Total Brutal is the debut full-length album by Austrian Death Machine, a project of As I Lay Dying's vocalist Tim Lambesis.

The band and record are based upon Arnold Schwarzenegger and his movies.

Tim plays all of the instruments (apart from guest solo guitar work) and performs vocals but "Ahhhnold" is billed as the vocalist.

Destroy the Runner vocalist Chad Ackerman voices all of the Schwarzenegger impersonations.

On the cover of the original release of the album "Machine" was spelled with two 'i's, while new pressings of the album have the spelling corrected.