I got into this music in my early to mid 20s. So much aggression, strength and rage I had in me. I'm wondering now if the name of this song had anything to do with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.
I really liked The Blackening quite a bit more but for this being their debut album they were ahead of their time. Next favorite is The More Things Change.
This album saved 90's Metal when Grunge was King. I bought the tape of 'Burn My Eyes' and was blown away. It still sounds as good in 2023 as it ever did and it reminds me of being a teen listening to it on my Walkman.
I always stopped listening after the intro and never listened to the whole song because I wasn't into this type of metal but about a month ago I became a man and did it. AND I REGRET NOTHING I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!
This song will always kick ass! I'm an old guy, and I exactly remember year 1994 when I've heard this song (videoclip in Headbanger's Ball to be honest) for the first time - I was stunned, that was something new and fresh on metal scene...The next day I was in the music store to search for this album, and luckily I found it and bought it. Next year (1995) another great band released their first album: Merauder "Master Killer", but that's a completely different story...
im 36 and ancient now, but i think i was like 14 or 15 when i first heard this album. i was blown away. it was progressive, very heavy, and original. then...machine head kinda lost their way for awhile. i've honestly enjoyed all their albums, but this one was special.
Best gig I went to was London, Hammersmith. Slipknot gig but instead of crappy support acts, they had Machine Head and Children of Bodom, was bloody awesome!
I headbanged so hard my head compressed the air so tight it went past its shwartzschild radius and formed a black hole, effectiveley swallowing my house into the stomach of non existence and died of hawking radiation.
I remember having bought the "Burn my Eyes" CD one year after it was released, back in 1995, and it blew me away from the very beginning. Even though I'm not a musician, I just would like to point out that Machine Head has been capable of settting the standard concerning hard rock, achieving thus the goal of becoming one of the best bands that music genre has ever had.
From Robb Flynn interview: "We started jamming it, and a lot of the time when I write lyrics I just freestyle, I don’t have anything set, I don’t write down stuff first I just see what comes. I make up words and look around like, ‘PAs! Spines! Blood! People!’ whatever comes in my mind. “For some very bizarre reason… the very first chorus of Davidian was ‘Get the fuck up to the bone-breaking groove.’ And I thought that was good! I thought that was good for like three weeks. Then I remember we did a warehouse party - when we started out there wasn’t a lot of clubs in the Bay Area, and we were just playing our punk rock friends’ warehouse - we were playing a parking lot. “I remember getting up, we were getting to Davidian, we’re gonna do this fuckin’ chorus, I said it one time and I was like, ‘Holy shit! This is fucking horrible.’ In that moment, in that warehouse parking lot… this shit’s gotta change, right fuckin’ now, because this sucks. So that night I wrote, ‘Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast.’” "Davidian" is a single and the opening song on US metal band Machine Head's debut album Burn My Eyes released in 1994. It is the 13th track featured on the band's live album Hellalive. Band frontman Robb Flynn claims that _the title of the song_ was influenced by the 1993 Waco raid involving the deaths of over 80 Branch Davidians, including leader David Koresh, but also states _the content_ of the song was _not related to the incident_ , but was "violent poetry."
I loved this song since its release but I only recently dove into the Waco incident. It's quite clear to me now that the powers that be, which include medias, have decided to present everything as black and white as possible. But the more one gets info on it, the more one sees that it's some shades of grey, but certainly not black as in the narrative many people regurgitated. One place to start can be the Brown Political Review's article "The Waco Siege - BPR Interviews: David Thibodeau". It's actually quite a fascinating subject, but also sad and revealing (mostly on the darkness of government power, the darkness in the minds of people with power). Maybe the lyrics could fit to describe the minds of power tripping officials.
Quite the amazing musical talent these guys have. I have been playing drums for 11 years now and have just learned how to play duel kick Bass drum well. These guys make it sound easy as hell though.
I got the Machine Head logo tattooed on my thigh shortly after Burn My Eyes came out. I was kinda wondering if I'd done a mistake after Supercharger. But all's well that ends well, because Machine Head have been shredding riffs and kicking ass all the way afterwards...
I've got my Rock Island 12 gauge, and a bunch of shells, it's the 4th of July, I'm gonna let freedom ring when I'm done blasting this song.....MURICA!!!!!
Best Machine Head's album, one of my all-time favourite albums with Rage Against The Machine's 'RATM' - Deftones' 'Adrenaline' - KoЯn's 'KoЯn' and Fear Factory's "Demanufacture.
If you know what this song is actually about you understand how powerful it is. Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast. Waco was the proof of how our government feels about it’s citizens
@@ethancurry1804 I know that, but ask yourself if you really think the majority of RUclips viewers would be able to make that connection just based on the name?
Saw them with Biohazard & Slayer at the old gone now International Ballroom in Atlanta, GA years ago!! Great show!! Saw them 3 other times later as well in GA & FL!!
+Kalle Koppkaputt : you can't seriously compare both albums. It's just not the same shit. MH's sound was a lot heavier but Pantera had Dimebag's guitar skills. I enjoyed both equally.
The riff @ 3:44 (outro riff) sounds a LOT like early Gojira material, with the heavy palm-muted triplets, and off-kilter rhythm...I betcha them Frenchies LOVE em some Machine Head, lol...
I have grown up with this band..added it to my arsenal at age 17 when it first came out..started out with Black Sabbath back in the day..progressed to old Metallica..went on to find and LOVE Megadeth..then found Pantera..and Sepultura.. and then came MACHINE FUCKN HEAD!!!! love em all.. its my youth all there...and this song feels a lot like me.
Saw machine head tonight in San Diego..... Fucking insane show... Holy fuck I'm so glad I got to see these guys! Been a fan since I heard their first song on first album! That was so long ago I took my kids with me!.... Yeah kids these guys are part of the reason your Dad is so cool!
Anybody else brought here by the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special short film? Just discovered it. Best thing Andrew Bryniarski ever did ( makes his portrayal of Leatherface look sad by comparison ). If DC ever pulls their finger out and makes an authentic Lobo film, hard-R and true to the Main Man, this should be the introduction music. Vicious hard metal!
I'm planning on making a Machine Head Breakdown Tribute of all their songs that has Breakdowns, but I'm not sure which songs have Breakdowns. I know Davidian, Blood for Blood (the part after the second Chorus), Imperium, Slanderous, Wolves (somewhere around the end of the song, before he sings the last Chorus), I Am Hell (Sonata in C#), Locust and Eyes of the Dead. Are there any more Breakdowns from their songs that I didn't listed, or some of the listed songs I mentioned don't even have Breakdowns?
This is, to this day, one of the most powerful metal songs ever recorded.
Hahahaha no
Get a fucking grip kid... this shit is radio music
@@TheBarryWaterman why is it radio shit?
@@TheBarryWaterman I've never even heard this on the radio... Pantera is true radio shit
agree
The guitar tone on this track is delicious.
Pantera, Fear Factory, and Machine Head had some fantastic tone at the time you just don’t hear today.
Pantera? Not for me dude..
@@OM-et4qj I am not a dimebag psycho but his tone was legendary.
@@OM-et4qj Pantera may have been the best of the bunch.
Thank the amp emulator business for that one
Yes. Exactly these three bands. The 90's American groove bands.
6 years ago, 10 years, 2 days ago... This is the stuff that defines metal. Machinehead always kills it.
Best album they ever did.
Damn Straight!! A friend of mine got me into this album and Down Nola at the same time about 20 years back hehe.
I got into this music in my early to mid 20s. So much aggression, strength and rage I had in me. I'm wondering now if the name of this song had anything to do with David Koresh and the Branch Davidians.
I really liked The Blackening quite a bit more but for this being their debut album they were ahead of their time. Next favorite is The More Things Change.
Brian Energy yeah it did. The songs about Waco
The blackning would like a word with this statement
3:42 still hits as hard as it ever did in 1994!
One of the heaviest introductions to a Metal album. Amazing riff. :D
This album saved 90's Metal when Grunge was King. I bought the tape of 'Burn My Eyes' and was blown away. It still sounds as good in 2023 as it ever did and it reminds me of being a teen listening to it on my Walkman.
I agree. But Pantera and Sepultura were there too around this release.
I still remember my reaction to hearing this song for the first time. It was like time stopped for me.
I always stopped listening after the intro and never listened to the whole song because I wasn't into this type of metal but about a month ago I became a man and did it. AND I REGRET NOTHING I FUCKING LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!!!!!!
when i first heard it i was a hawk flying over the concert watching the mosh ring vortex swirl it was a beautiful day
I heard this in motor storm pacificrift
Same to me with Roots Bloody Roots..... Like time has stopped.
this song is impossible to not headbang to until your necks broken
agreed mate
I'm currently teaching my toddler to headbang (safely!) And this is on our list today. Let's see how she goes
RIP me. I'm bout to listen to this song.
True I was headbanging to this earlier and saliva was going everywhere
When people ask me which porn I'm into, I'll just say ear porn a.k.a this. XD
Saw MH live back in October. The pit exploded when this song started. One of the best shows I've ever been to.
Saw machineheads first ever gig in england, supported slayer at brixton academy. one of the best gigs ever
Haven't listened to this track in about 12 years, Jesus Christ forgot how powerfully good it is!
This song will always kick ass! I'm an old guy, and I exactly remember year 1994 when I've heard this song (videoclip in Headbanger's Ball to be honest) for the first time - I was stunned, that was something new and fresh on metal scene...The next day I was in the music store to search for this album, and luckily I found it and bought it. Next year (1995) another great band released their first album: Merauder "Master Killer", but that's a completely different story...
massive respect x
im 36 and ancient now, but i think i was like 14 or 15 when i first heard this album. i was blown away. it was progressive, very heavy, and original. then...machine head kinda lost their way for awhile. i've honestly enjoyed all their albums, but this one was special.
You`re a Headbangers Ball child...nice too see someone`s still around here.
Best gig I went to was London, Hammersmith. Slipknot gig but instead of crappy support acts, they had Machine Head and Children of Bodom, was bloody awesome!
Wait, Machine head was a supporting act for Slipknot? I feel like it should be the other way around.
is it me or does sound like a cross between sepultura and pantera
@Лорд Асдергод dude this aint no metalcore :))) thrash or groove . Metalcore is for pussyes with make up
@@andreimoldovan1633 They call this shit post thrash. That's what groove falls under. Happy listening brother
To me it sounds like Machine Head :)
That is what makes machine head awesome
Pan-tura...\m/
After all this time this still gives me goosebumps!
remember first time watching the video for this on MTV Headbangers Ball back when MTV was music only!!....damn i was sold....fan ever since
I headbanged so hard my head compressed the air so tight it went past its shwartzschild radius and formed a black hole, effectiveley swallowing my house into the stomach of non existence and died of hawking radiation.
Bro that's pretty heavy.
A fellow physics major I see
You could have torsobanged and skipped all this complex physics hazards...
Beautiful.
Got it hahahah
Even after all these years...few modern metal songs give me goosebumps and such an intense sense of adrenaline like this fucking song.
came here with bald, left with dimebag hair
NAH - U STILL BALD
That drum fill at around 1:58 is so sweet. Mad props to Chris Kontos
I was headbanging to this so hard that I smashed my head into my keyboard.
SKULL KRUSHER 😂
now thats how you do it
noice \m/
same here. knocked out for 3 hours blood all over. = good song
or maybe u wanted to!! \m/
I saw this band on tour with Slayer and Biohazard in January 1995, in Seattle, WA.
I remember having bought the "Burn my Eyes" CD one year after it was released, back in 1995, and it blew me away from the very beginning. Even though I'm not a musician, I just would like to point out that Machine Head has been capable of settting the standard concerning hard rock, achieving thus the goal of becoming one of the best bands that music genre has ever had.
LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
From Robb Flynn interview:
"We started jamming it, and a lot of the time when I write lyrics I just freestyle, I don’t have anything set, I don’t write down stuff first I just see what comes. I make up words and look around like, ‘PAs! Spines! Blood! People!’ whatever comes in my mind.
“For some very bizarre reason… the very first chorus of Davidian was ‘Get the fuck up to the bone-breaking groove.’ And I thought that was good! I thought that was good for like three weeks. Then I remember we did a warehouse party - when we started out there wasn’t a lot of clubs in the Bay Area, and we were just playing our punk rock friends’ warehouse - we were playing a parking lot.
“I remember getting up, we were getting to Davidian, we’re gonna do this fuckin’ chorus, I said it one time and I was like, ‘Holy shit! This is fucking horrible.’ In that moment, in that warehouse parking lot… this shit’s gotta change, right fuckin’ now, because this sucks. So that night I wrote, ‘Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast.’”
"Davidian" is a single and the opening song on US metal band Machine Head's debut album Burn My Eyes released in 1994. It is the 13th track featured on the band's live album Hellalive. Band frontman Robb Flynn claims that _the title of the song_ was influenced by the 1993 Waco raid involving the deaths of over 80 Branch Davidians, including leader David Koresh, but also states _the content_ of the song was _not related to the incident_ , but was "violent poetry."
I loved this song since its release but I only recently dove into the Waco incident. It's quite clear to me now that the powers that be, which include medias, have decided to present everything as black and white as possible. But the more one gets info on it, the more one sees that it's some shades of grey, but certainly not black as in the narrative many people regurgitated. One place to start can be the Brown Political Review's article "The Waco Siege - BPR Interviews: David Thibodeau". It's actually quite a fascinating subject, but also sad and revealing (mostly on the darkness of government power, the darkness in the minds of people with power).
Maybe the lyrics could fit to describe the minds of power tripping officials.
LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAAST!
Machine Head is the band we always blasted before patrols
lmao u for real?
soronefabrik1 hell yeah. we used to get ready to shoot shit to this whole album
FLA-AllDay lol!
murica lol
Extrbeit
20 years on, still awesome, remember this live at Donnington 95, god i feel old now!
Commenting before reading description #badass
I used to listen to this in preparation for a math exam in college back in 1990's. I always get perfect score.
This is the album that changed my life.
R.I.P mother fuckers
Got kicked out of school over this song.
Quite the amazing musical talent these guys have. I have been playing drums for 11 years now and have just learned how to play duel kick Bass drum well. These guys make it sound easy as hell though.
+David Losey Meshuggah - Bleed
And anything Gene Hoglan plays on.
saw them with Slayer back in the day
Best Breakdown ever !
One of the best machine head tracks ever
Great description mate, tnx for uploading this video, amazing song!
Love this one!! the whole track just kicks ass!! And the outro is just insane awesome!!
Scaaaared!
I got the Machine Head logo tattooed on my thigh shortly after Burn My Eyes came out. I was kinda wondering if I'd done a mistake after Supercharger. But all's well that ends well, because Machine Head have been shredding riffs and kicking ass all the way afterwards...
I CAN'T TELL IF I'M GOING DEAF, OR IF THE VOLUME DOESN'T GO LOUD ENOUGH!
this song changed my life x
I've got my Rock Island 12 gauge, and a bunch of shells, it's the 4th of July, I'm gonna let freedom ring when I'm done blasting this song.....MURICA!!!!!
where are the lyrics? !! huh
Why don't you just listen
I love this tune so much
3:43 its like other song start.
Best Machine Head's album, one of my all-time favourite albums with Rage Against The Machine's 'RATM' - Deftones' 'Adrenaline' - KoЯn's 'KoЯn' and Fear Factory's "Demanufacture.
adrenaline has some classics. Engine No 9. 7 words. etc.
Sameeeeeee
@@pauldbills27 listen to birthmark by them
Did we just become best friends lol
... and Pantera, right?
this song brings back so many memories. I love machine head!
LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!
best outro i´ve ever heard!!
I remember my brother buying this CD off columbia house. We had it cranked at 10 and 11 years old!
It's smart to put the lyrics in the description anyway. This is a good song to work out to though 🤘🤘🤘
Besides all praises....this is incredibly well mixed and produced
Bro that guitar is metal as hell
I don’t always let freedom ring but when I do it’s with a shotgun blast.
Stay metal my friends \m/
I let the freedom ring with a shotgun blast as the 100th like XD
One of the best albums ever produced :-)
If you know what this song is actually about you understand how powerful it is. Let freedom ring with a shotgun blast. Waco was the proof of how our government feels about it’s citizens
Hence why it's called Davidian
@@ethancurry1804 I know that, but ask yourself if you really think the majority of RUclips viewers would be able to make that connection just based on the name?
@@threethirty3323 nah I doubt it haha. But freedom loving Texans remember
@@ethancurry1804 every American should be taught the truth about Waco
Saw them with Biohazard & Slayer at the old gone now International Ballroom in Atlanta, GA years ago!! Great show!! Saw them 3 other times later as well in GA & FL!!
should have a billion views and like \m/
Whenever the outro hits you better stay away from me!
I think that someone already said it, but I'ma repeat it if so: from 3:43 onward, I hear a pioneer breakdown situation.
+Epikus Composer pioneers breakdown: cro mags, leeway "rise and fall"
+Dari o I'll look them up. :)
That last riff... CRUSHING.
The album got me, into machine fucking head then saw at Donington park great fucking band
MACHINE HEAAAAAAD RESPECT FROM GREECE 🤘🤘🤘2019
this album kicked ass 1994 ..pantera´s far beyond driven was ..far beyond this album ...great times
+Kalle Koppkaputt : you can't seriously compare both albums. It's just not the same shit. MH's sound was a lot heavier but Pantera had Dimebag's guitar skills. I enjoyed both equally.
that harmonics
Fits my mood - and btw its a master piece
Rest In Power Eric...Thank You All The Tremendous Music And Some I'm just
Recently Discovered Which Is Truly A Gift...
this version has better sound than the video
Man I remember blasting this song back in the 90's in a 1987 BMW with 2 12inch JL's pissin off all the neighbors! Good times
Classic metal n my fav of theirs to this very day
The riff @ 3:44 (outro riff) sounds a LOT like early Gojira material, with the heavy palm-muted triplets, and off-kilter rhythm...I betcha them Frenchies LOVE em some Machine Head, lol...
The outro riff is my favorite part
I believe if Pantera and White Zombie had a child, it would be this sick tune. It's awesome 👌
This song nicely follows Glenn Miller's Moonlight Serenade.
I have grown up with this band..added it to my arsenal at age 17 when it first came out..started out with Black Sabbath back in the day..progressed to old Metallica..went on to find and LOVE Megadeth..then found Pantera..and Sepultura.. and then came MACHINE FUCKN HEAD!!!! love em all.. its my youth all there...and this song feels a lot like me.
The grooves man!!! :-)
I discover this song yesterday in the bar. Pretty awesome!
Those 111 dislikes are by people headbanging really hard and accidently hitting the dislike button
No, those dislikes are from Evanesance fans.
No,just stupid people
🤣❤❤❤Both these comments hella made me bust up!!!😁😉..Peace Y'All, I'm out on my fave effen song😊...
This song still goes hard from motorstorm
I heard this song first on that game
@@speedking7224same thats the reason im here
I wish i could hear this for the first time again....
When your jaw drops in awe and then is replaced with a smile after: LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!!!! 😀🇺🇸
What a masterpiece of metal. 💯
I wonder if this song was inspired by the Waco Siege.
It was
Yes - it is - the Branch Davidian...
I thought it was about those who were MURDERED by the BATF under the Clinton reign of TERROR!
This song brings back good memories LET FREEDOM RING WITH A SHOTGUN BLAST!!!!!
MH's flagship song and best of all time.
EXTREMELY brutal outro-pioneer breakdown situation at 3:43.
Oakland California baby!
Thanks for making me break me keyboard with my head
Saw them live in Nottingham on May 21st. Best believe I was dead centre while this beast was playing!
Scarred..pouring the salt on the wound!!
This will be ever great!
Sick song. :)
Saw machine head tonight in San Diego..... Fucking insane show... Holy fuck I'm so glad I got to see these guys! Been a fan since I heard their first song on first album! That was so long ago I took my kids with me!.... Yeah kids these guys are part of the reason your Dad is so cool!
Real metal heads know the lyrics to this song.
I saw easy money, a Beatdown band from Arizona, covering this, and there was so much violence. riffs for days
I love the fact the lyrics don’t cloud up the screen. Keep up the good work.
That last min & 12 seconds, holy shit the mother of all breakdowns!
So brutal... Love it
If I directed a movie about the Waco siege, when all hell breaks loose during the first ATF raid this track should kick in :P
Their BEST SONG plain n simple!!! MH in its PUREST RAWEST FORM
Anybody else brought here by the Lobo Paramilitary Christmas Special short film? Just discovered it. Best thing Andrew Bryniarski ever did ( makes his portrayal of Leatherface look sad by comparison ). If DC ever pulls their finger out and makes an authentic Lobo film, hard-R and true to the Main Man, this should be the introduction music. Vicious hard metal!
Clayton George literally me too just now
Why Corey Taylor on the album art? :D
I'm planning on making a Machine Head Breakdown Tribute of all their songs that has Breakdowns, but I'm not sure which songs have Breakdowns. I know Davidian, Blood for Blood (the part after the second Chorus), Imperium, Slanderous, Wolves (somewhere around the end of the song, before he sings the last Chorus), I Am Hell (Sonata in C#), Locust and Eyes of the Dead. Are there any more Breakdowns from their songs that I didn't listed, or some of the listed songs I mentioned don't even have Breakdowns?
There is also “A Thousand Lies” off the same album.