Album Rating: 4.5

You are a virussss!!!!!

Album Rating: 4.5

nearly 30 minutes q&a



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InHc4Y7Yc7M

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

I've finally been able to appreciate Regenerate's optimism, and Battle for Utopia which I found was a bit of a filler has grown on me too. I'm surprised at the number of tracks on this album in which the verses never come back after the first Chorus. It's a bit unusual. Autonomous Combat System directly to a bridge, Dialectric, Protomech, Battle for Utopia, same thing, the songs never come back to the verse.

Genexus is pretty much the third longest Fear Factory album after Demanufacture and Soul of a New Machine, it's 53min long but has such a nice flow that it feels like a 35min album. I totally would have enjoyed a double album of that quality.

Also, I would quite like to hear them rerecord some song off Demanufacture with their actual sound. It wouldn't necessarily be better, but I would be very curious to hear it.

Album Rating: 4.5

It Grew very hard on me too, i frequently compare this album to demanufacture and obsolete in terms of which albums is better! I never thought i would ever be doing that with one of ff newer albums, but god. Fucking. Damm. This album is awe-anspiring, it embodies everything about near futurist culture, and the actual reality that our descendants and (us in our late lives) will be living in.



That chorus on Battle for utopia is incredible, and generally one of the most uplifting and absorbing chorus ive ever heard. FF are more empowering than any power metal, and this is a perfect soundtrack for all the grief, tantrums, and enlightenment, that man is going through on our way to completely turning into machines.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Do you all seriously think that humans can be "turned into" machines ? I mean, "replaced by" seems more adequat an expression, doesn't it ?

Isn't there an obvious problem in the idea that machines could be the next step in the [i]evolution[i] of human beings ?

Plus, everybody seem to think that machines are superior to humans. Well, they aren't. Or have the potential to be. Well, they haven't.

Album Rating: 4.5

Nuance is suitable here, are machines superior to humans? Well mechanical apparatuses for physically interacting with the environment exceed the biological navigating and interacting ones (running, swimming, lifting) in form and longevity, there is just some kinks in function that need to (and will be) refined.



As for intelligence, there is no law in nature that states intelligent systems can only be bound and embedded in biological frameworks, we are already living proof that intelligence can emerge from inanimate matter, why can't a machine do it? The most promising way we can reach GA.I (General artificial intelligence, e.g human level intelligent a.i) is through "whole brain emulation" by scanning all the synapses and general structure of the brain and simulating it (with massive computing power) on a computer as a complete human neural network*. In recent years you might have heard the president announced a project to scan the human brain and analyse it for indeed, endless medical and tech benefits, the process is very much underway.



Also again its important to bring nuance here to the words like "replace", if you woke up one day, and if you could, completely replaced your body with electronic prosthetic limbs and organs and tripled your intelligence through technological means, would you consider the old self "replaced" by this new you?









*Consider the speed of the neurone transmission in this emulated brain being "speed up" and its memory capacity expanded, what do you have then? Superintelligence...



*Also i don't really consider the future which FF paints in this album to be truly set, it could occur, we will for sure have lots of bodily augmented humans running around by 2045. But i think we will most likely be wiped out or forced into some terrible sub-optimal state by a superintlligent machine with values incompatible with human values. For more, i strongly recommend the book: Superintellgence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Be prepared to be possibly depressed after reading it though.

Album Rating: 4.0

I cry and get so much frisson during the part after the chorus in Protomech.

Album Rating: 1.5

I'm amazed people are even discussing this abomination

Album Rating: 4.5

You take that back.

Album Rating: 4.0

DoofusWainwright zero metal genres in his pie chart of course he wouldn't like transcendent metal.



LARDPLANET THAT PROFILE PIC. ARE YOU ME?

Album Rating: 4.5

Haha, what do you mean?

Album Rating: 1.5

I thought listening to all their previous albums would've been enough to qualify, silly me



This is utter unrelenting gash of the highest order

Album Rating: 4.0

Catch33 is one of if not my favorite metal albums

Album Rating: 4.5

Doofus, could you explain why you think its so god awful, and how you are not trolling?



Tranta, ahh sweet man, yeah its actually alot more popular than i though these days saw i guy with it on a shirt last week, but yeah i was like OBBSSEd with it at one point.

Album Rating: 1.5

I'm not trolling because I've rated previous albums higher. Demanufacture is their best but Mechanize had its moments. This is just awful, very pop in places without the required song writing to carry that approach off, the drumming may technically be better than on the early albums but here they have no personality, the band just sound like a spent force. The album reeks of desperation

Album Rating: 4.0

You know deep inside you like this album but pretend like you hate it.

Album Rating: 1.5

Fair enough if people think this is fit to lick Demanufacture's boots great. I personally do not.

Album Rating: 4.0

Deep, deep inside your heart

Album Rating: 1.5

Deep inside my heart I'd like to like this

That's as close as it goes lol

Album Rating: 4.5

As i see from your ratings you aren't really much of a fan of them in general, so we we will leave it at that.