MACHINE HEAD's Robb Flynn admits "From This Day" music video was "corny as f**k" | Revolver

MACHINE HEAD's Robb Flynn admits "From This Day" music video was "corny as f**k"

But he defends nu-metal swerve of 'The Burning Red'

Released in 1999 at the height of the nu-metal movement, Machine Head's The Burning Red alienated some old-school fans, who thought the band had jumped onto the trendy bandwagon and forsaken their aggro groove-metal roots with songs like the hip-hop-inflected single "From This Day" and the seemingly out-of-character cover of the Police's "Message in a Bottle."

In a new interview with Metal Hammer, Machine Head main man Robb Flynn addressed the issue, pushing back against the very idea that The Burning Red was widely disliked. "The Burning Red didn't sell half a million copies because people hated it!" he said. "There were a lot of motherfuckers lying about not getting that record."

Flynn also took on the contention that the hip-hop elements on the album represented a jump onto the nu-metal bandwagon. Those elements were always there in the band, he argues. "I was throwing Method Man raps into 'A Thousand Lies' on the Burn My Eyes tour," he noted. "We were covering 'Colors' by Ice-T, but suddenly people were saying we 'got into hip-hop' on The Burning Red. The 'Davidian' video is a rap video, we're walking down the streets with pitbulls, for Christ's sake!"

"I never understood that criticism. I think those The Burning Red songs stood the test of time," he concluded.

That said, Flynn did admit one major error during the promotion of the album: the infamous "From This Day" music video, which found the band rocking some cringey nu-goth looks and striking some equally cringey try-too-hard hip-hop poses. "Our mistake was making that video," Flynn conceded. "It was corny as fuck!"