No revelation - still the big screen

As it has already been said so many times, to MH had to leave already compete with Unto the Locust on her album Over The Blackening. And just as it behaves also with the successor Bloodstone & Diamonds. Again not come Machine Head on this level. But they really need it? Can they really do that? I think the chosen path is the right place. The band develops easy consistently, which is always better than to copy themselves repeatedly and thus to fail also.

Bloodstone & Diamonds is absolutely typical opens with a real steamroller and "Now we die" is certainly one of the best tracks of the plate. Fast, aggressive, in the face. As on Unto the Locust but creep in even songs that are indeed really good, but the last shot which genius is missing (Killers & Kings, Eyes of the Dead, Beneath the silt). It is just spoiled, but that is bleating at a high level and as always a matter of taste. The constantly emerging Streicher I personally find absolutely gorgeous. Based on my personal fondness for long songs, the two longest pieces of plate ("Sail Into The Black" and "In Comes The Flood") and my two favorites are then. What is there to drinsteckt intensity and atmosphere of absolute madness. Encouraging the political statements in some songs and with "Imagine Cells" is an entire instrumental with - caution pathos - backed "Statements of the biggest problems of our civilization." The minimalist "Damage Inside" provides lots of goosebumps and "Game Over" will be self-righteous, and then shoots the listener finally the lamps. So there is plenty of variety available.

Machine Head resubmit it clear that they are one of the best metal bands ever. In another review of the comparison was considered that such a consistently high quality was last to marvel at the first works of Metallica. That hits perfect for me. Machine Head are high at the time the benchmark in the field of modern metal and confirm this impressively with Bloodstone & Diamonds.