KoRn like Ross Robinson as producer might be good, but machinehead he does no good at all on this album! The straighte sound of the other albums is not achieved with this LP. In general we can no longer call this machinehead really metal. At best new metal. The beautiful thrash metal sound of the other albums on this album not to sehen.Von the vocals of Robby need you so do not talk. At his place Grouls by Andren albums you can hear him rap here and not even particularly good. Nevertheless, 'there are positive exceptions to this album, the title "The Blood The Sweat The Tears" and "five" knock but beautifully pure. So all in all, you can still give everything great Machine Head fan three stars!