By Machine Head
NOVEMBER
🇦🇺 29th • Metro City, Perth
DECEMBER 2025
🇦🇺 1st • The Station, Sunshine Coast
🇦🇺 3rd • UC Refectory, Canberra
🇦🇺 5th • Good Things - Melbourne
🇦🇺 6th • Good Things - Sydney
🇦🇺 7th • Good Things - Brisbane
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By Machine Head
We found out that Ozzy had passed away from Sky News 20 minutes before we walked on stage to the opening night of our European tour. In a state of sadness and shock we made the decision to forgo our usual opening setlist. Following our intro of Ozzy's "Diary of a Madman" (that we've opened every Machine Head show with for the last 30+ years) we started the show with two Black Sabbath songs. "War Pigs" and "Children of the Grave", everyone sang, everyone knew tonight meant something, there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
There's so much more to say about the power of the Ozzy's songs, but for now, we'll let his music do the talking
Our deepest condolences to Black Sabbath, Ozzy's band, and the Osbournes
-Robb
By Machine Head
DESTROYEROFHARMONY has written a thoroughly in-depth review of our latest album "UNATØNED"
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Machine Head’s ‘Unatoned’ Is a 41-Minute Punch in the Soul – Brutally Honest Review (Track-by-Track)
Landscape of Thorns
A 31-second instrumental opener that is like walking into a post-apocalyptic cathedral made of rust and bad decisions. No lyrics, just vibe.
The vibe?
You’re screwed.
Atomic Revelations
You know that moment when you realize humanity might’ve peaked with sliced bread and everything since is just radioactive garbage?
Yeah, that’s this song.
“Atomic revelations / These cryptic devastations…”
In other words, the future’s here, and it’s wearing a hazmat suit. Think less “technological utopia” and more “Oops, all fallout.”
It’s a poetic bitch slap to our blind optimism. A warning, framing the future not as a bright evolution but as a terrifying construct built from our short-sighted and immoral decisions.
Unbound
This is the sonic equivalent of breaking out of a mental straitjacket while screaming into a hurricane.
Lead single for a reason, it’s the sound of someone clawing their way to freedom, with bloody nails and existential panic.
It’s not about being free. It’s about realizing you’ve been your own prison warden the whole damn time.
Outsider
A love letter to being done. Betrayal, bitterness, burn-it-to-the-ground energy.
"All the lying, all the cheating
All you left me was defeated
There could never be forgiveness in the end"
No redemption arc. Just someone standing over the wreckage of trust and lighting a cigarette off the flames.
It’s beautiful.
In the way that watching your ex trip over karma is beautiful.
Not Long for This World
Here’s your death anxiety, set to music. Haunting, lyrical, and bleakly gorgeous. The kind of track that makes you text your therapist and also maybe your mom.
"Through the struggles life hurls
Behold the heavens unfurl
Not long for this world"
You’re gonna die. Everyone you love will die. And this track whispers: “Yup. And?” It’s oddly comforting, like being hugged by a ghost.
These Scars Won’t Define Us
A motivational anthem for people who’ve seen some serious crap and didn’t get a cheesy Instagram quote tattoo about it.
"Head to the grindstone, power forward through the endless dark
Focus, determination, on this world I’ll leave a mark
It took so long for any confidence to get in here
And now the question that I need to know, I cannot hear"
It’s not saying “you’re special.” It’s saying “you survived, now do something with it.” Less “self-love,” more “self-discipline.”
Dustmaker
“Dustmaker” is a little musical intermission.
A breather.
Kind of. It’s the metal equivalent of a weird dream sequence in a war movie. You’re not dying yet, but your brain’s doing weird crap.
Sip some water. You’ll need it.
Bonescraper
It’s a head banger with themes of self-destruction and a side of guilt.
"We scrape our bones to numb the pain"
If you’ve ever tried to drink your problems away, punch your trauma into silence, or sleep with someone just to feel something, this one’s your anthem. Congrats, you’re the problem and the solution.
Addicted to Pain
This one goes out to everyone who keeps dancing with the same demons and calling it “growth.” Spoiler: it’s not.
"We’ll never know what could’ve been
Cravings pulled you deep within
Thrown into the hit machine
Feed the beast, start the routine
You gave it all just to chase this flame
The dotted line, a puppet in the game now
Twisted and cheating
The fame we chase is bleating
Turned against brother for acclaim that is fleeting"
The fame-chasing, dopamine-looping, clout-sucking treadmill of modern life, and how it turns people into hollowed-out achievement junkies.
No wonder you’re tired.
Bleeding Me Dry
This one’s a gut-punch, a slow-motion collapse of a relationship that started with dreams and ended with pill bottles and silence.
"There’s no pain without living life
This liquor helps cope with the strife
We talked of you being my wife
Picket fences, some kids, and two bikes
But all that was a fantasy lost in our haze
Through all of the weed smoke and piles of cocaine
A pharmacy of Vicodin, Percs, refillers
You and I were worst friend’s best painkillers"
Jesus.
That line alone deserves a Pulitzer in “Emotional Damage”.
It’s not a love song, it’s a eulogy for what could’ve been. And it hurts because it’s true.
They’re not lovers, not saviors, just each other’s favorite painkillers in a life too painful to face sober.
Shards of Shattered Dreams
More heartbreak. More poetic destruction. Think of it like picking glitter out of a crime scene.
"It’s raining
Shards of shattered dreams
This love divine
Ruins everything
Left to pick up the pieces
Of my dejected heart
I’m breaking and I’m ripping at the seams
These shards of shattered dreams"
When hope becomes a weapon. When dreams cut deeper than knives. This one will haunt you at 3 a.m., probably while scrolling through old texts you should’ve deleted.
Scorn
Dom Lawson, in Metal Hammer, called it “ostensibly a dark, crestfallen ballad” that builds through synth-drenched haze and emotional swells before erupting in a syncopated, spine-tingling finale.
He’s not wrong.
In fact, “Scorn” might be the most hauntingly beautiful track Robb Flynn has ever penned.
Machine Head is no stranger to monumental album closers, think “The Burning Red,” “Descend the Shades of Night,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “Who We Are,” or “Arrows in Words from the Sky.”
Now, add “Scorn” to that list, lifted from their new record “Unatoned” a fitting name for what feels like both an indictment and a lament.
The opening verse says it all:
“I’m putting you under my spell / ‘Cause I’ve got a Bible to sell
Let go your convictions, restrictions will cost you / Your fiction and all that is well
Distrust all the fable they sell…”
This isn’t subtle. It’s manipulation disguised as salvation. The “Bible to sell” is a loaded metaphor, suggesting the commodification of belief, the weaponization of faith. Convictions and moral boundaries are liabilities here, illusions sold to the weak, while the puppeteers profit.
“I look to the sky / As it won’t be the first / And it won’t be the worst
‘Cause there’s still yet to come / With a nation undone by their Scorn”
Hope?
Maybe.
But not without cynicism. The sky becomes a metaphorical void, once a symbol of transcendence, now indifferent or complicit. The “nation undone” is a clear nod to societal collapse, a warning about the corrosion eating away at public trust, autonomy, and truth.
The chorus drives the point home with venom:
“Scorn / Paranoia seeps through every pore
Scorn / Envenomated eyes emit their scorn”
Yes, “envenomated.”
A rare, brutal word choice. It means poisoned. But more than that, it implies a kind of psychological venom, gazes that don’t just judge but infect. Surveillance becomes psychotropic. The “eyes” don’t just watch; they erode.
“The eye in the sky never rests
Watching to form our arrest
They’re chasing us out of our nests
Keeping tabs as they play us like masters of chess…”
There’s Orwell here, but also something more, this is modern paranoia woven through algorithmic control, deep-state tactics, and manufactured chaos. The image of being driven from nests evokes exile from comfort, from truth, from home.
“I look to the sky / As they give us new rifles / To stifle our words
With a Bible and bulletproof vests / As we suffer their Scorn…”
Weaponized religion. Militarized faith. Truth gets smothered in the name of protection. Resistance becomes treason. Free thought becomes a target.
Thematically, “Scorn” stands shoulder-to-shoulder with:
– Rage Against the Machine’s political fire
– Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” and its suffocating institutional critique
– Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited”, where biblical imagery twists through cultural critique
– Metallica’s “…And Justice for All”, where justice is just another rigged game
But “Scorn” isn’t derivative, it’s a culmination. It distills our present-day fears: media manipulation, mass surveillance, the erosion of belief systems, and a creeping spiritual void. It’s a bitter elegy dressed as an anthem.
You don’t just listen to “Scorn”. You endure it, absorb it, and then see the world a little more clearly and perhaps a little more grimly.
The Wrap Up
It’s short, sharp, and swinging a sledgehammer. Less an album, more a therapy session set to blast beats. It’s a bleak, beautiful middle finger to false hope and a mosh pit for your emotional baggage. If you’re looking for easy answers, you’re in the wrong pit, buddy.
Joining Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern is drummer Matt Alston and guitarist Reece Scruggs, injecting fresh energy into their sound, making “Unatoned” a noteworthy entry in their discography.
Final Score:
5 existential crises out of 5🏅🏅🏅🏅🏅
Now go scream into the void or your pillow, whichever’s closer.
\::/
By Machine Head
By Machine Head
MACHINE HEAD'S MONUMENTAL 11TH ALBUM "UNATØNED" IS OUT EVERYWHERE
🎥 We've also unleashed a RAGER of a music video for the track "ØUTSIDER" which was filmed at the historical landmark The Aztec Theatre in San Antonio, TX on our current headlining North American tour with In Flames, Lacuna Coil and Unearth.
"ØUTSIDER is an anthem that has kinship with anyone who’s had to cut toxic people loose. These last few years, I’ve had to let go of a lot of relationships, and I know I’m not alone in that. This track is for anyone who’s been there."
Celebrate with us by blasting the new album UNATØNED 🔊 and watching the video below.
Head to our socials and give us your first impressions Head Cases!!
UNATØNED 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.
EXCLUSIVE NUCLEAR BLAST UNATØNED "BØNESCRAPER EDITION" RED VINYL WITH MASSIVE 12" X 12" PAGE MATTE FINISH BØØKLET
UNATØNED CLEAR VINYL WITH MASSIVE 12" X 12" PAGE MATTE FINISH BØØKLET
UNATØNED ULTRA-PREMIUM TEE
UNATØNED CD JEWEL WITH MATTE FINISH 20 PAGE BØØKLET
UNATØNED SUPER-PREMIUM ZIP HØØDIE
ATØMIC REVELATIØNS LONGSLEEVE TEE
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TIX: https://www.machinehead1.com/pages/tour
APRIL 2025
🇺🇸25th • Reading, PA
🇺🇸26th • Boston, MA *LOW TICKETS*
🇨🇦27th • Montreal, QC *SOLD-OUT*
🇨🇦28th • Toronto, ON *LOW TICKETS*
🇺🇸30th • Cincinnati, OH
MAY 2025
🇺🇸 2nd • Detroit, MI
🇺🇸 3rd • Chicago, IL
🇺🇸 4th • Minneapolis, MN
🇨🇦 5th • Winnipeg, MB *LOW TICKETS*
🇨🇦 7th • Calgary, AB *LOW TICKETS*
🇨🇦 8th • Edmonton, AB *SOLD-OUT*
🇨🇦10th • Klowna, BC
By Machine Head
Bay Area icons MACHINE HEAD unveil their crushing new second single, 'BØNESCRAPER'. The release features a new music video as well as the announcement of the special BØNESCRAPER edition LP of UNATØNED (shipping June 17). Watch the music video directed by Mike Sloat.
MACHINE HEAD comments, “This one is for those of us with darkness in our heart, a song about love lost, and a song for those who fail at love... but keep on trying… hence, we scrape our bones to numb the pain”
Pre-order & pre-save UNATØNED:
https://machinehead.bfan.link/unatoned
Stream 'BØNESCRAPER'
https://machinehead.bfan.link/bonescraper
WATCH: 'BØNESCRAPER' Music Video👇🏻
‼️🚨NEW VINYL COLOR ALERT‼️🚨
🛒 A new Bone with Black & Red BØNESCRAPER edition LP of UNATØNED is now available for pre-order. The new vinyl color ships June 17th.
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PRE-ORDER "BØNESCRAPER" PREMIUM WHITE / BLØØD TEE
By Machine Head
MACHINE HEAD PROUDLY PRESENT SHOTGUN BLAST WHISKEY
Batch #1 Limited Edition Collector’s Box, comes with 2 (two) Sawed-off Shotgun shaped bottles and 2 (two) Shotgun Shell shot glasses. An ultra-premium blend of 11 year aged and 4 year aged bourbon. 60% corn, 36% rye, 4% malted barley. This exceptional mash bill and aging process was handpicked by Robb Flynn himself, coming in at a powerful 94 proof, delivering a shot of rich bourbon flavor straight to your pallet.
By Machine Head
100 Greatest Heavy Metal Songs Of All Time
A message from Robb:
I’d like to personally thank Rolling Stone for the inclusion of “Davidian,“ from Machine Head’s 1994 debut album ‘Burn My Eyes’ in their Top 100 Greatest Heavy-Metal Songs of All Time. It was a rare and delightful compliment from a magazine that has largely paid us no mind for the last 29 years.
