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"An Evening With ..." Machine Head: Thrash giants come to Germany for eight shows in April/May 2026! In their luggage: their 11th album "Unatøned"

Presented by Metal Hammer, Rock Antenne and curt

Even after more than three decades have passed since the release of their legendary debut album "Burn My Eyes", Californian metal giants Machine Head are still one of the most vital and successful bands in the history of global thrash metal. Stylistically always on the pulse of the present, at the same time significantly independent and therefore absolutely timeless, the quartet played their way into the hearts and into the top star league of the global metal community with their first album despite their uncompromising, massively rumbling sound aesthetic - and have maintained this exposed status with every album since then. In Germany in particular, their current 11th album "Unatøned", which was released last April, has climbed into the top ten of the German album charts, just like its four predecessors. After the band only played one club show in Germany on their last visit to Europe in 2024, which sold out completely in no time at all between numerous festival engagements, they are offering their long-standing fans the full pampering program on their upcoming tour: between 13 April and 8 May 2026, they will be coming to us for eight concerts in Hamburg, Berlin, Zwickau, Munich, Saarbrücken, Ludwigsburg, Wiesbaden and Cologne - without special guests, completely intimate as 'An Evening With ...' shows. Machine Head are among the representatives of their genre who are constantly looking ahead. They are constantly redefining themselves and their sound, playing with set pieces from speed, dark and groove metal - and yet in the end they are always completely themselves. The formation around the gifted front shouter and guitarist Robert Flynn is regarded alongside Pantera and Sepultura as a blueprint for a modern, driven version of metal. With their debut "Burn My Eyes" in 1994, Machine Head gained worldwide recognition and revitalized thrash metal with brutal sounds. Even then, it was clear that their unrestrained style was hitting a nerve. Whether in the USA, England, Germany or Scandinavia - the album soon reached the top 30 in the charts everywhere. The successors "The More Things Change..." (1997), "The Burning Red" (1999), "Supercharger" (2001), "Through The Ashes Of Empires" (2003), "The Blackening" (2007) and "Unto The Locust" (2011), "Bloodstone & Diamonds" (2014), "Catharsis" (2018), "Of Kingdom and Crown" (2022) and the current "Unatøned" also found themselves in the international charts and received numerous industry awards - despite their desire for uninterrupted change. As such, "Unatøned", which is stylistically based on the heavy groove metal of their debut album, is a direct alternative to their previous concept album: instead of sprawling prog-metal reels of up to ten minutes in length, the new songs all deliberately stay under the four-minute mark and focus on surprising changes in harmony and mood that are not usually found in thrash metal.