Machine Head’s career has often felt like a rollercoaster – in the best and worst of ways. Although, with high-points as towering as game-changing 1994 debut Burn My Eyes and 2007 masterpiece The Blackening, a degree of drop-off elsewhere was inevitable, mainman Robb Flynn’s ardent, occasionally wayward insistence on not lingering too long on any one sound has often left listeners smacking their foreheads in sheer disbelief at the Oakland bruisers. And yet, they endure. Perhaps it’s the understanding that we never really know what’s coming next that keeps fans coming back. Or perhaps it’s the simple guarantee that even amongst their most divisive work there will be at least flashes of the cut-loose genius that got us onboard in the first place. As pointedly-titled latest single Circle...
