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''Machina'' was released as a single album on February 29, 2000, with a bonus disc, ''Still Becoming Apart'', available at certain stores.[[File:Spiotm.jpg|thumb|right|"I of the Mourning" promotional single cover|link=Special:FilePath/Spiotm.jpg]]

A video was made for "[[Stand Inside Your Love]]", the planned first single, in late 1999, but at the last minute, "[[The Everlasting Gaze]]" was issued as the album's first promotional radio single in December 1999. "Stand Inside Your Love" was released as the first commercially available single on January 21, 2000. "I of the Mourning" was also released as a promotional single and received limited airplay. "Heavy Metal Machine" was issued as a promotional cassette but was not distributed to radio stations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?page=COLLDETAILS&item=882 |title=..: SPfreaks :.. |work=spfreaks.com |accessdate=October 9, 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716115025/http://www.spfreaks.com/default.aspx?page=COLLDETAILS&item=882 |archivedate=July 16, 2011 }}</ref>

On March 9, the band went on the Thursday edition of ''@MTV Week'' at Broadway Studios in New York City for a half-hour live TV special. During the broadcast they performed "The Everlasting Gaze" as well as "I of the Mourning" after an online and call-in voting competition between three songs from ''Machina''. The special also featured [[W:Carson Daly|Carson Daly]] interviewing the band members and online chats with the band, and an interactive online video for "The Crying Tree of Mercury."