“I’m watching American TV and it’s like ‘Wow, man… what is this? This isn’t my America’”: How Machine Head followed a 21st century metal classic with Unto The Locust

Machine Head posing for a photograph in 2011.

Following such a landmark album as 2007’s The Blackening was a tall order, but Oakland ragers Machine Head had no such problems with 2011’s Unto The Locust. As Metal Hammer joined them on the road in the US on that year’s Rock Star Mayhem tour, we found mainman Robb Flynn in defiant mood.

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