A smile spreads across Robb Flynn’s face. “We didn’t know what we were doing,” says the Machine Head frontman and leader. “We just did what we believed in and somehow it connected. It was a crazy fuckin’ time!”
He’s talking about the band’s classic sixth album, The Blackening. Universally acclaimed and by far the most successful record of the Bay Area band’s illustrious career, it restored Machine Head to their rightful status as one of the world’s best-loved metal bands via some of the most adventurous and extravagant songs they had ever recorded, including four that pushed the 10-minute mark.
