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Machine Head dwell to defy expectations. Amidst a set that might properly outline metallic bluster, boasting jets of flame, fireworks and massive circle pits aplenty, Robb Flynn instantly brings every thing to a grinding halt.
Strapping on an acoustic guitar, he introduces Darkness Inside with an evidence that the track’s megadome baiting vocalisation was envisioned as a manner of connecting followers by means of music who could be battling grief. He then dedicates the track to PR megastar Michelle Kerr, who taken care of 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 an exquisite and heartfelt second, and underlines the earnestness that underpins nearly every thing 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 type 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 group to catch it – and dedications to “beer-box Jesus” (sure, a person dressed like Jesus carrying a cross manufactured from beer bins) add a way of acquainted consolation to the occasion that cements a way Machine Head are enjoying to a house crowd even when they’re really some hundreds 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 numerous manufacturing to be among the finest dwell bands at a competition. However as fireworks and hours of flame burst in the 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 high 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
