Track Listing

1. Imperium
2. Bite the Bullet
3. Left Unfinished
4. Elegy
5. In the Presence of My Enemies
6. Days Turn Blue to Gray
7. Vim
8. Seasons Wither
9. All Falls Down
10. Wipe the Tears
11. Descend the Shades of Night

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30773 in Music
• Released on: 2003-12-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Explicit Lyrics, Extra tracks

Album Description
Not only is Through The Ashes Of Empires huge sonically, but the music possesses a fierceness and power that rivals those seminal early albums. By all measures, the results are ferocious. And once again, leave it to the pen of Robert Flynn to scrawl some of the most emotionally intense lyrics in all of metal. While songs like "In The Presence Of My Enemies" and "Imperium" relay all the anger we've come to expect from Machine Head, "Left Unfinished" finds Flynn at his most personal and exposed, as he comes to terms with his deepest unresolved issues about his adoption as a child, and the feelings of abandonment that emerged from that. For this band, a new empire is rising.

METAL HAMMER (UK)
Best album from Machine Head since 'Burn My Eyes'? Definitely! The best album of their career? This is inspirational metal.

Kerrang! (AU)
'Imperium', says it all. Six minutes of bludgeoning riffs, including a burst of breakneck Swedish death metal halfway through.

Customer Reviews

More tasty treats from MH.
Yummy!
Delicious!!
Another feast of metal might.
More epic than the last one. And that one was great too.
Start to finish, a classic.
A must have for those of us with a musical dark side.

Bitchin'
This is an amazing album, i live in the UK and i got a copy shipped all the way from the US because the UK version doesn't have "seasons wither" on it. It was definetly worth the 3 week wait just for that song! The songs are all insanely heavy and the melodies provide a really nice contrast. One of their best ever albums.

3 1/2, Above Average, Some if it still leaves a bad taste
"Through the Ashes of Empires", is Machine Heads fifth studio album, and after a the dismal reviews of "Supercharger" from both fans and reviewers, maybe the band finally heard some of the negitive, and decided to get back on track to just playing straight up Metal. Now, I always thought that Machine Head was a Nu Metal band, but with their own signiture sound, because when I use the term Nu Metal, and use it to describe pretty much alternitive or industrial Metal. Some use the term as to label any Heavy Metal that is popular or radio friendly, but i just simplety call that generic or recycled nu metal. I explain this so Machine Heads dont get offended that I used the term to describe them even on the first two albums (which I know are fan favorites, including myself) So on the the review of "Through the Ashes of Empires" Does the band finally get back on track here? Well yes and no. Its stronger song wise then "Burning Red" and obviously anything is better then "Supercharger", but it still has some annoying poppy/generic nu metal riffs and vocal that I cant stand, and wish the band would just abandon. Maybe I am being to critical, as some reviewers call this a return to form. YES, I agree to a point, its nice to have the band getting back on track, but they still have some work to do. Reviewers tend to get mad when others write such things as "this isnt "Burn my eyes" or "the more things change, so get over it" I myself understand that, and no album by the band might ever match those, but I want to see an effort to get back to that time period, build on it, and abandon the whole pop/generic/nu/new/crapola sound (: They might not release another masterpiece, but at least try. Still, this isnt a bad album, and even with some faults its the best thing they did since "The More Things Change" Out of eleven tracks, I love six of them. Thats not to bad. Some of the others are OK, worth a listen or two, and two of them really suck, I just hit skip. I good effort here, above average Machine Head album, but there is still some work to do. ENJOY