Take My Scars
"Take My Scars" is a Machine Head single, issued as an EP on Roadrunner Records on 24 November 1997. The title track comes from the band's second album, The More Things Change…, which arrived the same year, and it is sung from the point of view of the Devil, a neat twist for a groove metal band that had already announced itself with Burn My Eyes in 1994.
The song kept a life beyond that record. It turned up on the band's live album Hellalive, and in 2000 it was used on the soundtrack to the film Faust: Love of the Damned, a fitting home for a song with such a diabolical narrator. For anyone tracing Machine Head's story between their debut and The Burning Red in 1999, it is a handy snapshot of where the band stood in the late 1990s.
Take My Scars: tracklist and credits
4 tracks · 15:22Tracklist
- 1Take My ScarsDuce, Flynn, Mader, McClain4:21
- 2Negative CreepKurt Cobain2:41
- 3Take My Scars (live)Duce, Flynn, Mader, McClain4:24
- 4Blood for Blood (live)Duce, Flynn, Kontos, Mader3:56
- Produced by
- Colin Richardson, Machine Head, Helena Nenne Zetterberg
- Recorded at
- Hyde Street Studios, The Plant Studios
- Mixed by
- Robert Flynn, Colin Richardson, Andy Sneap, Jay Baumgardner, Mats Landberg
- Mixed at
- Larrabee Sound Studios
- Engineered by
- Andy Sneap, Vincent Wojno, Mats Landberg, Ulf Östling
- Label
- Roadrunner Records
- Length
- 15:22
Line-up
- Adam Duce · electric bass guitar, background vocals
- Robert Flynn · electric guitar, lead vocals
- Logan Mader · electric guitar
- Dave McClain · drums (drum set)
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How we know the release date wikipedia + wikidata
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 1997 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 24 November 1997 | |
| Wikidata | 24 November 1997 | |
| UK / Europe release | 1997 | earliest UK or European date |
3 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | GB | Roadrunner Records | 016861225735 | original |
| 1997 | GB | Roadrunner Records | 016861225759 | original |
| 21 January 1998 | JP | Roadrunner Records | 4988015075212 | other |
Cover art sources
fanarttv · upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| fanarttv ✓ | 1000×1000 | upscaled: major: best source 1000x1000, upscaled to 1500 (x1.50) |
| coverartarchive | 568×492 | rejected |