Souls of a New Machine
Dino Cazares - guitar and bass
Burton C. Bell - vocals
Raymond Herrera - drums
Andrew Shives - bass
1. Marytr
2. Leechmaster
3. Scapegoat
(guitar tab)
4. Crisis
5. Crash Test
6. Flesh Hold
7. Lifeblind
8. Scumgrief
9. Natividad
10. Big God/Raped Souls
11. Arise Above Oppression
12. Self Immolation
13. Suffer Age
14. W.O.E.
15. Desecrate
16. Escape Confusion
17. Manipulation
This is Fear Factory's debut cd. It's very death metal oriented. Burton does good clean vocals and very low growling vocals that are pretty good. This some of the best American Death Metal ever created! There are a lot of songs on this cd. The best sings I think are "Martyr," "Scapegoat," "Big God/ Raped Souls" and "Self Immolation." Most of the riffs are pretty good and this cd has excellent production.
Production rating 8/10
Songwriting 7/10
Fear is the Mind Killer
Dino Cazares - guitar and bass
Burton C. Bell - vocals
Raymond Herrera - drums
Andrew Shives - bass
Raynor Diego - samples/keyboards
1. Martyr (Suffer Bastard Mix)
2. Self Immolation (Vein Tap Mix)
3. Scapegoat (Pigfuck Mix)
4. Scumgrief (Deep Dub Trauma Mix)
5. Self Immolation (Liquid Sky Mix)
6. Self Immolation (LP Version)
This remix of a few tracks from "Soul of a New Machine." With the exception of Martyr, all the remixes are pretty damn good. They all feature weird computer/keyboard generated effects, remixing and skipping and manipulation of Burton's voice, and techno drum beats. If you like techno then this is your album.
Overall rating 9/10
Songwriting 9/10 (They're all remixes)
Demanufacture
Dino Cazares - Heavy Duty Sacraficer (guitar)
Burton C. Bell - Dry Lung Vocal Martyr (vocals)
Raymond Herrera - Maximum Effective Pulse Generator (drums)
Christian Olde Wolbers - Total Harmonic Distortion (bass)
1. Demanufacture
(guitar tab)
2. Self Bias Resistor
(guitar tab)
3. Zero Signal
(guitar tab)
4. Replica
(guitar tab)
5. New Breed
6. Dog Day Sunrise
(guitar tab)
7. Body Hammer
(guitar tab)
8. Flashpoint
9. H-K (Hunter-Killer)
(guitar tab)
10. Pisschrist
(guitar tab)
11. A Therapy for Pain
12. Your Mistake*
13. Resistancia
14. New Breed (revolutionary designed mix)*
15. Replica (electric sheep mix)*
Fear Factory is a great combination of heaviness, speed and atmosphere. This band is very unique and diverse in it's sound. Songs like "Demanufacture" and "Dog Day Sunrise" speak for themselves. One minute, it's Dino's down-tuned, fast, heavily distorted rhythm parts with grindcore screams and the next minute it's atmospheric keyboards, synths and clean melodic vocals.
The drums on this album are amazing! They keep up with Dino's speed but they also keep the rhthym. The synths are done by two studio guys, but the keyboard concepts are by Fear Factory.
This is the real 90's metal. Not Korn, not Limp Bizkit, Fear Factory.
Production rating 10/10
Songwriting 9/10
*Unfortunately, these are bonus tracks.
Remanufacture
Dino Cazares - guitar
Burton C. Bell - vocals
Raymond Herrera - drums
Christian Olde Wolbers - bass
1. Remanufacture (Demanufacture)
2. National Panel Beating (Body Hammer)
3. Genetic Blueprint (New Breed)
4. Faithless (Zero Signal)
5. Bionic Chronic
6. Cloning Technology (Replica)
7. Burn (Flashpoint)
8. T-1000 (H-K)
9. Machines of Hate (Self Bias Resistor)
10. 21st Century Jesus (Pisschrist)
11. Bound for Forgiveness (A Therapy for Pain)
12. Refinery
13. Remanufacture (Edited Version)
I didn't really like this album. There's too much techno and rap influence for me. All the songs are ok. They took a lot of guitar parts out, and put in little samples and techno drum beats and shit. There's very little dynamic or intensity of these songs. Since of just about all the heavy fast guitar parts have been removed and so the intensity is also removed, producing a very boring remix album. Fear Factory gives a little insert and it says they wish to promote non-conformity, and they delivered. The thing is that I don't like these remixes. I like the remixed bonues tracks and "Fear is the Mind Killer" a lot better.
Production rating 6/10 (The vocals had no dynamics whatsoever)
Songwriting 3/10 (It's all generic homogenized dance muzak)
Obsolete
Dino Cazares - guitar
Burton C. Bell - vocals
Raymond Herrera - drums
Christian Olde Wolbers - bass
1. Shock
2. Edgecrusher
3. Smasher/Devourer
4. Securitron [police-state 2000]
5. Descent
6. Hi - Tech Hate
7. Freedom of Fire
8. Obsolete
9. Resurrection
10. Timelessness
On this album, Burton C. Bell uses his singing voice much more often. It's on almost all of the tracks. The guitars have pretty much stayed the same, downtuned, fast and aggressive. On some songs, Bell screams while the bass and drums hold the song together. Some of the tracks sound almost grindcore-ish. I like "Resurrection" because it's a ballad but it also has it's intense moments. There's a lot of synth and keyboard work on this latest offering by Fear Factory. The lyrics have a message. The whole album is based on man's endless quest for technology, but he loses his humanity and compassion and lets the machines rule him. Some of the lyrics don't flow. It's hard to explain.
Production rating 10/10
Songwriting 7/10
Live in Rochester:
September 6, 1998
1. Shock
2. Self Bias Resistor
3. Edgecrusher
4. Demanufacture
5. Smasher/Devourer
6. Zero Signal
7. Securitron
8. Replica
9. Got to Get Away
10. Scapegoat
Slayer, Kilgore and Hatebreed appeared also, so I'll do a complete review on the concert.
Hatebreed: Well Hatebreed seemed to be a heavy-groove oriented band with little or no melody, originality or talent. They were loud and they played one (only one) cool riff, it was evil and chromatic. But they were just a filler.
Kilgore: The lead singer for this band seemed to be the Evil James Hetfield twin. He had great vocals. This band didn't play any good riffs but they were loud and the drums were okay. Boy, the Evil Hetfield twin seemed mighty pissed. It was probably the "Reload" album that got him angry.
Fear Factory: The best of 'em all. The only complaint I have is that the clean vocals were too loud, and they got all muddy and distorted. They put on a really intense show. Burton was great and Dino killed the fucking guitar. Herrera sounds like a drum machine he's so damn good. It was Dino's birthday, so the crowd sang "Happy Birthday" and then he smashed a Pinata with his guitar and threw the remains into the crowd. Burton gave a little speech about Dino and the crowd threw him the head of the Pinata. Burton was like "the fuck?," and threw it back but the crowd spat it back at him. So this happened twice and then they played the last song and that was it.
Slayer: In my opinion, it was Fear Factory's show and Slayer should've opened for them. Out of the fifteen(?) songs they "played" I heard only three good riffs. They were single notes and they were really evil. The fucking idiots were so loud that you couldn't make out a high 'E' from a low 'E'. The worst part of the show was when they performed "solos." God, that sucked. I've seen worse mosh pits at Offspring concerts, well except for during one song. They were so damn loud, all you could here was drums and the evil single note riffs. All the bands were too loud. What I don't care for is when you sound more noisy than musical. Why play loud when you can't hear the notes that are being played. Well I guess if Slayer did that, people would realise what garbage they've been listening to. Slayer's "music" seems to be composed of randomly organized notes upon more randomly organized notes with fast speed-picking and dumb shouted vocals. Some guy got on stage and put his hands on Kerry King's shoulders. He must've had balls the size of the band's tour bus. He's lucky Kerry and his pals didn't kill him onstage. The most fun I had was watching people "dance" to that crap.
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