive - Get Out Van Halen - Aint Talking Bout Love Cane Hill - Kill The Sun Static X - Destroyer Coal Chamber - Loco Deftones - My Own Summer Deftones - Minerva Spiritbox - The Mara Effect pt.3 The Paper Melody - The Nightmare Academy Vildhjarta - All These Feelings Letlive. - Younger Celldweller - Switchback Glass Cloud - If He Dies, He Dies Ovid`s Withering - The Omen of Lycaon Rings of Saturn - The Macrocosm Rings of Saturn - Embryonic Anomaly Animals As Leaders - Brain Dance Born Of Osiris - Recreate Chelsea Grin - The Second Coming Soilwork - Spirits Of The Future Sun Soilwork - The Living Infinite 1 Celldweller - The Last Firstborn The Algorithm - Floating Point The Prodigy - Voodoo People - Pendulum Mix Novena - Secondary Genesis Circa Survive - Lustration Circa Survive - Child Of The Desert After The Burial - Berzerker The Contortionist - Vessel The Contortionist - Contact Breakdown Of Sanity - Paralyzed Breakdown Of Sanity - The Writer Xerath - 2053

I WAS WAITING GEEBZ THEYRE SUCH AN UNDERRATED BAND

Take a look at Shadows Fall, very talented band with an interesting history that also helped create All That Remains.

The beginning of Be Still and Know from this album is still my ring tone on my phone. Really an awesome album.

Check out Sail into the Black. The piano is haunting. It's a completely different sound from this track and I think you'll enjoy it

How about Opeth- "Credence"?

If you want to hear one of Machine Head's most angry, pissed off and endearing songs ever, check out Aesthetics of Hate, from the album The Blackening (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XmV1grBZ194.html) This song is retaliation to an article of some reporter that wrote bad and hateful things about Dimebag Darrell (from Pantera) after he was murdered on stage, instead of being supportive to the fans and family of Dime. Knowing the reason why the song was written makes it powerful, channels a lot of emotion and contains a few tributes towards Dimebag's guitar style of playing.

Finally! YES!!!

To me this whole album is one of the best *composed* metal records ever. There's nothing super "proggy" about Machine Head in the Dream Theatre or Djent sense, but that was part of the magic of this album. It was just REALLY good HEAVY metal composed and put together in such a way that still sounds unique and fresh 10 years later. They didn't re-invent the wheel, they just made it better. To, me this is a bedrock record for "Modern Metal"

There are so many Songs to suggest for this band. Basically any song from „through the ashes of empires“ (more melodic) and „the blackening“ (more heavy). Maybe i should give you one of each album: „All falls down“ „Aesthetics of hate“ „Sail into the Black“ (on another album)

For the love of all things rock 'n f'n roll, revisit Clutch asap! "The Mob Goes Wild", "Profits Of Doom" or really anything from the Blast Tyrant album!

Please do ‘Over and Out (feat. Tatiana Shmayluk’ by Twelve Foot Ninja! I loved the last decomposition you did for them and I’m virtually positive you’ll enjoy ‘Over and Out’ as well.

Even though Machine Head is definitely not a small band, i always had the feeling that they are heavily neglected for their technical abilities. The guitar leads, the tones, the arrangement of the songs is insanely good! And not only that, they have fantastic and legendary albums in the 90s, the 2000s AND the 2010s, something not many bands can be proud of

Check out the EPIC....Clenching the Fists of Dissent!!!🤘🤘

This is my favorite Machine Head song!

Not at all musically related but we gotta get geebs to check out Marc rebillet. Dude improvises amazing songs on the spot. And a lot of what he makes is loops he records of random sounds. Same can be said for Reggie watts. They even did a Livestream together.