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July 14, 2011, posted by FotherMucker99.

Phil Demmel provides track by track breakdown of Unto The Locust

Brandon Marshall of Sonic Excess recently conducted an interview with guitarist Phil Demmel of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

SONIC EXCESS: With the success of Machine Head’s 2007 release, The Blackening, was there extra pressure while writing and recording Unto The Locust, and did Machine Head have the mentality to bury The Blackening when going into the studio?


PHIL DEMMEL: I don’t think so. I think it was the same pressure that they felt after Supercharger, doing Through The Ashes, or The Blackening. The band always wants to do a different record, and that’s certainly been proven with the discography. I mean, no record has been the same, and that continues to trend. We’ve been writing for ourselves since I’ve been in the band. I can’t speak for before then, but we write for ourselves. That’s what we’ve been doing. We’ve been growing in the music, as people, as friends, and band mates. We’ve grown as brothers and in our everyday lives. So, we see the world from a different perspective now. So, that’s also going to change our moods and the way we write. That’s been the case, for sure. I wouldn’t say there was any more pressure than the last one. You always want to write the best record that you can.

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Source: www.sonicexcess.com