Supercharger (album)

Supercharger
Studio album by Machine Head
Released October 2, 2001
Recorded Indigo Ranch Studios
Genre Groove metal, nu metal
Length 56:30
74:05 (Digipak)
Label Roadrunner
Producer Johnny K
Machine Head chronology
The Burning Red
(1999)		 Supercharger
(2001)		 Hellalive
(2003)
Singles from Supercharger
  1. "Crashing Around You"
    Released: 2001
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic [1]
Blabbermouth.net [2]

Supercharger is the fourth album by heavy metal band, Machine Head. The album still retains the rap vocals present on the previous album. The video for the single "Crashing Around You" had footage of the San Francisco skyline set on fire.

Contents

Release

Supercharger was released at the start of October, 2001, just weeks after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. The lead single, "Crashing Around You", was pulled from MTV and rock radio despite being the "most added" track in the United States. The pull was a result of the metaphorical "crashing" lyric in the song and the burning San Francisco skyline in the video. Machine Head's support tour for the album was done without help from their label, Roadrunner Records, and after the release of Hellalive to fulfill their contract led to the band's two year hiatus from the label's American branch.

Despite being a heavier album than The Burning Red, fans of the band are often divided over the legacy of this album. With The Burning Red, the band had changed their sound to correspond with the coming nu metal trend. Supercharger was darker and heavier than The Burning Red, but lacked the groove metal sound of Burn My Eyes and The More Things Change.... Two years later, the band would release Through the Ashes of Empires and return to the groove metal roots.

Track listing

No. Title Length
1. "Declaration"   1:11
2. "Bulldozer"   4:35
3. "White-Knuckle Blackout!"   3:14
4. "Crashing Around You"   3:13
5. "Kick You When You're Down"   4:01
6. "Only the Names"   6:07
7. "All in Your Head"   4:05
8. "American High"   3:48
9. "Brown Acid"   0:59
10. "Nausea"   4:23
11. "Blank Generation"   6:38
12. "Trephination"   4:58
13. "Deafening Silence"   5:33
14. "Supercharger"   3:48
Total length:
 56:30

Personnel

Chart positions

Chart (2001) Peak
position
Australian Albums Chart[3] 24
Austrian Albums Chart[4] 33
Belgian Albums Chart (Flanders)[5] 46
Dutch Albums Chart[6] 88
Finnish Albums Chart[7] 25
French Albums Chart[8] 35
German Albums Chart[9] 25
Swedish Albums Chart[10] 42
Swiss Albums Chart[11] 82
UK Album Chart[12] 34
The Billboard 200[13] 115

References

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  2. ^ "Machine Head Supercharger CD Review". Blabbermouth.net. http://www.blabbermouth.net/machineheadcd.htm. 
  3. ^ "Machine Head - Supercharger". australian-charts.com. http://australian-charts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Machine+Head&titel=Supercharger&cat=a. 
  4. ^ "Machine Head - Supercharger". austriancharts.at. http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Machine+Head&titel=Supercharger&cat=a. 
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  8. ^ "Machine Head - Supercharger". lescharts.com. http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Machine+Head&titel=Supercharger&cat=a. 
  9. ^ "Chartverfolgung / Machine Head / Longplay" (in German). Musicline.de. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Machine+Head/longplay. 
  10. ^ "Machine Head - Supercharger". swedishcharts.com. http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Machine+Head&titel=Supercharger&cat=a. 
  11. ^ "Machine Head - Supercharger". hitparade.ch. http:///hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Machine+Head&titel=Supercharger&cat=a. 
  12. ^ Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: M – My Vitriol". Zobbel. http://www.zobbel.de/cluk/CLUK_M.HTM. 
  13. ^ "Supercharger - Machine Head". Billboard. http://www.billboard.com/#/album/machine-head/supercharger/498110. 
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