One of the most challenging things a band will ever have to navigate is to follow up a legendary debut album. The sky-high expectations, the pressure to recreate the special moment your fans discovered you; it’s taken down some of the most hotly tipped new artists in music over the years.
It’s a position that Machine Head found themselves in when they were tasked with creating the follow-up to 1994’s Burn My Eyes, an album that had seen them heralded as the future of heavy music. The pressure of that alone was enough of a strain but add in the firing of an important band member, vanishing vocal tracks and, erm, constipation, and it’s a wonder that they made anything at all - let alone an album as strong as The More Things Change....
