Artist: MACHINE HEAD
Album: SUPERCHARGER (CD)

Release date: 2001
EAN/UPS: 8714221007428
Media type: CD

Supercharger was released in October, 2001, just weeks after the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks. The lead (and only) single "Crashing Around You", was pulled from MTV and rock radio just as soon as it was added despite being the "most added" track in the United States. The pull was a result of the metaphorical "crashing" lyric in the song and the burning San Francisco skyline in the video. Machine Head's support tour for the album was done without help from their label Roadrunner Records, and after the release of Hellalive to fulfill their contract, led the band to a two-year hiatus from the label's American branch. Supercharger was ill-timed, and, as a result of little promotion, fell far short of the success of The Burning Red, which has sold about 134,000 copies in the US to date. Supercharger has sold about 45,000 copies in the US to date, making it a commercial failure.

With The Burning Red, the band changed their sound to nu metal. Supercharger was darker and heavier than The Burning Red, but lacked as much groove metal sound as Burn My Eyes and The More Things Change.... Two years later, the band would release Through the Ashes of Empires and return to their groove metal roots.

All songs written and composed by Machine Head except as noted below.

TRACKLIST:
No.     Title     Lyrics     Music     Length
    
1.     "Declaration"                   1:11
2.     "Bulldozer"       Robert Flynn     Flynn     4:35
3.     "White-Knuckle Blackout!"       Flynn, Adam Duce     Flynn, Ahrue Luster     3:15
4.     "Crashing Around You"       Flynn     Flynn     3:14
5.     "Kick You When You're Down"       Flynn     Flynn, Luster     4:01
6.     "Only The Names"       Flynn     Flynn     6:08
7.     "All In Your Head"       Flynn     Flynn, Luster     4:06
8.     "American High"       Flynn     Flynn, Dave McClain     3:48
9.     "Brown Acid"                   0:59
10.     "Nausea"       Flynn, Duce     Flynn, McClain, Luster     4:24
11.     "Blank Generation"       Flynn     Flynn, Luster     6:38
12.     "Trephination"       Flynn     Flynn, McClain, Luster     4:59
13.     "Deafening Silence"       Flynn     Flynn, Luster     5:33
14.     "Supercharger"       Flynn, Duce     Flynn, McClain     3:48

Total length:    56:39