Fear Factory

[N00bs]

So yea, been a long time fan of this band. Love albums like "Soul of a New Machine and Demanufacture". Obviously, i love the song "Resurrection" off of "Obsolete". Havent been that intrigued with the band since Dino left as it seemed the band was seriously missing him much like Sepultura without Max. The "Transgression" album was a absolute travisty. However......... it has come to my attention that the band is making another run. I can see the sighs and oh noes already. But, Dino is back in the fold and together with Bell they have added the use of Stroud once again and my boy Hoglan on drums. The new album is due out in 2010 so you will end up seeing my rating at some point in the next couple of months. Never the less, a new track is up called "Powershifter". Sounds more along the lines of "Obsolete" and "Digimortal" but seems far more promising that the last opus. Enjoy.

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[About2Crash]

I love and hate Fear Factory. I think that Obsolete is a grand album, with some great songwriting balanced out with a few no nonsense rockers. Soul of a New Machine is a brutal while often bland record and Demanufacture is a record that is great when it's great and bland when it's bland. I like the song "Archetype" and otherwise the album is clown shoes. Never even gave Digimortal or Transgression a chance.

Now that Dino is back in the band with Gene Hoglan at their side I don't see how it can fail. Powershifter is a rad tune.

[Amok]

Despise them after the first two tracks off of Demanufacture. SoaNM was good and after that they went down hill big time.

[Marsallah]

I dislike everything about this band. Didn't like Soul, didn't like Demanufacture and didn't care what the band were up to next. It's computer music and I value raw power and humane atmosphere in my metal.

[N00bs]

I would never of guess you two didnt like them. Thanks for sharing.

[Amok]

The first CD is good, if not a bit repetitive. It's like a cross between early Godflesh and Napalm Death, though not as good as that sounds. After that came the commercialization, and in a bad way. Bell's singing on everything after the 1st two tracks of Demanufacture is Hell to these ears. I'd actually rather listen to disco. But, I'll still give their drummer props and the band for putting on a good show in '95.

[Missy]

I love Fear Factory. Just ask N00bs how I was dancing around the basement when he played the song for me.

[Ryukin]

i really hate when they attempt to be melodic and the singer tries to, you know, sing...

but really the drummer here is amazingly talented and probably a robot in disguise and nobody sounds like them. at least not for the first few years they were out. originality is key. somehow they made dozens of cool songs off of rhythms alone without sounding like hardcore breakdowns.

[N00bs]

Originally Posted by Amok

The first CD is good, if not a bit repetitive. It's like a cross between early Godflesh and Napalm Death, though not as good as that sounds. After that came the commercialization, and in a bad way. Bell's singing on everything after the 1st two tracks of Demanufacture is Hell to these ears. I'd actually rather listen to disco. But, I'll still give their drummer props and the band for putting on a good show in '95.

The funny thing is that FF never really became commercialized until "Obsolete" was released with the help of the Gary Numan cover. To this day "Pisschrist" is still one of my favorite songs from them and i dont feel that it really falls under the commericalized umbrella you have pointed too. Maybe if you took "Demanu" and put it on MTV now it might fall in line with today's more mainstream music but back then nobody understood or even touched it. As for Ryukin's comment on Burton's clean vocals. That was one of the best things i liked about him as a singer. He was one of the first singers that i had heard who did both rough and clean vocals. And the work he did on "Soul" to me was just out of this world.

[About2Crash]

I just don't see how this is "commercial" in any way other than that it is brilliant songwriting.

[N00bs]

That song in particular isnt. But "Edgecrusher", "Resurrection", "Descent", and "Cars" are easily MTV candy type songs. And for the record, just because its commercial doesnt mean its bad. People need to get over that shit already.

[About2Crash]

Yeah, Resurrection and Descent are commercial. Why? Because they are good easy songs to listen to that ANYONE could like, even if they don't like metal. Edgecrusher is your standard metal single. It still rocks. If anything, the worst songs on the record are the more "metal" stuff like "Freedom or Fire" or "Obsolete". The album is at it's best when it focuses on songwriting.

Too bad that Campbell is a shit singer live.

[Amok]

Being commercial isn't a bad thing--I like some latter Sentenced quite a bit. But there is a certain sound that divides fan bases and increases fan bases. SoaNM is a solid slab of inventive grind. They lost that edge after that CD and played songs that appealed to more people ( this happens when the heaviness drops down a notch and the songs get slower and less esoteric ), the sling shot being the song Zero Tolerance that appeared on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. If someone listened to that song and everything off of Obsolete and then listened to SoaNM, they wouldn't be able to tell it was from the same band. That's all i was getting at, so chill, like enraged's beard. For the record, the people I know that liked FF's catalogue and more mainstream music always stay away from one CD, FF's debut.

[About2Crash]

Eh, I definitely know what you are saying since most Fear Factory got thrown in with the nu metal crowd.

[herrieman]

First FF blew me away, but I was torched after Demanufacture! Such a well oiled machine FF was back then. I could hardly get used to Obsolete, but there are some killer tunes on it. The fourth... meh. In the meantime I have seen them four times, the first two shows ('93 and '96) were a blast, the third sucked big time and the fourth (Wacken 06) was OK, but not special. Just nice to see FF again, that's all.

These are my favorites: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZtj-wN404A
played it helluvalottatimes. Still great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcywPUrE9sE
the intro is awesome and the first riffs chill my bones. Burton was so blunt these days..

but this one still can blow some speakers at my place: [neat clip as well]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC2-VYjWyIk

The band back together is a good thing, but I wonder how long the law-stuff goes on between a. Burton/Dino vs. b. Raymond/Christian. Herrera is a great drummer, but Gene Hoglan ist Krieg!!!

I will check the new FF out, I never got to hear anything between Digimortal and errr... 2009.

[Zee]

so yeahhh, umm new FF is actually pretty good. Nice vocal melodies. cool rhythms, good production. Not amazing, but I never though FF was. Mechanize is just FF at their best, which is pretty good. 8/10

haha.... worst album review ever

[About2Crash]

i like it quite a lot. is it as good as obsolete and demanufacture? nope. but it's definitely a return to form!