The More Things Change...

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{{Infobox album

| name = The More Things Change...

| type = studio

| artist = Machine Head

| cover = Machine Head - The More Things Change....jpg

| alt =

| released = {{Start date|1997|3|25}}{{cite web|last=Erlewine|first=Stephen Thomas|author-link=Stephen Thomas Erlewine|title=The More Things Change - Machine Head {{!}} Songs, Reviews, Credits|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-more-things-change-mw0000020966|access-date=August 23, 2013|publisher=AllMusic}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = {{hlist|The Plant (Sausalito)|Hyde Street Studios (San Francisco)}}

| genre = {{hlist|Groove metal{{cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/machine-head-the-more-things-change-story-behind-album |title= How Machine Head's The More Things Change… took ’90s metal to a new level of intensity |website=Metal Hammer |date=March 26, 2021 |access-date=September 1, 2021 |last=Lawson |first=Dom}}{{cite web|last=Law|first=Sam|date=July 10, 2019|title=The 50 best albums from 1999|url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/the-50-best-albums-from-1999/|access-date=September 21, 2021|website=Kerrang!}}|speed metal{{cite web|last=Monger|first=James Christopher|title=Machine Head Biography, Songs, & Albums|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/machine-head-mn0000221445/biography|access-date=September 21, 2021|publisher=AllMusic}}|progressive metal}}

| length = {{Duration|m=52|s=42}}

| label = Roadrunner

| producer = Colin Richardson

| prev_title = Burn My Eyes

| prev_year = 1994

| next_title = The Burning Red

| next_year = 1999

| misc = {{Singles

| name = The More Things Change...

| type = studio

| single1 = Ten Ton Hammer

| single1date = 1997

| single2 = Take My Scars

| single2date = November 24, 1997

}}

}}

{{Music ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}

| rev2 = Chronicles of Chaos

| rev2score = 7/10{{Cite web |last=Bromley |first=Adrian |date=March 16, 1997 |title=CoC : Machine Head - The More Things Change... : Review |url=http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/articles.aspx?id=2-387 |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=Chronicles of Chaos}}

| rev3 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev3score = 8/10{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties |publisher=Collector's Guide Publishing |year=2007 |location=Burlington, Ontario, Canada |isbn=978-1-894959-62-9 |page=257}}

| rev4 = {{nowrap|The Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}

| rev4score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite book|editor-last=Larkin|editor-first=Colin|editor-link=Colin Larkin|title=Encyclopedia of Popular Music|year=2006|publisher=MUZE |volume=5 |edition=4th|isbn=978-0-19-531373-4|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music |page=408 |chapter=Machine Head |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofpo0005unse_l6k3/page/408}}

| rev5 = In Music We Trust

| rev5score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Follett |first=Todd |date=July–August 1997 |title=Machine Head: The More Things Change... |url=https://www.inmusicwetrust.com/articles/01r25.html |access-date=2024-05-29 |magazine=In Music We Trust |issue=1 }}

| rev6 = Metal Hammer

| rev6score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{Cite magazine |last=Silver |first=Dan |date=April 1997 |title=Under the Hammer |magazine=Metal Hammer |location=UK |publisher=Dennis Publishing |pages=58–59}}

| rev7 = NME

| rev7score = 1/10{{cite magazine |url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000410reviews.html |title=Machine Head - The More Things Change... |last=Beaumont |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Beaumont (journalist) |date=April 12, 1997 |magazine=NME |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000817192126/http://www.nme.com/reviews/reviews/19980101000410reviews.html |archive-date=August 17, 2000 |access-date=November 2, 2019}}

| rev8 = Rock Hard

| rev8score = 9/10{{Cite web |last=Kupfer |first=Thomas |date=March 25, 1997 |title=The More Things Change... |url=https://www.rockhard.de/reviews/machine-head-the-more-things-change |access-date=2024-05-29 |website=www.rockhard.de |language=de-DE}}

| rev9 = Select

| rev9score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{cite magazine |url=http://selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk/showpage.php?file=wp-content/uploads/2014/03/albums44.jpg |title=Machine Head - The More Things Change... |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=April 1997 |publisher=EMAP |page=110 |magazine=Select |access-date= November 2, 2019 |via=selectmagazinescans.monkeon.co.uk}}

| rev10 = Vox

| rev10score = 6/10{{Cite magazine |last=Ewing |first=Jerry |date=April 1997 |title=Reviews |magazine=Vox |publisher=IPC |issue=78 |page=103}}

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The More Things Change… is the second studio album by American heavy metal band Machine Head, released on March 25, 1997, through Roadrunner Records. It is the band's last release to feature original guitarist Logan Mader, and the first to feature drummer Dave McClain. The album's title alludes to the first part of the phrase, "The more things change, the more they stay the same"; the same phrase is mentioned during the chorus of "Struck a Nerve". The More Things Change... reached #138 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1997. By July 1998, it had sold 400,000 copies worldwide,{{Cite magazine |last=Chirazi |first=Steffen |date=July 25, 1998 |title=The Harder They Come |magazine=Kerrang! |pages=40–43 |issue=709}} with 115,000 copies sold in the United States (as of 2002).{{cite web|date=April 30, 2002|title=Metal/Hard Rock Album Sales In The US As Reported By SoundScan|url=https://blabbermouth.net/news/metal-hard-rock-album-sales-in-the-us-as-reported-by-soundscan/|access-date=August 23, 2013|publisher=Blabbermouth.net}} In 2020, it was named one of the 20 best metal albums of 1997 by Metal Hammer magazine.{{cite web |title=The Top 20 best metal albums of 1997 |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-top-20-best-metal-albums-of-1997/2 |website=Metal Hammer |publisher=Future plc |access-date=March 6, 2021 |date=December 2, 2020}}