Band: Machine Head
Album: Unto The Locust
Release Date: 27 September 2011
Album: Unto The Locust
Release Date: 27 September 2011
Genre: Groove/Thrash Metal
Label: Roadrunner Records
Cover Art: Paul Gerrard
Producer by: Robb Flynn
- Line Up CD: from left -
* Phil Demmel:
Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Adam Duce:
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Robb Flynn:
Vocal, Rhythm & Lead Guitar
* Dave McClain:
Drums
01. I Am Hell (Sonata In C#) - Lyrics:
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh) [I am death -?-] - 4x.
Sun gre sani (Oooh) [I am death -?-] (bella doni -?-) - 8x.
Ooooh!!!
I - am death
Arms - held - outstretched
I - am hell
Born - this - mortal shell
I - am wrath
Take - this - bloodbath
God sent me to kill you
What started out as wonder
The smell of scorched earth
It filled me with a sense of bliss
Inside my head the noises show they thundered
With cracking and hiss
One match
Killed the anguish
One act
Left me fulfilled
Destruction now the only catalyst
To save this soul
From these thoughtless kills
Where once a heart was beating
Nothing but embers glow
Our love it serves as kindling
To stoke this flames inferno
I am hell to thee
Down here all shall suffer with me
Die - purified
Rise the ashes to the sky
Obsession born of young lust
Incomprehensible the feelings as they come to pass
But now betrayal slowly turns to bloodlust
Through sulphur and gas
Ignite - this crime of passion
Loves pyre - is set a blaze
The charred remains of all Compassion
Was the spark that lit
Your immolation
Where once a heart was beating
Nothing but embers glow
Our love it serves as kindling
To stoke this flames inferno
I am hell to thee
Down here all shall suffer with me
Die - purified
Rise the ashes to the sky
So burn
I'll burn it down
I'll burn you down
So you'll - never - love - again
Not again
Where once a heart was beating
Nothing but embers glow
Our love it serves as kindling
To stoke this flames inferno
I am hell to thee
Down here all shall suffer with me
Die - purified
Rise the ashes of your immolation
I - Am - Hell
In the ashes of your immolation.
02. Be Still And Know - Lyrics:
In this struggle
Are we dead or alive?
Freedom is not existence
It's how we survive
Shake our grief
Hold on to belief
It can't enslave us forever
There is relief
No change will be permanent
Our strength enduring bright incandescent
Take a chance before we fall
Pressed against the wall
And the sun will rise
Dawn will break through blackest night
Distant in its glow
This shall pass be still and know
Where there's heartache
As we search to connect
Even just for a moment
Pretend we're content
There is love
Know that we are one
We are all in this
Together weather the storm
Look into each other's eyes
Make the connection before it dies
It will all disseminate
As we consummate
And the sun will rise
Dawn will break through blackest night
Distant in its glow
This shall pass be still and know
Is it hopeless?
Will the fear take control?
Don't succumb to the numbing
Sting of defeat
Take this hate
Let the bile stagnate
Hoist the head of Goliath
Bask in its grace
Stars realign in the sky
Glaciers will melt and the oceans rise
Waves will come crashing ashore
But withstand the roar
And the sun will rise
Dawn will break through blackest night
Distant in its glow
This shall pass be still and know.
03. Locust - Lyrics:
Sweet caress
Grazes my skin
It's loveless
These hooks sink in
Behind an angel's disguise
An insect preys
Mandibles cut like a knife
The reckoning
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending down
Down they come
The swarm of locusts
Skies above
Converge to choke us
Feast of souls
Consume the harvest
Young and old
Suffer unto the locust
Surrender
These veins are bled
Devoured
Nothing sacred
Strings pull the marionettes
See how they dance
Upon the winds that beget
Our pestilence
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending down
Down they come
The swarm of locusts
Skies above
Converge to choke us
Feast of souls
Consume the harvest
Young and old
Suffer unto the locust
Bleeding from my eyes
This plague is sent to erase us
Bleeding from inside
These vermin can't infiltrate us
Faith appears and holds a candle
Hark the angels sing
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Tear the veil
The lies derail
Purity ever will prevail
Trumpets sound
The shattered crown
Halos of truth now they surround
The charade comes down
Down they come
The swarm of locusts
Skies above
Converge to choke us
Feast of souls
Consume the harvest
Young and old
Suffer unto the locust.
04. This Is The End - Lyrics:
This, ends, now!
This ends now
And I dont care about last year
Can't be afraid of what the future holds, no fear
You want the past and the safety it brings
It doesn't mean anything!
We've come to far
There's no going back now
Bring on the future with an open embrace
Memories I will erase
Memories I will erase
This is the end
This is the end of chasing dreams gone by
Everlong is this goodbye and this
This is the end
This is the end of our respect denied
Stand with us or stand aside
Only now
Do you pretend to care about this
You suffocated anything that came between us
Took every condescending barb and sting
I don't owe you anything
So here we stand
Farewell is forever
And if you think that it's joke or lie
Look me in these blackened eyes
Look me in these blackened eyes
This is the end
This is the end of chasing dreams gone by
Everlong is this goodbye and this
This is the end
This is the end of our respect denied
Stand with us or stand aside
Bastards, you bastards
May you suffer oh so long (oh so long)
Bastards, you bastards
So long
Brothers, my brothers
Why have you forsaken me? (forsaken me)
Brothers, my brothers
So be
Deny those that will never accept
Empty words are just empty regrets
Let go the bile that your soul has amassed
With this let the dye be cast
This is the end
This is the end of chasing dreams gone by
Everlong is this goodbye and this
This is the end
This is the end of our respect denied
Stand with us or stand aside.
05. Darkness Within - Lyrics:
Here in this darkness that I lay
Depression heavy in its way
And how my body aches to leave
And sing its final eulogy
My sons I love you evermore
And though the road beckons once more
I see the damage that I've done
And search for redemption
But I am just a broken man
Whose soul cries out to understand
How the madness shatters me
Upon the stage on bended knee
I scream aloud at skies above
That answer mute, bereft in love
I struggle not to fall from grace
I sing the hymns of my disgrace
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
Mystery's forgotten chords
I strum in vain to please the lord
But he has never answered me
And faith has waned eternally
In empty men who pass along
The woes of all religions wrong
And now the shadowed veil it falls
Heed the clarion call
So pray to music
Build a shrine
Worship in these desperate times
Fill your heart with every note
Cherish it and cast afloat
Because God is in these clef and tone
Salvation is found alone
Haunted by its melody
Music, it will set you free (let it set you free)
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
Do Do Do....
Woah, Woah...
WOAH!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
We build cathedrals to our pain (WOAH...!!!)
Establish monuments to attain (WOAH...!!!)
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins (WOAH...!!!)
Lest we drown in the darkness within (WOAH...!!!)
Do Do Do...
06. Pearls Before The Swine - Lyrics:
Lie - In this state
Of perdition
Never to awake
It negates
An admission
Stricken by fate
There's no salvation
It dwells in your bones
There's no remission
This sickness it owns
Make love to denial her sober embrace
Nails they've embedded never to release
In madness we shall reign
Down - out
In madness we shall reign
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
I - numb it down
Heavens fleeting
Kiss envelops
Thee - It surrounds
So in vain we stab at the beast
Count the 12 times you step equal 12 times you fail
No abstination relapse tip the scale
As you swallow the hook
And you chew on the line
Choke on the sinker
In this sea of lies
In madness we shall reign
Down - out
In madness we shall reign
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
Broke vows and broken rosaries
Bind these rusted hopeless dreams
Broke vows and broken rosaries
Bind these rusted hands in prayer
Faith trust and love are mowed down lonely
In these killing fields
Deep in the throes of addiction
Now my blood's running black
My fixation is caught in its clutches
As the sun sets on my soul
In endless twilight
It is eclipsed
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
Slowly we dance with temptation
Good intentions are sold
For the price of fool's gold and sedation
Take now this demon by its hand
And slice it off
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
Take the ache beneath my bones
Peel the skin away and leave my body exposed
No grace awaits this broken soul.
07. Who We Are - Lyrics:
(This is who we are)
(This is what I am)
(We have no where else to go)
(Devided we will stand)
This is who we are
This is what I am
We have no where else to go
Devided we will stand
We are the ugly
Beaten and torn
Brooding with power and ready for more
We are the hungry
Sick of this world
Of robbers of thieving Of vultures unfurled
We have been left on our own
Be all the lost longing for home
We are the unwanted lives
Strung out and angry the deprived
We are the young
And young at heart
The strong and the brave that are destined to start
We are the change
The world needs to see
Look in our eyes and see our belief
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
We are the broken
Meant to be left
Damaged and headless
Like dolls in a chest
We are the future
Seeds that you've sown
In dirt that won't ever grow turns now to stone
We have been hung out to dry
We are the drunken We are the high
We despise this human race
Look in our eyes and see your disgrace
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
Dream
Dream
Into glory we will ride
Be unbridled in determination
Burn the seasons
Into glory we will ride
Be unbridled in determination
Burn the seasons
We are the savage
Meant to be brought to justice
To be thrown in jail and left to rot
We are the other American dream
Whose characters fight for their lives
And they scream
We have been left disavowed
Those of the black
Not of the shroud
We won't hear religious lies
Their God has left us to die
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand.
Cover Art: Paul Gerrard
Producer by: Robb Flynn
* Phil Demmel:
Lead & Rhythm Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Adam Duce:
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals
* Robb Flynn:
Vocal, Rhythm & Lead Guitar
* Dave McClain:
Drums
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01. I Am Hell (Sonata In C#) - Lyrics:
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh)
Sun gre sani (Oooh) [I am death -?-] - 4x.
Sun gre sani (Oooh) [I am death -?-] (bella doni -?-) - 8x.
Ooooh!!!
I - am death
Arms - held - outstretched
I - am hell
Born - this - mortal shell
I - am wrath
Take - this - bloodbath
God sent me to kill you
What started out as wonder
The smell of scorched earth
It filled me with a sense of bliss
Inside my head the noises show they thundered
With cracking and hiss
One match
Killed the anguish
One act
Left me fulfilled
Destruction now the only catalyst
To save this soul
From these thoughtless kills
Where once a heart was beating
Nothing but embers glow
Our love it serves as kindling
To stoke this flames inferno
I am hell to thee
Down here all shall suffer with me
Die - purified
Rise the ashes to the sky
Obsession born of young lust
Incomprehensible the feelings as they come to pass
But now betrayal slowly turns to bloodlust
Through sulphur and gas
Ignite - this crime of passion
Loves pyre - is set a blaze
The charred remains of all Compassion
Was the spark that lit
Your immolation
Where once a heart was beating
Nothing but embers glow
Our love it serves as kindling
To stoke this flames inferno
I am hell to thee
Down here all shall suffer with me
Die - purified
Rise the ashes to the sky
So burn
I'll burn it down
I'll burn you down
So you'll - never - love - again
Not again
Where once a heart was beating
Nothing but embers glow
Our love it serves as kindling
To stoke this flames inferno
I am hell to thee
Down here all shall suffer with me
Die - purified
Rise the ashes of your immolation
I - Am - Hell
In the ashes of your immolation.
02. Be Still And Know - Lyrics:
In this struggle
Are we dead or alive?
Freedom is not existence
It's how we survive
Shake our grief
Hold on to belief
It can't enslave us forever
There is relief
No change will be permanent
Our strength enduring bright incandescent
Take a chance before we fall
Pressed against the wall
And the sun will rise
Dawn will break through blackest night
Distant in its glow
This shall pass be still and know
Where there's heartache
As we search to connect
Even just for a moment
Pretend we're content
There is love
Know that we are one
We are all in this
Together weather the storm
Look into each other's eyes
Make the connection before it dies
It will all disseminate
As we consummate
And the sun will rise
Dawn will break through blackest night
Distant in its glow
This shall pass be still and know
Is it hopeless?
Will the fear take control?
Don't succumb to the numbing
Sting of defeat
Take this hate
Let the bile stagnate
Hoist the head of Goliath
Bask in its grace
Stars realign in the sky
Glaciers will melt and the oceans rise
Waves will come crashing ashore
But withstand the roar
And the sun will rise
Dawn will break through blackest night
Distant in its glow
This shall pass be still and know.
03. Locust - Lyrics:
Sweet caress
Grazes my skin
It's loveless
These hooks sink in
Behind an angel's disguise
An insect preys
Mandibles cut like a knife
The reckoning
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending down
Down they come
The swarm of locusts
Skies above
Converge to choke us
Feast of souls
Consume the harvest
Young and old
Suffer unto the locust
Surrender
These veins are bled
Devoured
Nothing sacred
Strings pull the marionettes
See how they dance
Upon the winds that beget
Our pestilence
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Descending down
Down they come
The swarm of locusts
Skies above
Converge to choke us
Feast of souls
Consume the harvest
Young and old
Suffer unto the locust
Bleeding from my eyes
This plague is sent to erase us
Bleeding from inside
These vermin can't infiltrate us
Faith appears and holds a candle
Hark the angels sing
Forming clouds
Their shadow shrouds
Louder the tattered wings they sound
Tear the veil
The lies derail
Purity ever will prevail
Trumpets sound
The shattered crown
Halos of truth now they surround
The charade comes down
Down they come
The swarm of locusts
Skies above
Converge to choke us
Feast of souls
Consume the harvest
Young and old
Suffer unto the locust.
04. This Is The End - Lyrics:
This, ends, now!
This ends now
And I dont care about last year
Can't be afraid of what the future holds, no fear
You want the past and the safety it brings
It doesn't mean anything!
We've come to far
There's no going back now
Bring on the future with an open embrace
Memories I will erase
Memories I will erase
This is the end
This is the end of chasing dreams gone by
Everlong is this goodbye and this
This is the end
This is the end of our respect denied
Stand with us or stand aside
Only now
Do you pretend to care about this
You suffocated anything that came between us
Took every condescending barb and sting
I don't owe you anything
So here we stand
Farewell is forever
And if you think that it's joke or lie
Look me in these blackened eyes
Look me in these blackened eyes
This is the end
This is the end of chasing dreams gone by
Everlong is this goodbye and this
This is the end
This is the end of our respect denied
Stand with us or stand aside
Bastards, you bastards
May you suffer oh so long (oh so long)
Bastards, you bastards
So long
Brothers, my brothers
Why have you forsaken me? (forsaken me)
Brothers, my brothers
So be
Deny those that will never accept
Empty words are just empty regrets
Let go the bile that your soul has amassed
With this let the dye be cast
This is the end
This is the end of chasing dreams gone by
Everlong is this goodbye and this
This is the end
This is the end of our respect denied
Stand with us or stand aside.
05. Darkness Within - Lyrics:
Here in this darkness that I lay
Depression heavy in its way
And how my body aches to leave
And sing its final eulogy
My sons I love you evermore
And though the road beckons once more
I see the damage that I've done
And search for redemption
But I am just a broken man
Whose soul cries out to understand
How the madness shatters me
Upon the stage on bended knee
I scream aloud at skies above
That answer mute, bereft in love
I struggle not to fall from grace
I sing the hymns of my disgrace
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
Mystery's forgotten chords
I strum in vain to please the lord
But he has never answered me
And faith has waned eternally
In empty men who pass along
The woes of all religions wrong
And now the shadowed veil it falls
Heed the clarion call
So pray to music
Build a shrine
Worship in these desperate times
Fill your heart with every note
Cherish it and cast afloat
Because God is in these clef and tone
Salvation is found alone
Haunted by its melody
Music, it will set you free (let it set you free)
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
Do Do Do....
Woah, Woah...
WOAH!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
MUSIC MY SAVIOR!!!
SAVE ME!!!
We build cathedrals to our pain
Establish monuments to attain
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins
Lest we drown in the darkness within
We build cathedrals to our pain (WOAH...!!!)
Establish monuments to attain (WOAH...!!!)
Freedom from all of the scars and the sins (WOAH...!!!)
Lest we drown in the darkness within (WOAH...!!!)
Do Do Do...
06. Pearls Before The Swine - Lyrics:
Lie - In this state
Of perdition
Never to awake
It negates
An admission
Stricken by fate
There's no salvation
It dwells in your bones
There's no remission
This sickness it owns
Make love to denial her sober embrace
Nails they've embedded never to release
In madness we shall reign
Down - out
In madness we shall reign
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
I - numb it down
Heavens fleeting
Kiss envelops
Thee - It surrounds
So in vain we stab at the beast
Count the 12 times you step equal 12 times you fail
No abstination relapse tip the scale
As you swallow the hook
And you chew on the line
Choke on the sinker
In this sea of lies
In madness we shall reign
Down - out
In madness we shall reign
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
Broke vows and broken rosaries
Bind these rusted hopeless dreams
Broke vows and broken rosaries
Bind these rusted hands in prayer
Faith trust and love are mowed down lonely
In these killing fields
Deep in the throes of addiction
Now my blood's running black
My fixation is caught in its clutches
As the sun sets on my soul
In endless twilight
It is eclipsed
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
Slowly we dance with temptation
Good intentions are sold
For the price of fool's gold and sedation
Take now this demon by its hand
And slice it off
Hail our Mary our divine
Littered souls across a great divide
In our obsession thou cast
Pearls before the swine
Take the ache beneath my bones
Peel the skin away and leave my body exposed
No grace awaits this broken soul.
07. Who We Are - Lyrics:
(This is who we are)
(This is what I am)
(We have no where else to go)
(Devided we will stand)
This is who we are
This is what I am
We have no where else to go
Devided we will stand
We are the ugly
Beaten and torn
Brooding with power and ready for more
We are the hungry
Sick of this world
Of robbers of thieving Of vultures unfurled
We have been left on our own
Be all the lost longing for home
We are the unwanted lives
Strung out and angry the deprived
We are the young
And young at heart
The strong and the brave that are destined to start
We are the change
The world needs to see
Look in our eyes and see our belief
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
We are the broken
Meant to be left
Damaged and headless
Like dolls in a chest
We are the future
Seeds that you've sown
In dirt that won't ever grow turns now to stone
We have been hung out to dry
We are the drunken We are the high
We despise this human race
Look in our eyes and see your disgrace
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
Dream
Dream
Into glory we will ride
Be unbridled in determination
Burn the seasons
Into glory we will ride
Be unbridled in determination
Burn the seasons
We are the savage
Meant to be brought to justice
To be thrown in jail and left to rot
We are the other American dream
Whose characters fight for their lives
And they scream
We have been left disavowed
Those of the black
Not of the shroud
We won't hear religious lies
Their God has left us to die
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand
This is who we are (This is who we are)
This is what I am (This is what I am)
We have nowhere else to go
Divided we will stand.
