# Chopping Machine

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Chopping Machine
| type       = Studio album
| artist     = [Colour Haze](/source/Colour_Haze)
| cover      = Chopping Machine.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = 1995
| recorded   = January 30 – February 3, 1995
| venue      = 
| studio     = Mystery Music Prod. Munich
| genre      = [Stoner rock](/source/Stoner_rock), [psychedelic rock](/source/psychedelic_rock)
| length     = 60:06
| label      =
| producer   =
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [Seven](/source/Seven_(Colour_Haze_album))
| next_year  = 1998
}}

'''''Chopping Machine''''' is the debut [album](/source/album) by the [stoner rock](/source/stoner_rock) band [Colour Haze](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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

==References==
{{Reflist}}

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Category:1995 albums
Category:Colour Haze albums

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