Watch: MACHINE HEAD’s ROBB FLYNN Performs BLACK SABBATH Covers With San Francisco Bay Area Tribute Band

Rob Flynn (MACHINE HEAD) and Craig Locicero (FORBIDDEN) joined the BLACK SABBATH tribute band BACK STABBATH on stage on March 19 on the Elbo Room Jack London in Oakland, California to carry out a set of BLACK SABBATH classics. Fan-filmed video of the live performance is out there beneath.

Again in 2015, Flynn instructed Steel Speak that he was 13 years previous when he was first launched to SABBATH‘s music.

“My household moved round so much so it was form of arduous to make buddies,” he recalled. “As a child, I used to be fairly introverted. The one factor I did get actually into was Bruce Lee; I used to be obsessive about him. My dad signed me as much as take judo and jiu-jitsu classes with this man who took me underneath his wing and introduced out numerous confidence in me. I obtained to be an orange belt, about midway in direction of black belt.”

After one other transfer, Flynn discovered himself away from his mentor and in a brand new surroundings the place he was sparring with older youngsters. “I am going up towards dudes who have been turning into males,” he remembered. “They only kicked my ass — they beat the crap out of me.

“My new sensei demoted me from orange belt again right down to a yellow belt, and I used to be livid. I used to be, like, ‘Fuck this.’ Per week later, my buddy Elvis stated, ‘Let’s go smoke weed.’ We raided his dad’s stash and obtained excessive.”

In line with Flynn, a turning level got here when his buddy placed on SABBATH‘s “We Bought Our Souls For Rock’N’Roll”. “It had this creepy image of this useless lady in a coffin and he or she’s obtained this enormous chrome cross laying on her chest,” he stated. “I simply bear in mind being excessive as fuck and frightened of the music that was popping out of the audio system. I had by no means heard something so terrifying and darkish and evil. It was a revelation. I needed to make the sound that was popping out of the audio system. I did not know what it was, or the right way to do it. However they have been the band that made me wish to smoke weed, fuck ladies, get snowblind and get drunk. And play the darkest, heaviest, most excessive stuff that I might get my arms on.”

MACHINE HEAD not too long ago accomplished work on a brand new full-length album for a tentative summer season launch. A lot of the LP was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, California with producer Zack Ohren.

MACHINE HEAD will crew up with Sweden’s Viking steel overlords AMON AMARTH for a co-headline “Vikings And Lionhearts” European enviornment tour in September and October. Help on the trek will come from THE HALO EFFECT, the brand new band that includes 5 former members of IN FLAMES: Peter Iwers, Daniel Svensson, Jesper Strömblad, Niclas Engelin and Mikael Stanne.

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