One way to get job security: Engineer Ryan Massey has purchased Sharkbite Studios (Oakland, Calif.) from his employer. The busy facility recently hosted Communique, who finished mixing an EP with Massey and Mark Keaton. Machine Head began recording their new album, to be titled The Blackening (Roadrunner Records), with Keaton engineering.
From left: Machine Head bass player Adam Duce, engineer Mark Keaton and singer/guitarist Robert Flynn
