Machine Messiah opens slowly: the title track spends minutes building over clean vocals before the band lets go, and that sense of space runs through the record. Jens Bogren produced a Sepultura album here for the first time. I Am the Enemy then heads for hardcore territory, while Phantom Self opens out with strings and Brazilian rhythms. The fourteenth studio album originally appeared in January 2017 through Nuclear Blast. This edition is a 2-LP on blue and light blue vinyl, with a gatefold sleeve and two lyric inserts, in a run of 500 copies.