IT’S A GOOD THING
Machine Head founder Robb Flynn has the gift of the gab. When Guitar World catches the Bay Area metal veteran over Zoom, he’s sitting in his home studio, seven hours deep into a hefty day of promo surrounding his band’s 10th full-length, Of Kingdom and Crown. As it stands, he’s supremely amped to get into the details of the album — which further expands Machine Head’s propensity for ground-fracking grooves, harmoni-caccented madness and darkly melodic hooks — but he also admits up front that he’s more than ready to shift the focus off of himself, at least for a bit. You see, on top of playing with Machine Head, Flynn hosts a podcast called No F’n Regrets, with which he gets into longform, career-arcing, occasionally gut-busting conversations with friends like Meshuggah’s Mårten Hagström and Biohazard’s Billy Graziadei. In this particular case, he’s readying himself to speak with Oceano vocalist Adam Warren once our time is up.
Since founding Machine Head in 1991, Flynn has commanded crowds with a rich and oaky baritone speaking voice, which nevertheless rises toward an aggressively vein-popping, in-song bellow. It was Hatebreed vocalist and podcaster Jamey Jasta who egged him on to start No F’n Regrets, suggesting Flynn’s low-end register would be ASMR-style ear candy for listeners. More than 130 episodes later, though, Flynn’s realized that self-restraint leads to increasingly stellar episodes.
This story is from the November 2022 edition of Guitar World.
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