“I’m fortunate enough to work with Jordan [Fish] from Bring Me The Horizon,” Machine Head vocalist Robb Flynn explained to Full Metal Jackie (via Loudwire) when discussing the band’s newest release, UNATØNED, “He’s been a decade-long collaborator of mine. I started working with him on the Bloodstone and Diamonds record.”
“And on this record, I said [to Jordan Fish], “Hey, I really want you to be part of every song and even if you don’t end up on any of the songs, I just want you to be able to collaborate with me and try some stuff and see where it goes,” Flynn recounted, “And it turned out really, really cool having him be part of it because he really just brought this depth and this dimension that I don’t think we’ve had before in a couple songs. But, to hear it all throughout an album just really ties the album together more.”
“It doesn’t feel like a new collaboration,” Flynn continued to explain about Fish’s relationship with Machine Head, “It might sound like a new collaboration to people, but we’re four albums deep with him. I just feel like he’s part of the team at this point.”
As to why Fish has been such a long-time collaborator? “He’s kind of a genius,” Flynn mused, “He just brings this killer [mentality]. Sometimes that guy, I’d be like, ‘Hey, do your ideas and put it on,’ and he’d send me like, 70 tracks of stuff.”
To which Flynn and Zach Ohren, Machine Head producer, “would go through everything and determine what is what.” Sometimes it wasn’t a big change to the track, “sometimes it was just a hi hat or… a shaker or whatever, but then other times it’s layers of strings and layers of piano and layers of sub stuff and cool textures.”
And while not every song on UNATØNED has Fish‘s touch to it – particularly the thrash elements of the record – for the tracks that Fish did help with, he “brought to life the song.”
You can check out Machine Head‘s newest record here.
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