Machine is the second studio album by Static-X, released on May 22, 2001, and recorded at Studio 508 (Los Angeles). When compared to the band’s other albums, Machine features more electronics and industrial effects, and more screamed vocals from Wayne Static. It was also the final Static-X album for eighteen years to feature drummer Ken Jay (although he received songwriting credits on the band’s subsequent third album), and the last for four years to feature lead guitarist Koichi Fukuda, who, despite having already left Static-X, was credited as a keyboardist on the album.
While the band toured Wisconsin Death Trip, Wayne Static wrote the entirety of this record by himself on the band’s tour bus while the rest of the band partied. Because of this isolated effort, when the band went in to record the record, Static insisted that royalties for the album’s sales would not be split an even four ways. This created tension in the band, leading to Fukuda‘s departure before recording began and his eventual replacement with Tripp Eisen, and Jay‘s departure just before recording for Shadow Zone began. Static played all the guitars on the album and Eisen was only involved with the album’s photoshoot.
Tracklist:
- Bien Venidos
- Get to the Gone
- Permanence
- Black and White
- This Is Not
- Otsego Undead
- Cold
- Structural Defect
- …In a Bag
- Burn to Burn
- Machine
- A Dios Alma Perdida
Static-X
Wayne Static: lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming
Tony Campos: bass, backing vocals
Ken Jay: drums
Additional personnel
Koichi Fukuda: additional keyboards on “Otsego Undead”
Ulrich Wild: keyboards, programming
Production
Ulrich Wild: producer, mixing, engineering
Tom Baker: mastering
Troy Wallace: A&R
Flem: Art direction, design
Eric Dinyer: artwork
James McCrone: assistant mixer
Wayne Richard Wells (November 4, 1965 – November 1, 2014).
