At my previous concert, headlined by The Sam Roberts Band, feel free to revisit the photographs by visiting the link, I somehow managed to lose my ear plugs. Luckily, thanks to the wonders of the internet, a new pair was quickly in my possession because on Tuesday night I was in a Sold-Out MTelus for a night of Heavy Metal Madness, headlined by the King's of what was the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, Machine Head. Self described as the "undisputed masters of murderous riffs, pugnacious grooves and ferocious hooks since 1991", you know what you are in for with a Machine Head concert. Straight ahead music that will leave your head banging until it can bang no longer. The band was formed, poetically enough, in October of 1991 at a Metallica concert and lone original member Robb Flynn has been
churning out his music ever since. Their first album, 'Burn My Eyes', is celebrating its 35th Anniversary this year, but it was their album 'The Blackening' from 2007 that made the world take notice. Machine Head's single 'Aesthetics of Hate' from that album went on to be nominated for a Grammy Award, and though it wasn't included in the three songs we were able to photograph, I stuck around to listen to it as it was the next song on the setlist after we left the pit and I didn't want to miss it. Despite being the fourth band to play that night, the fans were revved up and ready to rock They had survived multiple circle mosh pits and walls of deaths at the behest of the band who played earlier in the night, but the roar from the crowd as their heroes hit the stage was without equal. Except maybe for the roar that was coming from the stage. 
Machine Head's most recent album, and tenth of their career, Of Kingdom And Crown, was released in October of 2022 and has been hailed as many as their best work since The Blackening. Couple with the release of several singles, a double release titled Civil Unrest in 2020 and a Triple release title Arrows in Words From The Sky in 2021, this has been a very productive time for the band. Despite all the new releases, one still can't help but to look forward to what Machine Head might be coming up with next. The first photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/200sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm. The second photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/2000sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm and the third photograph was taken at f/3.2, 1/8000sec, ISO 4000 at 24mm. Here are several more photographs that I took of their performance.
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