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Machine Head - Burn My Eyes



8.5 | 743 votes |
Release date: 1 June 1994
Style: Groove thrash metal

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01. Davidian
02. Old
03. A Thousand Lies
04. None But My Own
05. The Rage To Overcome
06. Death Church
07. A Nation On Fire
08. Blood For Blood
09. I'm Your God Now
10. Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies
11. Block
12. Alan's On Fire [Poison Idea cover] [Japanese bonus]
13. Davidian [live] [Japanese bonus]
14. Hard Times [live] [Cro-Mags cover] [Japanese bonus]

Top 20 albums of 1994: 15

Additional info
Recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkley, CA.
Mixed at Scream Studios in Studio City, CA.
Mastered at Future Disc, CA.

Guest review by
Passenger
Rating:
9.0
"1994... corruption, racism, hate. The church has failed... If Jesus came down, he'd be shot?"

This is the scenery, this is the reality. Welcome to the experience that visioning Thrash Metal through Machine Head's burned eyes is. Zenith of a relatively controversial fusion of conservative postures and modern approaches (which doesn't always have to mean alternative), I still get impressed of how successfully heavy and intense this album is, several years and listens later. During that time much has passed but its essence persists, which is, by itself, a fact that makes anything not recent interesting.

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published 04.01.2005 | Comments (10)

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05.07.2017 - 08:33
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Yeah I'm glad that I decided to listen to this album first instead of Bloodstone And Diamonds. Best of groove along with The Great Southern Trendkill.
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29.01.2018 - 18:39
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Even the lyrics are a lot more insightful than the new album.
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31.03.2019 - 11:06
Rating: 8
bloodwrage
Pagan Angel
Written by Guest on 01.11.2017 at 14:16

The only good Machine Head album, and a great one at that.

Rating: 6
That's what I call high standards
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24.03.2020 - 09:39
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
I listened this one whit friend, well I can say much never liked such groove and anything groovy, not my metal was it back in a days, now, hmmmm I liked it, its american metal, in american way in streets way , born in street, live in street, fuck in street, eat in street, shit in street, die in street. It has that old school attitude, whit young angry men
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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24.03.2020 - 13:17
Rating: 7
Metal Rasputin

IMO this is one of those albums that have so good first track it basically kills the rest. Good album, even their best alongside The Blackening, and definitely a masterpiece compared to their latest output.
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24.03.2020 - 16:48
Rating: 9
Cynic Metalhead
Paisa Vich Nasha
Written by Metal Rasputin on 24.03.2020 at 13:17

even their best alongside The Blackening, and definitely a masterpiece compared to their latest output.


The Blackening isn't a bad record at all, but comparing to debut - it looks extremely average stuff. As a matter of fact, I never found any MH album even 90% close to the debut.
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24.03.2020 - 16:55
JoHn Doe

The only MH album I enjoy
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29.12.2020 - 06:21
Rating: 9
JavierPaper

A classic groove/thrash metal album of the 90', but i prefer their progressive thrash metal era (2003 - 2014)
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14.12.2021 - 16:35
Rating: 8
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Sounds like early Sepultura combined with Pantera, it has a solid opening track, but the rest of the album doesn't quite live up to the opener, still a very good debut overall though, and some cool head banging riffs.
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18.02.2022 - 12:30
Rating: 9
nonZero

I remember reading about this album in Kerrang's top 200 rock album special, buying it a few days after and wandering around Sheringham forest here in the UK (the home of Robin Hood) listening to it on my iPod classic back in 2007/2008.

Turns out I had just discovered a band that changed everything for me and created an obsession with metal. I bought the guitar tab book a few months later and it opened my eyes to what was possible on guitar, especially pinch harmonics and drop tuning.

9.4/10 for me - 'Davidian', 'Old', and 'Block' are the standout tracks IMO. 'A Nation On Fire', 'Blood For Blood', and 'Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies' are all also fantastic.
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05.08.2023 - 05:18
Rating: 10
RoyBoy432
Dr. Quark
Mind blown. I love it.
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