BURN MY EYES

'''Burn My Eyes''' is the debut album by Oakland thrash metal band Machine Head. Its themes lie in the social disorder that the band grew up in, reflected in Robb Flynn's lyrics. The album is considered by magazines like Metal Hammer (UK) to be one of the seminal metal albums released in the 1990s and one of the more significant metal releases overall.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Versions

Miscellanea

Re-Release

Track listing

# "Davidian" – 4:55
# "Old" – 4:05
# "A Thousand Lies" – 6:13
# "None But My Own" – 6:14
# "The Rage to Overcome" – 4:46
# "Death Church" – 6:32
# "A Nation on Fire" – 5:33
# "Blood for Blood" – 3:40
# "I'm Your God Now" – 5:50
# "Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies" – 2:45
# "Block" – 4:59
# "Alan's on Fire" (Poison Idea cover) - 4:00
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Music by Machine Head, lyrics by Robb Flynn.
Produced by Colin Richardson.
[
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Personnel

★ Robb Flynn - Vocals, Guitar

★ Logan Mader - Lead Guitar

★ Adam Duce - Bass Guitar

★ Chris Kontos - Drums

Versions

Limited Edition Digipak contains bonus cover track of Poison Idea's "Alan's On Fire" – 4:00
Special Edition black Jewel case with Machine Head logo.
Australian Tour Edition also released with a bonus cd containing demos:
# "Death Church" – 6:18
# "Old" – 4:23
# "The Rage to Overcome" – 5:04
# "A Nation on Fire" – 4:46
# "Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies / Fuck It All" – 6:54

Miscellanea

Drummer Chris Kontos left shortly after the release of the album, and was replaced by Dave McClain who remains with the band to this day.
The song 'Blood for Blood' contains a guitar riff similar to the one used by Slayer in the song 'Spirit in Black' from their 'Seasons in the Abyss' album.
It became Roadrunner Records best seller very quickly and is widely considered to be the best debut on that label. The album was the label's best-selling debut album for a number of years, exceeded by Slipknot's 1999 self-titled debut

Re-Release

On October 31st 2006, Roadrunner Records announced that as part of their 25th Anniversary, they will be re-releasing Burn My Eyes with a bonus CD, which includes previously unreleased tracks and rarities. It was said to be due out on January the 8th, 2007 but has been pushed back to September 2007 so it does not interfere with the release of 'The Blackening'. However, since this announcement, the re-release has infact been cancelled. Robb Flynn reported this on his blog, which is posted on Machinehead1.com
"To the best of our knowledge, the BME re-release that was supposed to have coincided with the 25th anniversary of Roadrunner Records back in 2005 and was then re-scheduled to be released in Oct 2006, has been back-burnered. And as far as we're concerned, that's a good thing. This is the year of The Blackening, and the time frame to re-release it has passed, not to mention that the idea of re-releasing a 13-year old album that we already celebrated with 2 anniversary shows (3 years ago) makes zero sense to us. We were never excited about re-issuing it to begin with, as it was just gonna have a bunch of b-sides, and wouldn't have been nearly as cool some of the other re-issues that had DVDs and all sorts of cool shit... so, as much as some of you may be bummed, know that it's better this way."