Album Rating: 3.5

willie is there any freedom or fire type tunes on here, always wished they did more songs like that

Oh shoot. Excited for this.

Never loved this band but I also haven't ever really disliked anything they've put out.

Album Rating: 5.0

Solid review, really looking forward to this.

"Is Mandatory Sacrifice an actual song ? Or just nine minutes of Burton C. Bell hammering a metal plate in his garage while whispering insanities."

Hahahahahaha

I cannot wait for this album to be released. I just wonder if the deluxe edition will be worth it. Does anyone know if the bonus tracks "Mandatory Sacrifice" and "Enhanced Reality" are any good?

Album Rating: 3.5

ask Willie, he's the only one on this website who has listened to it so far.

Album Rating: 3.7

The promo didn't have the bonus tracks. It ended with Expiration Date.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'm sure goldenmp3 will have them

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

@Kill

Ah yeah, a cover. They've been doing covers nearly since the beginning of their career, and often good ones with that, but I'm still incapable of seeing it coming. I'd be surprised if there is something like "freedom or fire" on Genexus. That track is not one of my favourite but it's true that it has a quite unique atmosphere that they never truly approached again (Fear Campaign maybe ?).



I'm curious to hear this all thing now, I've always liked when they brought more melodic elements in their song (Zero Signal, Final Exit, Disassemble) and thought they should go further into that instead of simply doing piano intros or conclusions.

Album Rating: 3.5

Yep Mandatory Sacrifice is my favorite song from the famed Slayer album Sealed in Heaven, I'm sure KILL would agree

Album Rating: 3.7

@KILL: No Freedom or Fire type songs. To me, that song always seemed like a throwback to Soul of a New Machine, but with their new sound.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

"An argument could be even be made for a song like ‘Regenerate’ being the most accessible and catchy song in Fear Factory’s career"

This sentence made me relisten to "supernova" and I noticed something weird. In the chorus, Burton C. Bell says something like "to shine brighter than the sun and **** a glimpse of what's to come." When you think of Transgression and its position in FF's discography and of Supernova and its place in FF's repertoire of songs it gives the feeling that they seriously wanted to change the style of the band. Supernova was an attempt at going in another direction.

We all know they failed, and what's funny is that in the album booklet, the sentence is nowhere to be found in the lyrics of the song. No "glimpse of what's to come." Maybe Calvin Records already thought they were in a dead end and didn't print these hopeful lyrics as a warning.

Album Rating: 3.7

'Regenerate' is much more catchy than Supernova. The problem with with Supernova is that the chorus is so... weird, and not in a good way. If you want to hear what the Fear Factory album after Transgression was going to sound like, listen to their Arkaea album. That was originally written for Fear Factory before Christian and Raymond got kicked out.

Album Rating: 3.5

great review Willie as usual. need to check this

Meh. The good albums ended with Archetype. They have become what they sing about - a soulless machine.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

@Willie I actually quite like Supernova's chorus, I don't exactly know why I very rarely listen to the song. I think I don't much like Bell's verse voice, although I like the drums, but the piano feels a bit forced too.

I've listened to Arkaea and well... I don't think it would have made a very convincing Fear Factory record.

Even though the latter feels unfinished, I think the three of them had a good run with Archetype and Transgression and it was time to stop before truly running out of ideas (which transgression felt like: "let's try anything") and make something truly uninteresting.



Also, Archetype and Transgression finally made it on the official website of the band, like this month or last month, before that Dino and Burton wouldn't recognize them as FF records, or was it because of a legal problem ?

Album Rating: 3.5

saky bro mechanize went hard

@kill Well, Archetype (and to a degree Transgression) were the last albums I was able to distinguish easily between the songs. They were ... unique is the right word? All the following stuff sound to me like a bland copy-paste.

Album Rating: 3.5

yea i think that has a lot to do with the gay ass 8 string shit on the newer stuff which sucks ass but i'd say thats more industrialists problem than mechanizes i mean shit like christplotation (lol name) and final exit were cool shit, industrialist was just constant DNDNDN REALITY DNDNDN

Album Rating: 3.5

Transgression was such a shit album, don't know why the average it has isn't any lower.

Album Rating: 3.5

theres some cool tunes on it like moment of impact and my grave but yea some terrible ones too