DECIBEL MAGAZINE SLAMS “CATHARSIS”, MACHINE HEAD BLASTS DECIBEL MAGAZINE

When a music critic writes an album review, he/she should respect the album and the artist. And on the other hand, when the artist reacts to the review of his/her album, he/she should respect the critic and his point of view. Well, in the case of Machine Head and its new album, “Catharsis”, the whole situation just took a wrong direction. As you can read below, the critic of Decibel Magazine, Jeff Treppel, didn’t like Machine Head’s latest album. But Machine Head reacted in a special way: they posted a short message on Facebook, which contained the phrase, “FUCK YOU Jeff Treppel!!”. We don’t want to take someone’s side, we will just quote all the phrases so that you can decide who is right and who is wrong. But of course, when you post something, you should be polite, don’t you?

This is the review of Jeff Treppel:

MACHINE HEAD – CATHARSIS

EVERYTHING OLD IS NÜ AGAIN

Let’s just tear off this Band-Aid:

The new Machine Head is a 74-minute rap metal album with a song that sounds like the Dropkick Murphys in the middle. Maybe Robb Flynn really misses the late 90’s (although, let’s be honest who doesn’t these days)? Maybe, after a decade of ridiculously great progressive groove metal records, Flynn decided to blow off some steam by going back to “The Bleeding Red’s” knuckle-dragging simplicity?

The frustrating thing about Catharsis is that Machine Head are great even when they’re making bad music. The Soulfly tribal breakdowns on “Volatile,” the drop tuning on “Beyond The Pale,” the whiteboy hip-hop of “Triple Beam” (nothing more “street” than gymnastics metaphors), the anti-gentrification screed “California Bleeding” –they’re effective in the same primal way that the best Rage Against The Machine and Korn hits were back in the day. None of it feels half-assed; these are clearly well-crafted songs.

It’s all just so stupid.

As intermittently satisfying as the nu-metal approach may be, Flynn and his bandmates have proven themselves more than capable of expressing their rage articulately. This feels juvenile from dudes pushing 50. There are certainly some interesting parts mixed in; unfortunately, with 15 songs, any nuances get lost in the endless pummeling.

Frankly, I’m baffled. This is a “Super-Collider”-level miss from a band that seemed to have ditched this phase long ago.

Also, Machine Head should never attempt to sound like the Dropkick Murphys.

And this is the Facebook post of the band:

DECIBEL MAGAZINE SLAMS “CATHARSIS”!
The former-Decibel cover stars new album gets called “juvenile”, “stupid”, “endlessly pummeling” and a “Super Collider-level-miss”.

Oh, and hey… FUCK YOU Jeff Treppel!!