Heavy Machinery (album)

Heavy Machinery
Swedish and Japanese edition
Studio album by
Released1996 (1996)
StudioStarec Studios, Växjö; Moon Path, Sweden; The Brewery, North County, San Diego; 71st Street Recording, New York City
GenreJazz fusion, instrumental rock
Length73:59
LabelHeptagon
ProducerJens Johansson, Anders Johansson
Allan Holdsworth chronology
None Too Soon
(1996)
Heavy Machinery
(1996)
I.O.U. Live
(1997)
Jens Johansson chronology
Heavy Machinery
(1996)
Sonic Winter
(1997)
Alternative cover
US edition

Heavy Machinery is a collaborative studio album by guitarist Allan Holdsworth, keyboardist Jens Johansson and drummer Anders Johansson, released in 1996 through Heptagon Records (Sweden), and on 12 August 1997 through Shrapnel Records (United States) and Pony Canyon (Japan).

Confusingly, on the album's European/US release, "Macrowaves" is made up of complete silence after 2:51, with an additional improvised "filler" keyboard and drum solo by the Johanssons at 23:46. On the Japanese release, "Macrowaves" only comprises the first part as normal without any silence; the silence has instead been moved to the bonus track, "The Moose Are Marching", where it fills the space from 7:59 to 20:45, after which the latter keyboard solo from "Macrowaves" ends the album.