Machine is the second studio album from the American industrial metal band Static-X, released on May 22, 2001 on the Warner Bros label and recorded at Studio 508 (Los Angeles, California).
It is the album in which Tripp Eisen contributed guitars. When compared to the band's other albums, Machine features a lot more electronics and industrial effects, and much more screamed vocals from Wayne Static (as opposed to the use of clean vocals sprinkled around other albums, and "Cold" had the use of clean vocals).
Machine in some ways can be viewed as the bands darkest album; songs like "Permanence", "Cold" and the title track "Machine" have a darker more intense feel to them than any on the previous album Wisconsin Death Trip.
The song "Black and White" provided the album's first single and music video, and later a second single would be found in "This Is Not". The song "Cold" also had a video made for it, and tied in with the film Queen of the Damned. It was featured on the aforementioned film's soundtrack album, as was the exclusive "Not Meant for Me", performed by Wayne Static. The song "Anything but This", a bonus track from the Japanese version, is also found on the Resident Evil soundtrack.Machine is the second studio album from the American industrial metal band Static-X, released on May 22, 2001 on the Warner Bros label and recorded at Studio 508 (Los Angeles, California).
It is the album in which Tripp Eisen contributed guitars. When compared to the band's other albums, Machine features a lot more electronics and industrial effects, and much more screamed vocals from Wayne Static (as opposed to the use of clean vocals sprinkled around other albums, and "Cold" had the use of clean vocals).
Machine in some ways can be viewed as the bands darkest album; songs like "Permanence", "Cold" and the title track "Machine" have a darker more intense feel to them than any on the previous album Wisconsin Death Trip.
The song "Black and White" provided the album's first single and music video, and later a second single would be found in "This Is Not". The song "Cold" also had a video made for it, and tied in with the film Queen of the Damned. It was featured on the aforementioned film's soundtrack album, as was the exclusive "Not Meant for Me", performed by Wayne Static. The song "Anything but This", a bonus track from the Japanese version, is also found on the Resident Evil soundtrack.false2022-12-04 23:27:52Machine8.720222022-02-172022-02-1753Alternative MetalHeavy MetalIndustrial MetalMetalNu MetalPost-GrungeRock11419821294575780daec-357e-4405-a6db-c14188d413a08ac9e35c-e92d-4030-99ef-ba4127b1555c0475b73b-bdb6-34c0-b8b1-667ad85ae35b/media/data/media4/Music/Static-X/Machine (2001)/folder.jpgStatic‐XAlbumArtistStatic‐XArtistStatic‐XStatic‐XStatic-X is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1994. The line-up has fluctuated over the years, but was long-held constant with band founder, frontman, vocalist and rhythm guitarist Wayne Static until his death in 2014.
The band was founded by Static and original drummer Ken Jay. They rose to fame with their 1999 debut album Wisconsin Death Trip where their heavy industrial metal sound attracted attention within the burgeoning nu metal movement of the late 1990s, with the album eventually going platinum in the United States. The band released five more albums over the course of the next decade: Machine in 2001, Shadow Zone in 2003, Start a War in 2005, Cannibal in 2007, and Cult of Static in 2009. The band's first six albums had sold over three million copies worldwide by 2011.The band entered a hiatus while Static worked on his solo album, Pighammer, in 2011. Static briefly reformed Static-X in 2012, using only members of his solo album's touring band, before officially breaking up in June 2013. On November 1, 2014, Wayne Static died at the age of 48.
The rest of the original Static-X lineup – bassist Tony Campos, lead guitarist Koichi Fukuda and drummer Ken Jay – announced on October 23, 2018, that they were reforming the band in Static's honor, and would release Project: Regeneration Vol. 1, their first studio album in eleven years, in 2020. A follow-up album, Project: Regeneration Vol. 2, is scheduled for release on November 3, 2023.