MACHINE HEAD: 'Aesthetics Of Hate' Video Posted Online

April 26, 2007

MACHINE HEAD's video for the song "Aesthetics of Hate" has been posted online at www.visions-weekly.de (To view the clip, follow these instructions: 1. Click on the magazine cover; 2. Page forward in the magazine using the little arrows in the right-hand corner until you reach page 7; 3. Click on the play button for the MACHINE HEAD video). Alternately, the video can be viewed at YouTube at this location. The track, which comes off the band's new album, "The Blackening", was inspired by an article called "Aesthetics of Hate: R.I.P. Dimebag Abbott, & Good Riddance". The article, written by William Grim for the conservative web site the Iconoclast, basically kicked fans of the slain PANTERA guitarist while they were down, just days after he was killed onstage. The song is a "fuck you" to Grim, from MACHINE HEAD mainman Robert Flynn.

"It basically said that Dime was untalented and that he reaped what he sowed," Flynn told MTV.com about the article. (Grim called Abbott "an ignorant, barbaric, untalented possessor of a guitar" who looks "more simian than human" and "part of a generation that has confused sputum with art and involuntary reflex actions with emotion"). "It's one thing to have an opinion about an artist, but the thing that was the most offensive to me was how it then went on to cast this huge generalization over the metal community, calling us pathetic for mourning his death. He called us all ugly and fat. I wanted to punch the fucking computer screen when I read that article."

"The Blackening" was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, with MACHINE HEAD frontman Robert Flynn returning to the producer's chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime MACHINE HEAD collaborator Colin Richardson (CANNIBAL CORPSE, TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) mixed the record in London.

As previously reported, MACHINE HEAD's "The Blackening" has entered the Italian album chart at position No. 55. The CD was officially released in Italy on April 13.

"The Blackening" first-week chart positions:

Germany: #12
Belgium: #12
Australia: #14
UK: #16
Sweden: #19
Ireland: #23
Netherlands: #29
France: #36
USA: #54
Italy: #55

"The Blackening" sold just under 15,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at No. 54 on The Billboard 200 chart. This marks MACHINE HEAD's highest Billboard chart number ever.

MACHINE HEAD's last album, "Through the Ashes of Empires", opened with less than 12,000 copies back in April 2004 to land at No. 88 on the Billboard chart.

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