this band helped pave the way for the
new wave of American heavy metal hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Dave for Machine Head about his
idols and their album unto the locust
so we always like to start with the
origin stories of the bends that we
interview so if you wouldn’t mind
telling us how a machine originated she
had originated from home Rob our singer
started the band know at the time
talking like early 90s you know 92 or so
there was a bunch of bands from the bay
area that were metal at one time and now
we’re becoming these monk bands like the
red hot chili peppers Rob wanted
something like you know Pantera
Sepultura a common denominator of music
that we all have you know what I mean
like growing up on mate and stuff and he
wanted a heavy metal band so he port
mashina you mentioned a couple but why
don’t you give us an idea of the music
that you guys all grew up listening to
and kind of you know who you consider
idols and icons for me it was the first
man I ever got into his kiss I have a
sister who’s five years older and she
had her record collection was kiss Black
Sabbath this all kind you know she’s to
lock me in a room and play black sabbath
and make me cry and and then that was
when i was like seven years old so ya
later on when i was when i was ten years
old i was looking through her stuff and
I came across kiss got into them and
then from there like you no rush Judas
Priest
UFO in Lizzie about a couple years into
you know Judas Priest then the whole new
wave of British heavy metal thing came
around with like Iron Maiden a Jewish
and sax and Motorhead all these bands
priest was already heavy but this stuff
just took it to this next level and I
know for me me Robin Phil we all kind of
grew up in that that same era it’s kind
of always stuck with us like those are
still bands that when we’re writing
music we either thinking about them or
we have their posters up in our practice
room or just left this huge mark on us
do you want to tell us what you can
about the unto the locust it was a
three-year tour cycle for the blackening
and in a five-year period of our lives
you know and so by the time we got off
the road we were just we’re ready to
move on to the next like we’ve made a
really really good like an actual like a
really good record where the song locust
is kind of like in the middle of it all
and they’re stuffed it’s like super
brutal above that like this I mean
insanely just crazy subject matters
brutal bass stuff and then there’s also
stuff that’s kind of underneath locusts
which is super super dark and more kind
of more musical and more of like a
couple songs that are actually like
songs
now I I read Rob said something about
how the album was about music as a
religion would you be able to kind of
explain that statement to us he’s got a
family he’s got a wife he’s got two kids
and and and that’s like obviously like a
huge part of his life a huge love of his
lighter and then he’s also got music
which ultimately interferes with that
there’s a part of his brain that no
matter what he’s doing there’s always
like a machine head factory going
there’s something going on in there
music for all of us has always been like
the one thing in our lives that has been
great even when it’s bad even when
things are going bad we want to make it
better because we love doing it so much
so definitely our religion for sure
good lookin thank you very much I do
new wave of American heavy metal hi I’m
Rebecca Brayton and welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re speaking
with Dave for Machine Head about his
idols and their album unto the locust
so we always like to start with the
origin stories of the bends that we
interview so if you wouldn’t mind
telling us how a machine originated she
had originated from home Rob our singer
started the band know at the time
talking like early 90s you know 92 or so
there was a bunch of bands from the bay
area that were metal at one time and now
we’re becoming these monk bands like the
red hot chili peppers Rob wanted
something like you know Pantera
Sepultura a common denominator of music
that we all have you know what I mean
like growing up on mate and stuff and he
wanted a heavy metal band so he port
mashina you mentioned a couple but why
don’t you give us an idea of the music
that you guys all grew up listening to
and kind of you know who you consider
idols and icons for me it was the first
man I ever got into his kiss I have a
sister who’s five years older and she
had her record collection was kiss Black
Sabbath this all kind you know she’s to
lock me in a room and play black sabbath
and make me cry and and then that was
when i was like seven years old so ya
later on when i was when i was ten years
old i was looking through her stuff and
I came across kiss got into them and
then from there like you no rush Judas
Priest
UFO in Lizzie about a couple years into
you know Judas Priest then the whole new
wave of British heavy metal thing came
around with like Iron Maiden a Jewish
and sax and Motorhead all these bands
priest was already heavy but this stuff
just took it to this next level and I
know for me me Robin Phil we all kind of
grew up in that that same era it’s kind
of always stuck with us like those are
still bands that when we’re writing
music we either thinking about them or
we have their posters up in our practice
room or just left this huge mark on us
do you want to tell us what you can
about the unto the locust it was a
three-year tour cycle for the blackening
and in a five-year period of our lives
you know and so by the time we got off
the road we were just we’re ready to
move on to the next like we’ve made a
really really good like an actual like a
really good record where the song locust
is kind of like in the middle of it all
and they’re stuffed it’s like super
brutal above that like this I mean
insanely just crazy subject matters
brutal bass stuff and then there’s also
stuff that’s kind of underneath locusts
which is super super dark and more kind
of more musical and more of like a
couple songs that are actually like
songs
now I I read Rob said something about
how the album was about music as a
religion would you be able to kind of
explain that statement to us he’s got a
family he’s got a wife he’s got two kids
and and and that’s like obviously like a
huge part of his life a huge love of his
lighter and then he’s also got music
which ultimately interferes with that
there’s a part of his brain that no
matter what he’s doing there’s always
like a machine head factory going
there’s something going on in there
music for all of us has always been like
the one thing in our lives that has been
great even when it’s bad even when
things are going bad we want to make it
better because we love doing it so much
so definitely our religion for sure
good lookin thank you very much I do
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