Bloodstone & amp; Diamonds is the eighth full-length studio album by American heavy metal band Machine Machine, released by Nuclear Blast on November 7, 2014. This is the first album featuring Jared MacEachern replacing the founding bassist Adam Duce in 2013. Although the album lacks the title track , the album got its name from the lyrics of the opening song and the second single "Now We Die".
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The album was once again mixed by Colin Richardson with additional tracking, editing, and mixing by Andy Sneap and Steve Lagudi. All album art is performed by Travis Shinn. Bloodstone & amp; Diamonds is the band's first album not to be released on Roadrunner Records.
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Lyrics and themes
As with previous Machine Head releases, the album lyrics detailed political and social themes, especially civil unrest, discontent and injustice, often with cruel conclusions. "Night of Long Knives" is not about RÃÆ'¶hm-Putsch, but the murder of the Manson Family in Hollywood in 1969.
"Imaginal Cells" is an instrumental featuring samples from audiobook Spontaneous Evolution by Dr. Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman.
Reception
The album was greeted with universal praise by music critics, with Dom Lawson of The Guardian writing "Attacking a beautiful balance between brute force, urgent melody and bold experiments, this is the best mainstream metal album of 2014 by a very large margin. "In the first week of release, the album debuted at # 21 on The Billboard 200 chart, becoming the band's highest chart album ever.
Track list
Credit
Robb Flynn - main vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboard (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8), string arrangement (1, 5, 8), percussion (5)Additional personnel
- Rhys Fulber - keyboard & amp; string arrangement (1, 5), percussion (5)
- Jordan Fish (from Bring Me the Horizon) - keyboard (3, 8, 9), string arrangement (8)
- Kathryn Marshall, Eugenia Wie, Chad Kaltinger, and Vanessa Ruotolo - string (track 1)
- Phillip Brezina, Charles Akert and Ivo Bukolic - string (track 8)
Production
- Andy Sneap - track, edit
- Colin Richardson - mixing
- Juan Urteaga - production, technique
- Lee Bothwick - technique
- Steve Lagudi - technique
- Ted Jensen - master
- Strephon Taylor - design, layout
Diagram
References
External links
- Bloodstone & amp; Diamonds in AllMusic
- Bloodstone & amp; Diamonds in Nuclear Blast
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