MACHINE HEAD Drummer Talks About 'Record Store Day' (Video)

March 22, 2011

In the video clip below, MACHINE HEAD drummer Dave McClain talks about Record Store Day and why it is important to support your local music shop.

Exclusive for Record Store Day 2011, MACHINE HEAD will release 10-inch vinyl, aptly titled "The Black Procession". The set includes three previously unreleased live tracks that were recorded along 2010's Black Procession Tour, in support of the band's last studio effort, "The Blackening".

Side A:

* Beautiful Mourning (live)
* Bite The Bullet (live)

Side B:

* Halo (live)

About Record Store Day: Record Store Day is managed by the Music Monitor Network and is organized in partnership with the Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS),the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS) and celebrates the culture of independent record stores by playing host to in-store events/performances, signings and special product releases on a global scale.

Record Store Day takes place annually on the third Saturday of April.

For more information on exclusive Record Store Day events, products and participants, visit www.recordstoreday.com.

MACHINE HEAD last year begun writing and demoing material for the band's new studio album, which the group hopes to officially start recording in April.

In a recent issue of Metal Hammer magazine, MACHINE HEAD guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn stated about the progress of the songwriting sessions for MACHINE HEAD's follow-up to 2007's "The Blackening", "So far we have two songs done, 'This Is The End' and 'Who We Are'. We have a third getting there, and six or seven jams that aren't songs yet.

"It's too early to see what direction it's headed, but the two that are done are anthemic, riff-tastic, and have an epic, neo-classical kind of vibe. Lyrically, songs are angry but about struggle.

"Don't expect 'The Blackening 2'; we're moving forward."

MACHINE HEAD's new album is tentatively due late 2011 via Roadrunner Records.

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