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List Price: $17.98 | | Label: Roadrunner Records
Salesrank: 28978
Released: August 9, 1994 |
| Our Price: $12.64 |
| Used Price: $2.99 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Burn My Eyes Track Listing:
1. Davidian
2. Old
3. Thousand Lies
4. None But My Own
5. Rage to Overcome
6. Death Church
7. Nation on Fire
8. Blood for Blood
9. I'm Your God Now
10. Real Eyes, Realize, Real Lies
11. Block
Editorial Review:
Japanese pressing includes two bonus tracks. Roadrunner. 2009.
Burn My Eyes Reviews:
Burn My Eyes > The Blackening 
2009-11-19 - Since I'm terrible at expressing myself in words, this review will be short and sweet. This album is absolute killer from beginning to end. It's Pantera style with a little extra. I f'ing love it! "Burn My Eyes" is Machine Head's best album by far. It's in my top 5 of metal albums in the 90's. \m/ Machine F'ing Head!!!
Great to do business with 
2009-05-18 - Shipped fast, in excellent shape inside/out, and great price...what else to say other than the title of this review?
A Top-Notch album,great lyrics!
2009-03-15 - This is Machine Head's first album and I must say it's brilliantly made!'Burn My Eyes' is packed full of hard-hitting guitars,great drumming,and the vocal talents of Rob Flynn are simply unparalled!One thing I can honestly recommend in this album is this lyrics...that's right the freaking lyrics.There's alot of rage filled lyrics in every track which everything on the album is very catchy.A must for a taste of metal in the early 90's.
pure brutal hardcore thrash with a twist of america hate
2008-12-31 - if vio=lence was not hard enough for you Rob found a way to make his riffs heavier than hell.drawling from many sources like(pantera,biohazard,sepultra& newer bands mixed with the old school thrash know how they created a cd that they themselfs couldn't touch the power of for ten years it took phil demmel (vio-lence) to push them to the next level of fury a more mainlining thrash vibe on second guitar.
A thrash classic? A great metal album? Oh please. 9% 
2008-12-21 - This album is praised a lot by mainstream metal listeners but is lambasted heavily by many a metal elitist, and for good reason. This album is truly awful.
For one, stop calling this junk thrash!! Thrash has jagged (often fast, occasionally mid-paced) guitar riffs and fast paced drums, "Burn My Eyes," however, lacks both. "Blood for Blood" jacks up the speed in both the guitars and drums and would be a good song if it weren't for the silly "bad boy" vocals from Rob Flynn. The drums can be decent at times, but the guitars are what really hurt this album. This album is chocked full of worthless groove because it's easy to make simple chugging riffs that are "heavy," it requires effort to write solid riffs that are actually aggressive. Also, as stated before, Rob Flynn's laughable rap metal styled monosyllabic vocals really bring this album down along with the guitars. The lyrics don't help this album, either. It's the cliché themes of respect and being tough, nothing new and nothing good to begin with. This sounds like Pantera's "Vulgar Display of Power" (another awful album) with more appeal to the wiggers because of the inclusion of more "tough guy" imagery taken from the hardcore and rap scenes. In fact, I might even call this "wigger metal" because this is slow "heavy" music screaming "yo," "respect," and "muthaph**ah" while the fans jump to this slow, boring stuff. I listen to metal to get away from that tripe, why would I want a "metal" album full of it then?!! When I listen to any metal album, I don't want to groove with the music, I want to rage!!
"Davidian," like much of the album, is full of groove, but is somewhat redeeming because it moves along at a nice pace. "Blood for Blood," as stated before, is the best song (though not quite good) on the album because it sounds somewhat like a proper thrash tune. "I'm Your God Now" sounds like a rejected Nirvana song (very grunge-oriented), the rest of the album is that putrid groove-laden "muthaph**ah attitude" all around. In short, "Burn My Eyes" is heavy for the sake of being heavy, tries to cover up the lack of true aggression by packing it with the "bad boy" vocals that would certainly appeal to any misfit 15 year-old who thinks he's the toughest guy in the school because he stole some kid's lunch money.
Many fans call this album the best Machine Head has to offer, some others say "The Blackening." If this is the best Machine Head has to offer, I don't even want to think about the "bad" albums like "The Burning Red" and "Supercharger." I gave this one a 9% because "Davidian" and "Blood for Blood" have some forgiving moments, but the rest is unbearable.
Listen to Rob Flynn's first band, Vio-Lence; preferably the albums "Eternal Nightmare" and "Oppressing the Masses," both of which wipe the floor with any MH album. For other REAL thrash albums that totally rip BME to pieces, check out Pestilence's "Malleus Malleficarum," Morbid Saint's "Spectrum of Death," Kreator's "Endless Pain," Sodom's "Persecution Mania," and Hypnosia's "Extreme Hatred" for starters. Unless if you like metal that's slow, groovy, and full of fake aggression, don't even think about listening to this.
Finally, Flynn is desecrating the name of the classic Deep Purple album with this horrid band.
