MACHINE HEAD announces new 11th album 'UnatĂžned' for April release under Nuclear Blast
18-02-2025
San Francisco Bay Area metal titans MACHINE HEAD announce their eleventh studio album for a April 2025 release through Nuclear Blast X Imperium Recordings. In celebration of the announcement, the band now releases the single âUnbĂžundâ.
Watch âUnbĂžundâ below.
The band took to their social media to say:
Head Cases! Weâre excited to reveal that our long-awaited eleventh studio album, UNATĂNED, drops April 25th, 2025 via Nuclear Blast X Imperium Recordings.
đ„ The crushing new single âUNBĂUNDâ is out now.
UNATĂNED is a testament to momentum, an album honed to its sharpest edge, forged on creative discipline and the hunger to push forward. It drips with melancholy melodies, and yet hammers with bludgeoning riffs, soars with anthemic sing-a-longs of love-lost and sadness, to bellowing power and undeniable confidence. Eleven albums deep, Machine Head remain as fierce, relevant, and unstoppable as ever.
đ PRE-ORDER the album in the following formats:
Tan with Black and Red Swirl Vinyl (Ltd to 550)
Nuclear Blast Exclusive
Black and Grey Marbled Vinyl (Ltd to 1K)
Best Buy Exclusive
Clear Vinyl
CD (Jewel)
All vinyl includes a massive 12×12 page matte finish booklet.
UNATĂNED track listing:
1. LANDSCAPE ĂF THĂRNS
2. ATĂMIC REVELATIĂNS
3. UNBĂUND
4. ĂUTSIDER
5. NĂT LĂNG FĂR THIS WĂRLD
6. THESE SCARS WĂNâT DEFINE US
7. DUSTMAKER
8. BĂNESCRAPER
9. ADDICTED TĂ PAIN
10. BLEEDING ME DRY
11. SHARDS ĂF SHATTERED DREAMS
12. SCĂRN
MACHINE HEAD is:
Robb Flynn      Vocals, Guitars (1991-present)
Jared MacEachern       Bass, Vocals (backing) (2013-present)
Matt Alston      Drums, Percussion (2019-present)
Reece Scruggs Guitars (2024-present)
Last year, MACHINE HEAD released a new single, “These Scars Won’t Define Us”. The official lyric video for the track, which features guest appearances by the other three bands which will accompany MACHINE HEAD on the Flynn-fronted outfit’s spring 2025 North American tour â Swedish metal icons IN FLAMES, Italian alt-metallers LACUNA COIL and American metalcore maestros UNEARTH â can be seen below.
Their five-week jaunt will begin on April 5, 2025 in Oakland, California at the legendary Fox Theater, then heads south for a stop at Sick New World festival, then east, and back across Canada, before concluding on May 10 in Kelowna, British Columbia.
“These Scars Won’t Define Us” is taken from MACHINE HEAD‘s upcoming album, which is slated for an April 2025 release.
MACHINE HEAD‘s current lineup includes former HAVOK guitarist Reece Alan Scruggs. Scruggs stepped in for MACHINE HEAD‘s previous guitarist WacĆaw “Vogg” KieĆtyka, who had been unable to make some of the group’s dates due to his touring commitments with his longtime band DECAPITATED.
Reece made his live debut with MACHINE HEAD in November 2022 at Strummer’s in Fresno, California at the opening show of the “Electric Happy Hour (Live)” tour.
Vogg joined MACHINE HEAD‘s touring lineup prior to the launch of the band’s “Burn My Eyes” 25th-anniversary tour in late 2019.
The rest of MACHINE HEAD‘s lineup consists of guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn, bassist Jared MacEachern and British drummer Matt Alston (DEVILMENT, EASTERN FRONT).
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