{{refimprove|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Chopping Machine | type = Studio album | artist = Colour Haze | cover = Chopping Machine.jpg | alt = | released = 1995 | recorded = January 30 – February 3, 1995 | venue = | studio = Mystery Music Prod. Munich | genre = Stoner rock, psychedelic rock | length = 60:06 | label = | producer = | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = Seven | next_year = 1998 }}
'''''Chopping Machine''''' is the debut album by the stoner rock band Colour Haze, released in 1995. It was recorded January 30 – February 3, 1995, and mixed in July 1995 in Munich.
The album received a rating of 8 out of 12 from {{ill|Visions.de|de|Visions}}.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.visions.de/review/colour-haze-chopping-machine/|title=Colour Haze: Chopping Machine|type=review|date=30 November 1999|magazine=Visions|language=de|access-date=22 December 2025}}</ref> ''Ox-Fanzine'' criticized the overall package and booklet, whereas the music was "actually really good. Technically flawless, dense noise attacks full of clean breaks".<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.ox-fanzine.de/review/chopping-machine-cd-25702|title=COLOUR HAZE Chopping Machine|type=review|last=Kerpen|first=Thomas|year=1996|magazine=Ox-Fanzine|issue=22|language=de|access-date=22 December 2025}}</ref>
== Track listing == {{tracklist | headline = | extra_column = | all_writing = Stefan Koglek, except where noted | title1 = Subversive | note1 = | length1 = 14:24
| title2 = Why Don't You | note2 = | writer2 = | extra2 = | length2 = 5:50
| title3 = Mud | note3 = | writer3 = | extra3 = | length3 = 6:38
| title4 = Chosen Way | note4 = | lyrics4 = Christian Wiesner, Koglek | music4 = Koglek, Tim Höfer | length4 = 5:24
| title5 = Dirt | note5 = | writer5 = | extra5 = | length5 = 8:57
| title6 = God's Eyes | note6 = | lyrics6 = Koglek | music6 = Wiesner | length6 = 8:31
| title7 = Sometimes | note7 = | lyrics7 = Koglek | music7 = Koglek, Höfer | length7 = 4:15
| title8 = Chopping Machine | note8 = | writer8 = | extra8 = | length8 = 6:10 | total_length = 60:06 }}
== Personnel == ; Colour Haze * Stefan Koglek – guitar, vocals, violin arrangement on "Subversive" * Christian Wiesner – bass, didjeridoo, lead vocals on "Chosen Way" * Tim Höfer – percussion * Marco Naumann – live sound
; Additional * Willi Haas – violins and violin arrangement on "Subversive" * Chris Void – engineering
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