Bay Area metal titans MACHINE HEAD, have announced the details of their forthcoming tenth album, the immense and unapologetic, “Of Kingdom And Crown”, coming August 26th via Nuclear Blast x Imperium Recordings. The debut of the first video from the album, the ferocious “Choke On The Ashes Of Your Hate” can be viewed below. “Of Kingdom And Crown” is a 13 track concept album set in a decimated futuristic wasteland where the sky is stained crimson red. The crux of the story is based on 2 main characters.

MACHINE HEAD founder Robb Flynn comments: “Thanks to my two teenage boys my family has become obsessed with this awesome Japanese anime series called Attack On Titan. The album’s concept was loosely inspired by the series in the sense that in the storyline, there is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ guy, both characters believe they’re doing the right thing as it applies to their being, but make no mistake, both are committing acts of pure atrocity and evil. The opening track, ‘Slaughter The Martyr’, is basically our character #1’s origin story.”

Tracklist:

01. Slaughter The Martyr
02. Choke On The Ashes Of Your Hate
03. Become The Firestorm
04. Overdose
05. My Hands Are Empty
06. Unhallowed
07. Assimilate
08. Kill Thy Enemies
09. No Gods, No Masters
10. Bloodshot
11. Rotten
12. Terminus
13. Arrows In Words From The Sky

Digipak CD bonus tracks:

14. Exteroception *
15. Arrows In Words From The Sky (acoustic)*