Supercharger

Supercharger is a work on which MACHINE HEAD sounded their low-centered groove with more modern rhythm and sonic pressure. Robb Flynn’s voice moves between roars and melody, continually keeping the songs’ tension. It is a record that pushed the modern sound approached on the previous album further. On “Bulldozer,” “Crashing Around You” and “Kick You When You're Down,” while repeating heavy riffs, each song changes expression by the placement of the beat. Songs like “White-Knuckle Blackout!” and “American High” breathe the band’s full playing too. Even within a style that foregrounds momentum, an awareness of the band’s dynamics remains. Released at the unlucky time just after the September 11 attacks and thus hard to evaluate fairly, it is nonetheless a record that carved an era for the band.