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Track Listings
| 1. Declaration |
| 2. Bulldozer |
| 3. White-Knuckle Blackout! |
| 4. Crashing Around You |
| 5. Kick You When You're Down |
| 6. Only The Names |
| 7. All In Your Head |
| 8. American High |
| 9. Brown Acid |
| 10. Nausea |
| 11. Blank Generation |
| 12. Trephination |
| 13. Deafening Silence |
| 14. Supercharger |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Machine Head's Supercharger is, at its best, a monumental success. Since their searing debut Burn My Eyes, Machine Head have continuously exhibited that sadly rare quality--musical ambition. Not for them the post-Bush bleatings of Creed or the dumb bulldozing of Limp Bizkit. Machine Head attempt to create ever more varied and meaningful rock soundscapes. Take "Trephination" for example: as Robb Flynn pants his desperate tale of childhood abuse and a consequent self-hatred that can only be cured by a drill to the skull, the guitars buzz like medical instruments before reaching an awful sawing crescendo. It could so easily be clumsy and silly, but the execution is tasteful and effective. Elsewhere, there's the semi-humorous "American High", where a scratcher duels with the lead guitar, and "Nausea" where a horribly distorted guitar engages in a series of deeply unsettling descents--as with "Trephination", the music cleverly and admirably mirrors the lyrics. Elsewhere, there are extraordinary individual performances. During "White Knuckle Blackout", Flynn passes from a Dani Filth shriek through Layne Staley melodics to a furious rap, backed by a mighty guitar and what sounds like the buzz of a printer. During the maudlin "All in Your Head", the guitars rise from staccato riffing to a magnificent, near-orchestral sweep. Unfortunately, these exciting innovations make Machine Head's lapses into bog-standard contemporary rock all the more disappointing. Nevertheless, they should be proud of an album that's three-quarters brilliant. --Dominic Wills
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Generally, the words 'rap-metal' are enough to put most people off an album, mainly because of everyone's previous obsession with Limp Bizkit. That was like a booze-up...a good idea at the time, but you regret it later. The problem is, not all rap-metal is like that. 'Supercharger' has some of the best rap-metal songs around, most notably 'Crashing Around You', and 'All In Your Head'. The only problem is, it's just not what you expect from a band that made albums like 'Burn My Eyes', and the even more excellent 'The More Things Change'. Traditionally (if that's the right word), Machine Head are a bangin band, songs like 'Ten Ton Hammer', 'Take My Scars', 'Davidian' etc proved that, then there was 'The Burning Red' that was leaning towards rap-metal, but still had the old style songs in there, but 'Supercharger' has all but scrapped it. 'Bulldozer', the first song, kind of starts in the way you'd expect Machine Head to be, until the singing starts. The same can almost be said for 'White Knuckle Black Out', arguably one of the better songs on here. But from there, it's almost all rap. And the scratcher on 'American High' was definitely NOT a good move. 'Trephination' seems to be just a re-vamped 'Silver' (from 'The Burning Red'), and there's 'Deafening Silence', a strangely mellow song, that seems to have taken the place of the song 'The Burning Red'. If you have the DigiPack, there are some good additions to it (although mine has a live 'Desire To Fire' instead of 'Rat Race'). 'Hole In The Sky' is a good song, and has a good short drum solo in it. Basically, this album is very good for anyone willing to accept that there is rap-metal beyond what gets in the charts, but if not, and you were a fan of Machine Head's previous three inputs, and hoping for more songs as utterly fantastic as 'Take My Scars' etc, there's disappointment all round. And possibly a four star rating is slightly over-rating it, but that can't be helped, coming from a die-hard Head fan.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
To start this review off, this band's last two albums 'The More Things Change' and 'The Burning Red' are my two most favourite albums ever, so I had a huge expectation for this record.
Ok, starting off...when the band does what they've been known to do, songs like 'Trephination', 'Bulldozer' and Supercharger' are all awe inspiring on speed and their firal pace alone. But thats where the fast, heavy stuff ends.
Thats not to say it's all bad at all, 'Only The Names' and 'Blank Generation' are a return to the darkness of the slower stuff off 'The More Things Change..' and Crashing Around You is just a great song despite it being very melodic. All brilliant.
But the experimentation with melody doesn't always work as well: 'Kick You When Your Down' features melodic vocals that just blunt a song that really wants to go crazy, 'Nausea' sounds like a riled version of Papa Roach with guitar solos and 'A Deafening Silence' is an overblown rehash on The Burning Red's 'Silver'.
Generally, this is the sound of a band that are being complacent. If this wasn't <M|H>, the band that are capable of producing so much better, then I would give it a 4 star but Supercharger has flashes of total brilliance that just makes the rest of the album pale in comparison and knowing what this lineup is capable of just makes it even harder to swallow.
Burn My Eyes thrashed, The More Things Change crushed, The Burning Red seared red raw, Supercharger just limps past. For a band like Machine Head,3 fast heavy songs on a 14 track album does make you wonder what the hell happened.....
Ok, starting off...when the band does what they've been known to do, songs like 'Trephination', 'Bulldozer' and Supercharger' are all awe inspiring on speed and their firal pace alone. But thats where the fast, heavy stuff ends.
Thats not to say it's all bad at all, 'Only The Names' and 'Blank Generation' are a return to the darkness of the slower stuff off 'The More Things Change..' and Crashing Around You is just a great song despite it being very melodic. All brilliant.
But the experimentation with melody doesn't always work as well: 'Kick You When Your Down' features melodic vocals that just blunt a song that really wants to go crazy, 'Nausea' sounds like a riled version of Papa Roach with guitar solos and 'A Deafening Silence' is an overblown rehash on The Burning Red's 'Silver'.
Generally, this is the sound of a band that are being complacent. If this wasn't <M|H>, the band that are capable of producing so much better, then I would give it a 4 star but Supercharger has flashes of total brilliance that just makes the rest of the album pale in comparison and knowing what this lineup is capable of just makes it even harder to swallow.
Burn My Eyes thrashed, The More Things Change crushed, The Burning Red seared red raw, Supercharger just limps past. For a band like Machine Head,3 fast heavy songs on a 14 track album does make you wonder what the hell happened.....
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Some amazingly raw metal is brutally dealt out in this explosive cd. But this is a mellow cd compared to previous releases from this huge band so if it's truly heavy you want, get the backdated Machine Head cd's then get this one! The guitar riffs on every song are infectious and yet they manage to produce some of the sludgiest sounds in a long time. The drumming provides an incredible backdrop to all the songs, both powerful and perfectly in-time with some amazing play-offs between the voclaist and the drumming building up the momentum as the song progresses. The vocals range from shouting to pure rap, a good mixture of both. Robb Flynn's voice is as always on phenomenal form on this cd as well as on the live rounds he did to support the album. He has such aggression behind his voice that you can't help but listen to him and believe he is putting his heart, his soul, his blood, sweat and tears into the music he's creating.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Machine Head - Supercharger
Supercharger isn't a bad album and it's the first MH album I heard so I'm quite thankful to it really. Read more
Published 9 months ago by N. Green
Machine Head - Supercharger
Machine Head's fourth studio album Supercharger was released in 2001 to a reaction of almost universal disapproval. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Gentlegiantprog
buy anyother machine head album, but not this.
I managed to get a copy of this a day before its release several years ago, and was very excited to get home and listen to it. after several listens i was soon disapointed. Read more
Published 18 months ago by matt edmondo
super f**king charger
machine head come to my attention years ago after hearing about their classic debut burn my eyes but the albums keep getting better and better over the years and supercharger is... Read more
Published on 24 July 2007 by Mrs. Jayne M. Jarvis
it's not MH, it's not metal
this album is good in it's own right, but:
1) it doesnt sound remotely like machine head
and 2)this should never, EVER have been sold as a metal album. Read more
1) it doesnt sound remotely like machine head
and 2)this should never, EVER have been sold as a metal album. Read more
Published on 10 Mar 2007 by Pyriel
Good but pretty disappointing overall
I was really looking forward to this album. Not because I was hoping it would be another Burn My Eyes, but because I just really like Machine Head and was simply hoping for a... Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2001
one hell of an album
the buring red is better but tracks like 'Crashing Around You' and 'Bulldozer' make this another master peice from robb flynn and the MH boys! Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2001 by "fatherjimmy4"
Brilliant
Having set the world alight with 1994's 'Burn My Eyes', MH's last album ('99's 'The Burning Red') alienated some listeners with it's hip-hop and nu-metal influences. Read more
Published on 26 Sep 2001 by Ben Saunders
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