“Once James Hetfield said he liked the album, that was it. He said that it kicked his ass”: How Machine Head’s The Blackening became their own Master Of Puppets

Machine Head posing for a photograph in 2007.

Machine Head’s classic 1994 debut album Burn My Eyes put them on the map, but they delivered their true masterpiece 13 years later with 2007’s monumental The Blackening. In 2017, on the album’s 10th anniversary, mainman Robb Flynn looked back on the making of a modern metal classic.