Bloodstone & Diamonds

The album was once again mixed by Colin Richardson with additional tracking, editing, and mixing by Andy Sneap and Steve Lagudi. All album art was done by Travis Shinn. It is the band's first album not to be released on Roadrunner Records.{{cite web|url=http://loudwire.com/machine-head-new-album-2014-sign-with-nuclear-blast-entertainment/|title=Machine Head to Release New Album in Early 2014|website=Loudwire|date=October 2, 2013 }}

Like with previous Machine Head releases, the album's lyrics detail political and social themes, particularly civil unrest, dissatisfaction and injustice, often with violent conclusions. The song "Night of Long Knives" is not about the Röhm-Putsch, but instead the Manson Family murders in Hollywood in 1969.{{cite web |title=Machine Head's Robb Flynn - Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdosgjHESeE |website=YouTube |accessdate=28 March 2019}}

"Imaginal Cells" is an instrumental featuring samples from the audiobook Spontaneous Evolution by Dr. Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman.{{cite web|url=http://machinehead.tumblr.com/post/94641501848/machine-head-bloodstone-diamonds|title=MACHINE HEAD - BLOODSTONE & DIAMONDS|website=THE GENERAL JOURNALS}}

The album was met with universal acclaim by music critics, with Dom Lawson of The Guardian writing "Striking an exquisite balance between brute force, insistent melody and bold experimentation, this is the finest mainstream metal album of 2014 by a huge margin." In the first week of release, the album debuted at No. 21 on the Billboard 200 chart,{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/machine-heads-bloodstone-diamonds-cracks-u-s-top-25/|title=MACHINE HEAD's 'Bloodstone & Diamonds' Cracks U.S. Top 25|date=19 November 2014|publisher=}} becoming the band's highest charting album ever.

{{track listing

| title1 = Now We Die

| length1 = 7:10

| lyrics1 = Flynn

| music1 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel}}

| title2 = Killers & Kings

| length2 = 4:32

| lyrics2 = Flynn

| music2 = {{hlist|Demmel|Flynn}}

| title3 = Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones

| length3 = 6:06

| lyrics3 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel|MacEachern}}

| music3 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel|MacEachern|McClain}}

| title4 = Night of Long Knives

| length4 = 6:48

| lyrics4 = Flynn

| music4 = Flynn

| title5 = Sail into the Black

| length5 = 8:29

| lyrics5 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel}}

| music5 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel|McClain}}

| title6 = Eyes of the Dead

| lyrics6 = Flynn

| music6 = Flynn

| length6 = 6:25

| title7 = Beneath the Silt

| length7 = 4:43

| lyrics7 = Flynn

| music7 = Flynn

| title8 = In Comes the Flood

| length8 = 7:22

| lyrics8 = {{hlist|Flynn|MacEachern}}

| music8 = Flynn

| title9 = Damage Inside

| length9 = 3:24

| lyrics9 = Flynn

| music9 = McClain

| title10 = Game Over

| length10 = 6:36

| lyrics10 = Flynn

| music10 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel}}

| title11 = Imaginal Cells

| note11 = instrumental

| length11 = 3:36

| lyrics11 =

| music11 = {{hlist|Demmel|Flynn}}

| title12 = Take Me Through the Fire

| length12 = 5:48

| lyrics12 = {{hlist|Flynn|Demmel}}

| music12 = {{hlist|Demmel|Flynn}}

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• Robb Flynn – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8), string arrangement (1, 5, 8), percussion (5)
• Phil Demmel – lead guitar
• Jared MacEachern – bass, backing vocals
• Dave McClain – drums, additional guitar (track 9)

• Rhys Fulber – keyboards & string arrangement (tracks 1, 5), percussion (5)
• Jordan Fish (of Bring Me the Horizon) – keyboards (tracks 3, 8, 9), string arrangement (8)
• Kathryn Marshall, Eugenia Wie, Chad Kaltinger and Vanessa Ruotolo – strings (track 1)
• Phillip Brezina, Charles Akert and Ivo Bukolic – strings (track 8)

• Andy Sneap – tracking, editing
• Colin Richardson – mixing
• Juan Urteaga – production, engineering
• Lee Bothwick – engineering
• Steve Lagudi – engineering
• Ted Jensen – mastering
• Strephon Taylor – design, layout

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• {{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0002759963 |label=Bloodstone & Diamonds}}
• [http://www.nuclearblast.de/en/label/music/band/discography/details/3554989.3168273.bloodstone-diamonds.html Bloodstone & Diamonds] at Nuclear Blast

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