Machine Head have taken a lot of shit over the years. Counterpointing genre-defining classics Burn My Eyes and The Blackening with far more divisive offerings like Catharsis and The Burning Red, critics and fickle fans alike have been as quick to criticise their more experimental urges as they have to praise their self-evident triumphs. Over the decades, though mainman Robb Flynn has learned not to let it stick, and having proven his band’s ability to overcome the departure of half its line-up with 2022’s excellent ØF KINGDØM AND CRØWN he’s back on defiantly unfettered form with eleventh album UNATØNED. Aesthetically, this seems to be a sort-of sequel to ØK&C boasting similar artwork revolving around horned skulls, and the same bewildering obsession with replacing the le...