Bloodstone & Diamonds

by Machine Head

Bloodstone & Diamonds cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 7 November 2014
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Country: United States
  • Community rating: 3.6/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Acker Bilk, The Leon Young String Chorale

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The veteran California heavy metal outfit overcomes significant lineup changes to deliver a remarkably ambitious, highly aggressive eighth studio album. 'Bloodstone & Diamonds' perfectly balances their signature, drop-tuned groove metal riffing and Robb Flynn's terrifyingly angry vocal deliveries with surprising symphonic elements and complex, multi-part song structures. It serves as a profoundly dark, fiercely political, and deeply energetic modern metal triumph.

Genres

Descriptors: death, political, technical, progressive, riff-heavy

Tracklist

  1. Now We Die (5:57)
  2. Killers & Kings (4:26)
  3. Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones (4:40)
  4. Night Of Long Knives (8:36)
  5. Sail Into The Black (5:01)
  6. Eyes Of The Dead (3:33)
  7. Beneath The Silt (3:25)
  8. In Comes The Flood (5:22)
  9. Damage Inside (4:09)
  10. Game Over (4:52)
  11. Imaginal Cells (6:11)
  12. Take Me Through The Fire (5:59)

Credits

  • Acker Bilk - primary artist, written-by
  • The Leon Young String Chorale - primary artist
  • Bobby Scott - written-by
  • Ric Marlow - written-by
  • David Berkwood - written-by
  • Bob Merrill - written-by
  • Norrie Paramor - written-by

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