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Machine Head: Supercharger Mallcore/Nu-Metal, Rapcore Roadrunner Records October 2nd, 2001
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Review
Supercharger shows that Machine Head has no intentions of letting up on the Nu-Metal sound that they incorporated on their last effort, The Burning Red, as well as the rap music and vocals that appeared on that one as well. After much negativity towards their most recent attempt, it's shocking that Machine Head would actually progress further into this field and attempt to perfect the sound, but they did it, and turned another real winner of an album. You wouldn't really know that this was going to be yet another poorly orchestrated nu-metal rapcore album by the start of it. After the insane annoying introduction track "Declaration" has pierced your ear drums and made you scramble for the skip forward button, you're greeted with "Bulldozer" which is actually a decent song until it starts to just drone on and on near the end. This has been implimented in the past, but seems to really be pushed moreso with this release, as many of the songs on here have that aspect to them, but either way this is one of the better tracks the band has recorded in a while, and will make you happy until "White-Knuckle Blackout!" kicks in with it's generic music and random rap outburst at the end. And no, it doesn't get any better from there either. Basically we're greeted with the same crap as before: More rather poor, generic music, rapping, annoying clean singing, but this time it's gotten worse. The music has become far more simplified and sometimes, like on "Kick You When You're Down", just becomes one hell of a clusterfuck. Aside that, the band seems to be happy settling into the whole scream the verse, sing the chorus philosophy of song writing as practically every song has this pattern to them. It'd be nice if the band had a solid song structure like that though, as many of the songs are rather sporadic with the vocals and music, like "White-Knuckle Bailout!" and "American High". The only decent tracks on the album really worth listening to are "Bulldozer" because it kind of broke the mold that was set for this release, and "All In Your Head" because of how well the song is actually executed, and there's a positive emphasis on the vocals throughout, instead of them sounding rather bland and off tone with the music. Supercharer really isn't even worth a second look. With it, Machine Head tries to incorporate their old Groove sound and fail, while trying to emulate nu-metal acts like Slipknot and Korn. What else can be said about this album except that there really isn't anything too positive about it aside that it'd make a good coaster, and that today you can probably find it for pennies. With only two, maybe three decent tracks on the release, Supercharger both surpasses and falls behind their previous release, and unless something drastic changes, there's no saving this one decent act.
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