"More Than Machines" features
electronic beats, and riffs which have been compared to American
nu metal band
Korn. Gavin Rossdale told
Loudwire that "More Than Machines" was written about what he saw to be the "destruction of
women's rights" through
anti-abortion laws, the "
destruction of the planet" and the rise of
artificial intelligence. Discussing his decision to take aim at changes to abortion law, especially the overturning of Roe v. Wade in June 2022, Rossdale explained to
Kerrang! that October: "[The overturning] didn’t make any sense to me at all, I'm really lucky to have grown up in
London, which is really progressive and mixed and pretty forward-thinking, so things like that in America seem really strange to me. You have these old boys in the
Supreme Court, and
one woman, telling women about their bodies. And I can’t get my head around that; governments getting involved in the most private and sacred area of a woman's journey." == Chart ==