Machine Head’s Rob Flynn has fired back at Children of Bodom’s Alexi Laiho in his personal blog after the latter vented public anger at the cancellation of Machine Head’s North American tour which Children of Bodom were meant to support.
The official reasons given for the tour cancellation that billed an epic line-up of Machine Head, Children of Bodom, Epica and Battlecross was that Machine Head needed to finish work on their upcoming album ‘Bloodstone & Diamonds‘. The cancellation obviously frustrated fans and bands alike who saw this as an opportunity to view a vast support of European metal and to gain a North American following respectively.
Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho was one especially frustrated as he took to Facebook to complain that tours should not cancelled because of album delays, and called out Machine Head for cancelling the lucrative tour. The public gaining from Laiho has now cause Machine Head mainman Rob Flynn to respond to the frustration taking a shot at Laiho in his blog. He writes:
“The Children of Bodom ‘Hate Crew’ has been out in full force in light of the U.S. tour being rescheduled. It’s typical shit talking, albeit a ton of it to the actual MACHINE HEAD fans, saying ‘how much better Bodom are than Machine Head’ and how ‘Bodom should’ve been headlining over Machine Head,’ and ‘fuck Machine Head.’
“Most people usually need the motivation to act like fools and Alexi’s little bitch-ass response certainly got the ‘Hate Crew’ fired up.
“Hate Crew?… pffffft!… more like ‘Alexi-ain’t-that-Great-Crew!’, more like, ‘bought-a-ticket-too-Late-Crew!’, more like, ‘It’s-not-my-fault-you’re-a-virgin-and-can’t-get-a-Date-Crew’!!
“But to the weak attacking the MH castle? Whatever… we’ve got the Head Cases, the fucking MH diehards, armed to the teeth and defending us to the bitterest of deaths.
“For every person that complains about the tour getting canceled the Head Cases are, like, ‘Shut the fuck up, life goes on, M F’n H to the death!!!’ So for every one of those people, I thank you VERY much. Truly, from the bottom of my heart, I appreciate the fact that you do that. Because shit DOES happen and sometimes life DOESN’T go the way you want it to.”
While Laiho wasn’t the most of professionals about the tour cancellation, Flynn takes it to a new level actually fuelling a fan war. It is very unnecessary to publicly call out musicians and fans in the very aggressive manner which he wrote, but he obviously felt the need to defend the tour cancellation. It feels there is more too it than we know, but expect more drama to follow after this shout out.
