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After years of feeling a little slighted by Metallica, San Francisco’s second most popular thrash group, Machine Head, were fully vindicated when the world’s biggest metal band asked them open their lengthy Death Magnetic tour. It was, perhaps, the high point of the upward arc that’s accompanied Machine Head’s 2007 album The Blackening. Since they began touring for the disc, they’ve performed powerful headline shows, raised eyebrows at outdoor festivals, played direct support to Slipknot in Europe and partied their asses off wherever they went. But while Machine Head have made lots of new fans and friends, and experienced plenty of love onstage, behind the scenes the band has been on the edge of collapse. Click more to hear our podcast with frontman Robb Flynn, who explains what went wrong and what they’re doing to fix the Machine.

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