Machine Head did a ton of touring and livestreams across the 25th anniversary of their Burn My Eyes album in 2019. The lineup for these reveals included Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn and bassist Jared MacEachern alongside Burn My Eyes-era drummer Chris Kontos and guitarist Logan Mader. Flynn went on to recruit guitarist Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka and drummer Matt Alston for the band’s new lineup on the time, whereas Mader and Kontos went their separate methods… however that wasn’t the plan.
In an interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Laborious Greece, Flynn mentioned he tried to do one other document with the Burn My Eyes lineup, however the pandemic screwed issues up financially for everybody. Nonetheless, Flynn mentioned the quartet bought so far as the demo course of and Mader even has a writing credit score on the brand new track “My Arms Are Empty.”
“[We] tried to do this. Logan truly has a co-write on ‘My Arms Are Empty.’ And we tried. I despatched everyone the demos. The stuff that I had until that time, I mentioned, ‘Hey, add some riffs to this’ or ‘Add some drum concepts.’ I believe the timing of it was simply loopy. As soon as the pandemic hit, everyone was simply making an attempt to hustle and generate profits and reside and keep afloat.
“Even Logan and I had a dialog at one level. He was, like, ‘Dude, I might love to do that, however I must fucking discover a approach to pay my hire. I’ve gotta determine another shit to generate profits right here.’ ‘Trigger he misplaced a whole lot of… When the pandemic hit, many individuals misplaced their jobs. So it simply, sadly, did not pan out. To not say that it will not sooner or later, however for this time it did not. And so Jared and I simply saved on plugging alongside.”
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