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Machine Head is a heavy metal band, formed in 1992 in Oakland, California.
Machine Head was founded in 1992 by former Vio-lence guitarist Robb Flynn in Oakland, CA. Begining in a rehearsal room they shared with 4 punk rock bands. They would play their first show in Aug. 1992 at a house party in Oakland, with subsequent shows occuring in Las Vagas, L.A. and Pleasant Hill. Members at the time consisted of Robb Flynn, Adam Duce, Logan Mader, and Tony Costanza. Gaining a reputation for as a live band to be reckoned with (something they would retain to this day) as well as for being rough around the edges (they would be banned from 3 clubs in the Bay Area for fighting) they played shows with a diverse selection of bands from Rancid, and Deftones, to Possesed and Testament. After recruiting Chris Kontos on drums (Attitude Adjustment, Grinch) they would record a demo in a friends home studio, and would go on to sell over 3,000 worldwide. They released their first album through Roadrunner Records, Burn My Eyes, produced and mixed by Colin Richardson, on Aug. 8th, 1994 and the band would tour with Napalm Death (whom they would share a bus with) and then-labelmates Obituary where they received good, but occasionally hostile responses from the primarily Death / Grind fans of the headline acts. The band would be asked to support Slayer for 2 months in the UK and Europe where their album had charted at #26 in the UK, and #44 in Germany. It would not break the Billboard Top 200 in the US, selling barely more than 1,100 copies it’s first week. UK Metal magazine Kerrang gave the album their top rating, being “K’s”, with many International metal magazines giving equal praise to the album. The album would be panned in the US by the metal press where band members claim that one reveiw was so bad, it ended by saying “Machine Head, pretty good, if you never heard of Prong”.
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