Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Full Metal Jackie, Machine Head’s Robb Flynn discussed his years-long collaboration with Jordan Fish (ex-Bring Me The Horizon). The frontman described the musician/producer as “a genius.”

Flynn said the following:

“I really feel like we’ve got a record that’s got a lot of layers. I’m really stoked because I have about four collaborators that I work with and they kind of handle all like the keyboards and the piano stuff that I can hear and I play on guitar and I just say, ‘Hey, turn this into this sound or whatever.’

I’m fortunate enough to work with Jordan [Fish] from Bring Me the Horizon. He’s been a decade long collaborator of mine. I started working with him on the ‘Bloodstone and Diamonds‘ record. And on this record I said, ‘Hey, I really want you to be part of every song and even if you don’t end up on any of the songs, I just want you to be able to collaborate with me and try some stuff and see where it goes.’

And it turned out really, really cool having him be a part of it because he really just brought this depth and this dimension that I don’t think we’ve had before in a couple songs. But to hear it all throughout an album just really ties the album together more so. Yeah, I’m very stoked.”

He also added:

“I’ve worked with him for 10 years now, so it doesn’t feel like a new collaboration. It might sound like a new collaboration to people, but we’re four albums deep with him. I just feel like he’s part of the team at this point.

He’s kind of a genius. He just brings in this killer [mentality]. Sometimes that guy, I’d be like, ‘Hey, do your ideas and put it on,’ and he’d send me like 70 tracks of stuff.”

“Then me and my producer Zack [Ohren] would just go through everything and determine what is what. Sometimes it was just like a hi hat or something or just like a shaker or whatever, but then other times it’s a layers of strings and layers of piano and layers of sub stuff and cool textures.

We didn’t use it for every song. It wasn’t needed for every song. But to me a thrash song doesn’t need stuff like that. It just needs thrash and guitars really loud. Let’s turn those guitars up. But for other moments, it really just brought to life the song.”

[via Loudwire]