Tight record, some killer choruses too. Opener and Fuel Injected Suicide Machine are gold

Album Rating: 4.0

End of line is quite emotional. I like it. It´s a worthy last album with Burton. I just hope, Dino has a good hand when finding a new voice. Please no generic singer who sound like some metalcore band like Obsydians invited the guy from Threat Signal. Man, that sucked.

Album Rating: 3.5

i know he was thinking of getting a female vocalist which i think would suit their sound fine

Fear Factory understood how an album should be sequenced from the beginning: start with an aggressive and raw metal song and end it up with a power ballad.

i know he was thinking of getting a female vocalist which i think would suit their sound fine.

Dino should find a singer with a more Operatic kind-of-voice like Till Lindemann.

Album Rating: 4.0

>till lindemann

>operatic



lmao

Dino will play guitar on Soulfly's US Tour.

Album Rating: 3.5

No Marc Rizzo?

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Funny fact:

Solos were never important in Fear Factory.

Back in 2005, Christian Olde Wolbers announced that there would be a solo on Transgression as a big thing because it was so not the kind of thing one would expect on a Fear Factory album. But Transgression was supposed to trangress you know.

The solo was to be found on the song New Promise and was laughably bad.

When writing Mechanize, Dino Cazares picked up on the idea and inserted a solo in Fear Campaign. It was cringeworthy as well.

At this point, there were good reasons to stop trying. But Dino insisted and inserted, not one but TWO solos on The Industrialist... for the worst. By solo, I here only mean a passage devoid of vocals and using a second guitar. The great title track thus goes through twenty seconds of cringe (from 3.48 to 4.08) and New Messiah's bridge into verse... I mean, there's a second guitar and it does something.

Despite all this, Genexus' single, Soul Hacker, has a solo. Thankfully, for the first time, it doesn't hurt the song. It's certainly not impressive or necessary, but it's ok.

And now. Funny conclusion to all this.

Monolith showcases a superb solo. Finally !!! A Fear Factory song contains a great solo that brings something to it.



The joke is that it wasn't written by Dino Cazares but by Max Karon. The producers, or Dino, simply gave up and asked someone else. And they did well and should do it again in the future because the song is excellent and an average solo would have been very disagreeable, when Max' bring the song back to the chorus in an epic manner.





The solos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aqLPlbwqIw

Album Rating: 4.0

what a journey

Album Rating: 3.5

"A massive nu-metal, industrial and horrorcore tour has just been announced for 2022. Static-X will headline the "Rise of the Machine" tour with support from Fear Factory, Dope, Mushroomhead and Twiztid".

Any idea who will front FF?

Album Rating: 2.5

Whoever it will be, there'll be a bunch of fans who will inevitably bitch about it

Album Rating: 3.5

Some great tunes on here, Genexus is better though.

Album Rating: 4.0

I'd die laughing if it was tommy vext

Album Rating: 3.5

Imagine Hevy Devy

Album Rating: 3.5

if devin did vocals for fear factory it would sorta rule

Album Rating: 4.0

purity jams

Album Rating: 4.0

still proud of willie for defending transgression here

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

It really sucks that Burton left because

2020/2021/2022/2023 really are times for a dystopian futuristic industrial authoritarian states concept album about transhumanity and that kind of stuff.

Album Rating: 4.5

Came back to this again today, liked it even more than the first time round so bumped my rating. Excellent album - has everything you want (well, what I want at least) from Fear Factory.