Classic Growls and Crystal Cleans! Machine Head "No Gods, No Masters" Reaction by Metal Vocal Coach

I am SO Glad that Machine head is still writing excellent music! While this is a stray from our usual fare, it was great hearing solid fundamental screaming technique from a band that has been around since the 90s. A solid balance of harsh and clean vocals make this song a solid choice for vocal discussion. Lets hang out and talk about Machine Head!
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[@KardavoxAcademy]

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[@erixouther]

The Blackening was monumental in my vocal development. Still a 10/10 record all these years later

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I must admit I am very rusty on my Machine Head, I'll have to check it out. I'm glad to hear it made a difference though!

[@LakeVermilionDreams]

@@KardavoxAcademy second this! Such a great modern thrash album. Check it out even if you don't cover it. Clenching the Fist of Dissent always energizes me to fight injustice!

[@kylefullenlove3809]

Please check out there song I Am Hell (Sonata in C#) classic sound and a groovy 2min outro

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'll check it out!

[@steven_steve_steve2308]

If you would want to react to another new track by Machine Head, I would recommend the song "Slaughter the Martyr". Its an absolute banger of a song

[@zombee8424]

You can use 'K' to pause KZbin videos but also 'J' and 'L' to go backwards and forwards 10 seconds. Arrow keys do 5 seconds. Just a thing that I dont think people know too often and may be helpful. Keep up the great videos!

[@korg47237]

Vim users at KZbin totally added that

[@SpaghettiWithMeatSauce]

You can also use "," and "." to go back or forwards frame-by-frame.

[@MechanicalPeanut]

Friggin loved Machine Head. Damn that was like 20 years ago. I'm old.

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I know how that feels!

[@James-lr3xg]

loving your looks into the older voices in metal. Defintly enjoying seeing the bigger picture of the evolution of metal vocals.

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Hell yeah!

[@MechanicalPeanut]

Different from what I remember too Mark. You're not alone. 1999s The Blood, the Sweat, the Tears was one of my favorite albums back in late 90s. There was more grit.

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'm glad I'm not alone!

[@themandoesloreagain6148]

This is the way!

[@Maggai]

Yes! Awesome to see Machine Head here! This is maybe one of the more straight forward songs from the new album, which is awesome btw. Robb Flynn was a huge part of influencing the vocalists of the numetal, metal core and death core scenes! Huge influence on me too. I them live on Friday, and they were amazing! Nailed the vocals live. Also sick moshpit!

[@KardavoxAcademy]

That sounds dope, thanks for watching!

[@illchurchhorror1343]

Machinehead is amazing

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Hell yeah!

[@MechanicalPeanut]

Ooh, bring back Biohazard!

[@MeshuggahMan]

I just stumbled on this channel after spotify recommended your latest kardashev album (probably my favorite of the year FYI) and this is amazing stuff. I'll admit that I am fairly ignorant to how vocals work much less metal vocals but I find all of this incredibly interesting how you're supposed to do it. Keep up the great work!

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Yo Brian, thanks for the kind words about Kardashev - I'm glad it worked for you! And thanks for checking out the channel - be sure to stick around for more!

[@cullenkenneth5980]

YT sub counter says 120 000 on the dot! Congrats Mark! Keep it up, love ya man 💪🏻

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Thanks bro!

[@UrethralCarnage]

Great vid! I was wondering if we could get some aborted on this channel? Svencho has some amazing vocals. Would be fun to hear you break down his techniques.

[@gee3161]

Great job on the vid, I agree with you - definitely a different sound to what I recall from Machine Head, still great

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Definitely!

[@jameshackney4649]

Hey Mark I love your channel. I'm so glad I found it not to long ago. Your content has given me a much greater appreciation for vocals and help me fall in love with deathcore. I'd love to see you do a video on Taylor Barber's cover of "hostage" he does a scream in it I've never heard before and would love to hear your take on it. If not a video at least check it out yourself I think you'd find it very interesting. Keep up the fantastic work and spreading the knowledge

[@KardavoxAcademy]

Thanks for the kind words, that's awesome to hear! I'll check it out!

[@jameshackney4649]

Thank you for the reply and getting me much more interested into vocals. I really hope you like the cover.

[@Screwston-ci7fc]

A song that is more singy is unhallowed or slaughter the martyr from them

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'll check it out!

[@ronaldschenderlein2135]

Hey Mark, enjoy the channel even though I am no singer. Just like your analysis of the music. You should check out Deafheaven - Incheon Pentaport Rock Festival 2020, right up your alley and great camera work of the vocals. These songs are a live take of two songs, Black Brick and Dream House...

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'll check it out!

[@Jishere232]

No Gods, No Masters, only man... My name is Andrew Ryan...

[@MetalNeverDieswithMarkA]

Be above the pencil. Cool that you did something rather than Deathcore for a change.

[@UweSandrisser]

This song is much softer than the MFH I know from decades before, but also much softer than other songs of the recent album. But....I saw and heard them a week ago in Vienna. And they are still Loud and HEAVY as f#&k! Btw ...

[@UweSandrisser]

Arch Enemy have a song called "No God's, no Master's" on their 2011 "Khaos Legions" album.

[@kleigh4418]

please do Termina Take Flight!

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'll check it out!

[@another7704]

So is that vocal/false chord what Glen Danzig has always done?

[@wndaa]

for some reason i read "No gods, no hamsters"

[@KardavoxAcademy]

That could work!

[@th3voice]

Greeetings from Norway! Gratuitous umlauts and ø replacing o is... so silly to me. Those letters have pronunciations... NØ GØDS NØ MASTERS sounds... utterly stupid when said out loud. Mötörhead have nothing on this :P I have an Ø in my name... these things aren't just decorations yo! Just because your alphabet has several letters missing doesn't mean you don't look like some kind of weirdos when you use these :P Now to watch the video, which I expect I will think is awesome and enjoy immensely :)

[@disequalone]

Rick Sanchez is in da house

[@unholyseed]

hey legend!! You gotta do a reaction to sacramentum ov filicide by nitheful. The vocals in it are like none I've heard before and I'd love to hear your thoughts on it🤘

[@KardavoxAcademy]

I'll check them out!

[@pieflies]

You remember correctly. Machine Head did used to be different. They started out with a thrashier, heavier style of metal in their first couple of albums. Then a couple of nu-metal style albums. Then 4 more that were a more along the lines of the first 2 albums, but with a bit more polish. The quality of these trailed off a bit on the last couple IMO, leading up to the mess that is 2018’s Catharsis. That’s a break away for their usual style, into… a whole bunch of different weird styles squashed into a single incoherent album (in a bad way). Maybe be happy you haven’t heard that, although it is amusing to listen to it a little and wonder what they were thinking when they made it. This album seems to continue on the trajectory the 4 lambing before Catharsis we’re taking (a slightly downward trajectory unfortunately - for my tastes) Burn My Eyes, The More Things Change and The Blackening are how I like to remember Machine Head, although there are some great songs scattered through their other albums and I did listen to their nu-metal albums a lot when I was younger.

[@patfix]

On the new album I liked 'Choke on the Ashes of your Hate' much more than this one, this one is more melodic for sure. But Robb doesn't have much variation in his vocal technique anyway.

[@KardavoxAcademy]

That's fair, I'll have to check that one out!

[@patfix]

Didn’t mean that as a negative by the way, the just had his style and does it well.

[@Adum1602]

Wings of redemption anyone?

[@aWildNelby]

“Smug” seems to be a good way to describe these kind of vocals. I call them “tough guy” vocals 😅 I’m not a big fan of them as they’ve always given me the impression of fake emotion and fake tough guy vibes. It feels like he’s holding back a lot. IDK how else to describe it 😅 Just my opinion.