Supercharger

Supercharger is the fourth album by heavy metal band, Machine Head. It was last album with three-year hiatus to 2002 and 2003.

Release[]

Supercharger was released at the start of October, 2001, just weeks after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. The lead single, "Crashing Around You", was pulled from MTV and rock radio despite being the "most added" track in the United States. The pull was a result of the metaphorical "crashing" lyric in the song and the burning San Francisco skyline in the video. Machine Head's support tour for the album was done without help from their label, Roadrunner Records, and after the release of Hellalive to fulfill their contract led to the band's two year hiatus from the label's American branch.

Despite being a heavier album than The Burning Red, fans of the band are often divided over the legacy of this album. With The Burning Red, the band had changed their sound to correspond with the coming nu metal trend. Supercharger was darker and heavier than The Burning Red, but lacked the groove metal sound of Burn My Eyes and The More Things Change.... Two years later, the band would release Through the Ashes of Empires and return to the groove metal roots.

Track listing[]

"Declaration" - 1:11
"Bulldozer" - 4:35
"White-Knuckle Blackout!" - 3:14
"Crashing Around You" - 3:13
"Kick You When You're Down" - 4:01
"Only the Names" - 6:07
"All in Your Head" - 4:05
"American High" - 3:48
"Brown Acid" - 0:59
"Nausea" - 4:23
"Blank Generation" - 6:38
"Trephination" - 4:58
"Deafening Silence" - 5:33
"Supercharger" - 3:48

Personnel[]

Robb Flynn - vocals, guitar
Ahrue Luster - lead guitar
Adam Duce - bass
Dave McClain - drums