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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I am usually drawn to the work of the most skilled, (and often heavy), guitarists, like Vinnie Moore, Tony Macalpine, Michael Romeo, Michael Angelo, Steve Vai, Jason Becker, etc., but I borrowed this from a housemate, having heard it many years ago but having forgot about it. I was totally amazed at how brilliant this album is. There is certainly no guitar soloing but the whole band seem to have a watertight vision and they work like a machine towards achieving it. But in addition to this, every single song on the album is a classic in its own right, and each one is totally distinctive, (with the possible exception of the last song which basically summarises the vision of the whole album). There are influences from The Terminator here, (on H.K. [hunter killer] which is actually what a terminator is the latest version of in the story, and a sample from the movie can be heard in the song "the war against the machines"); in fact I think that The Terminator could have been one of the main inspirations of the band in general and may have been the main inspiration for the album, (and maybe the band name, seeing as in the first film [and the only one that I like] it is implicitly told that the robots build other robots, and these 'factories' might have been the inspiration for the band name... but either way, fear factory is a great name for a band and suits their vision well). The singer has two 'personalities', like Jeckyll and Hyde. Often he sounds like an orc grunting, (which is very effective in fact and true to the atmosphere and drama of the songs), but he then shifts, (with absolutely no transition, so it sounds like another singer), to one of the best singing voices that I have heard, not unlike Kurt Cobain only better. Another great feature of the album is the unbelievably fast drumming, (particularly the trilled cymbols), and the stylish palm-muted rhythm 'shredding' that often accompanies it. This is not a naive album by people with no vision; this is an incredibly tight album and extremely imaginative. I just wish that I sounded less dogmatic in offering all these adulations.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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This album is an absolute classic. There is nothing else on the market that sounds like it. It has Fear Factory stamped all over it. The only album to compare it to is Slayer's "Reign in Blood" - not in sound but in the same way that Slayer defined eighties thrash with that album, Fear Factory have defined nineties extreme metal. The opening title track pummels the listener with a Dino Cazares riff-from-hell and a groove that's heavy, yet strangely accessible. "Self-bias Resistor" follows and is in my opinion the best track on the album, with Burton C.Bell's hardcore bellow underscored by a melodic chorus and machine gun-like drums, courtesy of Raymond Herrera. Every song on here is brilliant, from the pounding techno-metal of "New Breed" through to the atmospheric grind of "A Therapy for Pain" - No fillers here, thank you very much! A genre-defining album, the only problem is how to top it!
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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This is my ultimate all time favourite metal album of all time, this defines Fear Factoty to be one of the best metal bands of the 90's. Everything from the chugging staccato ripping of 'Self Bias Resistor', or the popular drum-smacking of 'Replica' makes this album brilliant! But to me, the whole genius lies in the absolutely spectacular 'Zero Signal', it is 6 whole minutes of onslaught hellatic guitar riffs and mesmerising insdustrial sounds and clashes that made it into the greatest and most memorable metal song I have ever heard! Not to mention, other songs like 'Demanufacture' with its hardcore bellowing and the mosh-frenzy 'Body Hammer' which is, to be simply said, too damn cool! Buy this! Regardless of an other people might say. If you want to start liking Fear factory this is how you start.
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Fear Factory Does It Again !
This has to be one of the best Fear Factory albums , If you could own only a few of their albums this has to be one of them ! This takes Metal to new levels ! Read more
Published 3 months ago by Miss Munster
under rated band
fear factory have made a gem with this album, this album is totally under rated and so are fear factory and it is your loss if you don't give them a chance, you will not be... Read more
Published 5 months ago by yeah
a classic!pure and simple.
what can i say about this album?a classic pure and simple!just as slayers 'reign in blood' was the groundbreaker for eighties extreme metal,then this defines the nineties. Read more
Published on 7 Nov 2009 by E. M. Bostock
The best Fear Factory album ever!
This album is quite possibly one of the most original heavy metal albums of the 1990's. If you take Herrera's pounding drums, backed up with Wolbers' bass, cazares' riffmastery on... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2009 by Richard Collins
phenominal
if you were to look up industrial metal in the dictionary you should see a picture of this album as it easily the most appropriate band to fit the name as most other industrial... Read more
Published on 20 Mar 2008 by whitetrashtrixie
Groundbreaking
This took death metal to a new level and mixed it with Industrial, and the result was very inspiring, definately one of the best extreme metal albums ever. Read more
Published on 10 Nov 2007 by R. Thomas
Totally Killer
I've had this album for near enough 12 years and I listen to it at least once a month... nuff said to be honest. Read more
Published on 5 April 2007 by J. Tully
One of the finest albums of the 90s
This album has the lot.
Heaviness, Industrial, Death Metal, Techno(!) melody, momentum, atmosphere, variation,experimentation - you name it. Read more
Heaviness, Industrial, Death Metal, Techno(!) melody, momentum, atmosphere, variation,experimentation - you name it. Read more
Published on 24 Jan 2007 by longdirtyhair
Crushing modern metal (in 1995 but still today)
This album explores themes of loss of humanity to a machine-dominated world, etc, a lot of Terminator territory... Especially relevant more and more these days. Read more
Published on 31 Dec 2006 by Groovehound
Gary Numan for the Motorhead fan
There was a time before the late 90's when some bands actually combined heaviness and melody and dint get into the MTV charts every week. Read more
Published on 28 Sep 2005 by Mr. D. A. Cure
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