It's still (larger) ?!

After an initial review along with it the following addendum I come now, two weeks later ie after the original review, the conclusion that I was the album truly unfair. I have to admit even I really could not do justice to him - so close to publication.
But now, two weeks, runs in the mid double-digit range later, I have to be stated: Machine Head have with "Bloodstone & Diamonds" perhaps - come but what is in the few weeks yet - the delivered metal album of the year 2014 (!).

Yes, at the beginning of act the twelve pieces overloaded that suggestion of guys around Flynn, though likely to be known that the scepter belongs to him, simply "ambitious" in Music Rating political speech. But that is also not surprising, because yes (the quasi comeback) and "The Blackening" go qua "Through the Ashes of Empires" two albums into the account of the recent band's history, according to which nothing more could come.
And yet you did with "Unto the Locust" the level and thus placed himself between the two said. The expectations from the current work was correspondingly large and research. And so could fully convince with a sweeping blow in the band also historical context; because "Bloodstone ..." is Machine Head in its purest form, including several set pieces that recall the good old and streaky mean times - in the latter case, however, they peck out the beauties, how the grandiose, somehow pop-catchy "Game Over "can be heard, which somehow" "reminds (the song) Supercharger.

In general, it creates the band, although felt hyper concentrated (and therefore "ambitious"), a hybrid of "Through the Ashes ..." and "The Blackening" deliver, which one would hardly have thought possible.
The Epicness the "black album" is not quite exhausted and would also supposedly been wrong way, but with "The Night of Long Knives" and the atypical "Sail Into The Black" that two such large numbers are represented that some other band alone it would have at least a half album tinkered. In this dance you could still "The Now We 'classified, however, that would fit even more perfectly on" Unto the Locust ".
"Through the Ashes ..." then appears in the more compact numbers repeatedly through, such as. In "Beneath the silt" and the congenial "In Comes the Flood" as well as the compressed "Killers and Kings", but that again so bundled comes across that the band has created their most entertaining song hereby well to date.
"Damage Inside" has a little something about "Descend the Shades of Night", but would so formulated probably become purebred ballad, which would be the flow of the album is not good standing - so there remains an intermediate piece in front of the aforementioned grandiose "Game Over ". On the turn, followed with "imaginal cells" as the penultimate piece of the 2014er equivalent of "Real Eyes. Realize. Real Lies".

In short, all in all: Machine Head proving their status, they still prove rather himself (again!); they provide in some ways even a Best of from the best sense and lay on three of their best songs so far ("Sail ...", "In Comes the Flood" and "Game Over").
Issue a recommendation to buy, would scorn. Here you have ran a Buy order !!