I'd say the other members of MH and the band's management are pretty nervous right now. This album is going to tank. Flynn seems to think that the so-called "haterzzzz" are a minority but they are not. The vast majority of the reactions and comments on the new stuff has been overwhelmingly negative and we're already seeing the siege mentality kicking in. I'd even say that the next 'back to metal' album and angle could already be being planned.

To go down the political road 25 years into your career when a lot of your fans are not simply dumb, angry-at-the-world-in-general kids (as, let's face It, most thrashers in the 80s were) is foolhardiness and that's putting it mildly. The very platforms that Flynn is trying to use to put his SJW flavour-of-the-week message out there are the same ones that have contributed significantly to the political divide, meaning that he's now only going to appeal to one of those sides.

I don't agree with those "They can do what they want" attitudes either. If they expect loyal fans to buy an album with the Machine Head name on it but then go and deliver a product that they KNOW (from previous experience) those same fans will not like... fuck's sake, Flynn! You can't have it both ways all the time.

Fully agree with the posts about Flynn's insecurity too. Sums it up better than I ever could.

Semi surprising alright, I don’t think they are in terms of success where flynn imagines they should be in his head. The only surprise is the style, is nu metal making some kind of comeback?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bmolBYHDZI


If you can't stomach much of the above, fast forward to here for pure comedy.

https://youtu.be/5bmolBYHDZI?t=108


I can imagine Robb's intention is to have every hick or patriotic American to be reduced to tears then get them into a full hoe down deliverance style.

Vomit.

Hope Phil Anselmo makes an 11 minute video.

Comparing the official and the acoustic version the latter sounds better. I can kinda see what he was trying to do; a Woody Guthrie protest song. Such songs were aimed at working class poorly-educated people, so needed basic lyrics with a simple and clear message. Nowadays even dumb Americans are a bit smarter and people don't like being patronised.

Some of the comments under the official version are good;

the intro reminds me of the local ice cream truck

Machine Cuck

So this is what a mid-life crisis sounds like

I ain't expecting NOTHING from you, and yet disappointed me...

Cringiest song I've heard this year and 2018 has only started.

A moment of silence for Machine Head, plz

I agree the song is really bad at all.. but I genuinely laughed at 3:32, wtf????

Trash...and worse still...political trash.

I like this more than machine head wearing matching clothes.

Somebody inform Sam Dunn, a new flavour of metal is born: cuck metal.

Another reason to hang myself! Thanks Robb!

I got to the "before you vote" part, and I just can't stop laughing. God, what a joke this is.

LOLOCAUST

Rob saw one episode of Sons of Anarchy and said "that's our image until Adidas jumpsuits and cornrows are back in style

For the sake of your name... you should take this down. Lmao

Good news is you can all vote for Oprah soon :'D

When you´re 50 and you´ve never worked in anything else other than music you´ll probably stoop to the sordid depths of shamelessness that this total windbag stoops to. He´s paying the bills in the only way he can, hopping from one trend to another. I honestly think it won´t be long till he´s Rowena or Roberta Flynn, it all just depends on how many saps he can convert with this latest muck. His balls are literally hanging in the balance.

I haven´t even listened to MH since The More Things Change. They were good for a brief moment in time i.e. Burn Eyes. When Chris Kontos went that was the end for me, he was a savage. Anything else I´ve heard from them has been absolute drivel, I don´t know how they´ve stayed in the limelight for so long.

Juggz has hit on an excellent point here - Flynn might actually end up being hailed as some sort of visionary by the generation of idiot fuck-yeah-bro "metalheads" that we're mired in. That may seem stupid, but in a world where a certified idiot can cut a series of wrestling promos and end up President, never underestimate the value of appealing to lowest-common-denominator stupid fucking hicks.