“Halo” by Machine Head

"Halo" is carved out of The Blackening, Machine Head's sixth studio album, a 2007 Roadrunner release, and it's a four-man effort right down to the songwriting credit, which Robb Flynn shares with Phil Demmel, Adam Duce and Dave McClain. Flynn, listed as Robert in the credits, wrote the words, sings lead, trades electric guitar with Demmel and produced it himself; Duce plays bass and adds backing vocals, McClain drives the drums, Mark Keaton engineered and Colin Richardson mixed.

It lives on the same heavy metal record as "Aesthetics of Hate", the Grammy-nominated first single Flynn fired back at a writer who had cheered the killing of Dimebag Darrell, under a cover whose mirror bears the words "the mirror which flatters not".

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