Machine Head

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MACHINE HEAD are among the representatives of their genre who are constantly looking to the future. On May 6, the thrash metal band, which constantly redefines its sound but always remains itself in the end, comes to Ludwigsburg in the MHP Arena.

Even after more than three decades have passed since the release of their legendary debut album "Burn My Eyes", Californian metal giants MACHINE HEAD are still one of the most vital and successful formations in the history of global thrash metal. Stylistically always at the pulse of the present, yet at the same time significantly independent and therefore absolutely timeless, the quartet played their way into the hearts and into the top star league of the global metal community with their first album despite their uncompromising, massively rumbling sound aesthetic - and have since maintained this exposed status with every subsequent album. In Germany in particular, their current eleventh album "Unatøned", which was released last April, has climbed into the top ten of the German album charts, just like its four predecessors.

"Unatøned", which is stylistically based on the heavy groove metal of their debut album, is a direct alternative to their previous concept album "Of Kingdom And Crown": instead of sprawling prog-metal reels of up to ten minutes in length, the songs all deliberately stay under the four-minute mark and focus on surprising changes in harmony and mood that are not usually found in thrash metal.