There´s one mainly factor to fear when we talk about bands that are around almost since our youth, I am 21 years old so, in fact this band is older than me, that is the sound mutation. Fear Factory was formed in 1989 by Dino Cazares and Raymond Herrera, under the name Ulceration, only later the name would change to Fear the Factory and then to the short version Fear Factory. When bands like Fear Factory are part of a legacy passed from father to son that´s the obvious reason that survived time and change and found their way with their own style throughout history but not all histories stay and as histories what we expect of our legacy not always confirms and often falls into oblivion. The problem is that after some time in action people/fans expect a given performance that brings the roots and strongest parts of the band past with some new flavor capable of resisting the wearisome sound that already has been heard.
The Los Angeles, California Fear Factory never remained equal for too long, the band started as a grindcore/death metal entity releasing two demos in 1991, a single and a split in 1992 but in that same year with the construction of the full-length “Soul of a New Machine” they were already being influenced by industrial bands resulting in a unique style of industrial/death metal sound. With the 1995 full length “Demanufacture” their music suffered another change and thrash metal was incorporated into the industrial death, this album is till today one of the band´s best work, very unique, crazy heavy and mature, and gave Fear Factory a spotlight in the metal scene. Later they were already experiencing a new sound the cyber metal was born with a mixture of thrash, industrial, alternative and other influences that stuck till 2001. With “Digimortal” they entered a new wave with a groove/mallcore style but in 2004 with “Archetype” left that sound.
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I give credits to FF for being in constant mutation and for trying and experiencing new sounds and styles; it´s very difficult to maintain a solid base of listeners if in almost every new album the band evolves into something different but in the other hand the music reaches various tastes; this is a double-edge sword, you have to know how to deal with it or else you are screwed. I think that in general FF maintained, throughout its bio-mechanical journey, the good and heavy industrial element and unleashed a handful of good works with many variations. Now they present us the strong album “The Industrialist” their latest full-length, not their best I must confess but it´s nothing less than a powerful depraved mind murder machine dying for destruction.
“The Industrialist” was released June, 5th 2012 with Dino Cazares taking control of the guitars, bass and drum programming and with Burton C. Bell guttural vocals. In some way the drum programming wasn´t a bad choice, yes Gene Hoglan is a master drummer and the human presence is positive factor to give a real touch to the sound but honestly I don’t miss him in this work; Dino accomplished a really mechanical/industrial ambiance with the drums program overlaying the reality and making the theme man vs machine more obvious. He is not bad either with the bass and the guitar is heavy as ever with that unique machine-gun type of sound alternating from heavy synthetic playing to a more melodic riffing. Burton´s presence is also strong in this ten track album; he came renewed with his mighty screams and pulled out a huge singing with a powerful roar achieving the certain quantity of energy needed to perform the work. He also used his clean vocals to give more melody and to contrast the harsh vocals and to fit the melodic riffing of Dino, this turned out to be another good choice in the music “New Messiah”, one of my favorites in the whole album. It turned this mechanic experience more humanized with catchy chorus and beautiful melodic music lines. Dino and Burton took FF back in time and managed to keep faithful with the good old industrial/thrash music. I was admired how only these two guys did this really good job.
The album topics took the band to its past, to the time of “Obsolete” and “Demanufacture”. It is seen, but it´s good to be back to the basics when FF was a robotic exterminator; a travel that brought many positive aspects to the band and that proved to the infidels that FF has not forgotten what it does best. The lyrics deal with topics such as religion, violence and hypocrisy; an automaton fighting for liberty, fighting to become a human, for his place as an emotional being in the world. “The Industrialist” album begins with the title track, the perfect beginning, the most powerful music of the work with an intense and catchy riffing and a sick and fast drumming that reflects the strong points of the band. Songs such as “Recharger”, “New Messiah”, and “Disassemble” are also strong with character especially the last one, it’s the most industrial song of the album with computerized elements and an incredibly mechanical force that took me into a battlefield with humans confronting machines where shots are fired each time the pick meets a string.
On the other hand there was only one song that caught my attention by the negative, “Human Augmentation”, it adds nothing special to the work, after a few minutes listening to the music my attention was diverted, it´s only noisy ambiance music that finishes the story of the album. That said I think that this work deserved a better ending but it´s filled with good music with catchy chorus, beautiful clean and powerful harsh vocals, a good drum programming that gives life to the machine, cool and heavy machine-gun type of riffing inherent to FF, and a nice lyrical concept. Overall… 48:45 minutes of very pleasant music, not their best but one of the bests work with much to offer. This only shows that FF still has what it takes and with the “The Industrialist” the band survived time once again and continues to make history.
One melee with the words, ideas and its paradoxes... albuns that are news, the reviews at "HeavyHardMetalmania.net", always with its watermark, Pedro Ribeiro, with love for beer... sorry, music from an early age, he studied piano and singing from 7 to 14 years, then, devoted himself to the study of the guitar for 5 years. "The wisdom is found in the extremes, all extreme Metal here
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The Industrialist Track Listing:
1. The Industrialist
2. Recharger
3. New Messiah
4. God Eater
5. Depraved Mind Murder
6. Virus of Faith
7. Difference Engine
8. Dissemble
9. Religion is Flawed Because Man is Flawed
10. Human Augmentation
11. Blush Response (Difference Engine) *
12. Landfill *
* (available on deluxe digi-book only)
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Recently, Metal Injection has premiered the full-length version of FEAR FACTORY’s video for the song “The Industrialist” at THIS LOCATION also can be seen below.
FEAR FACTORY has confirmed the first of many shows expected for 2013; a home town show at Key Club in Los Angeles on January 26. Tickets are on sale now HERE. Prong, Thrown Into Exile, and Scrap Metal will open the show. It will be the band’s first performance in Los Angeles in over two years.
This week to embark on their second European trek (a 41-city endeavor with support coming from Devin Townsend), Bell with guitarist Dino Cazares, bassist Matt DeVries, and drummer Mike Heller are one well-tuned performance machine. Their set currently consists of selections from The Industrialist, 2010’s Mechanize, and classics from the FEAR FACTORY vault.
Cazares notes, “We are beyond pumped to bring this new leg of the World Industrialist tour cycle overseas with a mighty package. We have added a few classics which have not been in our set list for some time. We are ready to unleash the new Machine's of Hate unto all.”
This week to embark on their second European trek (a 41-city endeavor with support coming from Devin Townsend), Bell with guitarist Dino Cazares, bassist Matt DeVries, and drummer Mike Heller are one well-tuned performance machine. Their set currently consists of selections from The Industrialist, 2010’s Mechanize, and classics from the FEAR FACTORY vault.
Cazares notes, “We are beyond pumped to bring this new leg of the World Industrialist tour cycle overseas with a mighty package. We have added a few classics which have not been in our set list for some time. We are ready to unleash the new Machine's of Hate unto all.”
FEAR FACTORY tour dates for the remainder of 2012 are:
10/29/2012 La Laiterie - Strasbourg, France
10/30/2012 Kulturfabrik - Esch-Suralzette, Luxembourg
10/31/2012 Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany
11/02/2012 Alborg Metal Festival - Alborg, Denmark
11/04/2012 Betong - Oslo, Norway
11/06/2012 The Circus - Helsinki, Finland
11/07/2012 The Circus - Helsinki, Finland
11/08/2012 Pakkahuone - Tampere, Finland
11/11/2012 Amager Bio - Copenhagen, Denmark
11/12/2012 C Club - Berlin, Germany
11/13/2012 Essigfabrik - Koln, Germany
11/14/2012 Substage - Karlsruhe, Germany
11/16/2012 Barbey Club - Bordeaux, France
11/17/2012 Plateruena - Durango, Spain
11/18/2012 Hard Club - Porto, Portugal
11/19/2012 Paradise Garage - Lisbon, Portugal
11/20/2012 Fanatic - Seville, Spain
11/22/2012 Penelope - Madrid, Spain
11/23/2012 Rock City - Valencia, Spain
11/24/2012 Le Rockstore - Montpellier, France
11/25/2012 Magazzini Generali - Milan, Italy
11/26/2012 27 - Pratteln, Switzerland
11/28/2012 Backstage Halle/Werk Arena - Muchen, Germany
11/29/2012 Arena - Vienna, Austria
11/30/2012 Kino Siska - Ljubljana, Slovenia
12/01/2012 Boogaloo - Zagreb, Croatia
12/02/2012 A38 - Budapest, Hungary
12/04/2012 Progresja - Warsaw, Poland
12/05/2012 Eskulap - Poznan, Poland
12/06/2012 Republic Roxy - Prague, Czech
12/08/2012 Christmas Metal Festival - Geiselwind, Germany
12/09/2012 Metal Fest - Klokgebouw, Holland
12/10/2012 Bataclan - Paris, France
12/11/2012 Trix - Antwerp, Belgium
12/13/2012 Wulfrum Hall - Wolverhampton, England
12/14/2012 ABC - Glasgow, Scotland
12/15/2012 Ritz - Manchester, England
12/16/2012 Academy - Bristol, England
12/17/2012 Mo' Club - Southhampton, England
12/18/2012 London KoKo - London, England
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