Catharsis
Catharsis gathers Machine Head’s anger, social gaze and personal feeling in its most expansive form.
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Track List
- Volatile
- Catharsis
- Beyond the Pale
- California Bleeding
- Triple Beam
- Kaleidoscope
- Bastards
- Hope Begets Hope
- Screaming at the Sun
- Behind a Mask
- Heavy Lies the Crown
- Psychotic
- Grind You Down
- Razorblade Smile
- Eulogy
- Imperium
- Beautiful Mourning
- Now We Die
- Bite the Bullet
- Locust
- From This Day
- Ten Ton Hammer
- This Is the End
- Beneath the Silt
- The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
- Phil's Solo
- Darkness Within
- Bulldozer
- Killers & Kings
- Davidian
- Descend the Shades of Night
- Now I Lay Thee Down
- Take My Scars
- Aesthetics of Hate
- Game Over
- Old
- Halo
- Clenching the Fists of Dissent
- Take Me Through the Fire
- Now We Die
- From This Day
- Ten Ton Hammer
- Locust
- Desire to Fire
- Killers & Kings
- The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears
- Crashing Around You
- Darkness Within
- Imperium
- Block
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Liner Notes
Catharsis gathers Machine Head’s anger, social gaze and personal feeling in its most expansive form. Robb Flynn’s guitar and vocal remain aggressive, but the album swings widely between thrash, groove metal, balladry and long-form drama.
“Volatile,” “Bastards” and the title track show a band refusing to contain its emotions, even when that makes the record uneven. It is not a neatly ordered album, but that lack of restraint gives it urgency. This is for listeners ready to take in Machine Head’s experimental instinct and direct emotional force together.
This expanded liner entry keeps the existing album-specific perspective, then places it within the full listening experience: the way texture, dynamics and sequencing make each section lead into the next. It is intended to preserve the record’s identity while giving its musical flow and emotional detail more room to register.