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Demanufacture

Fear Factory - Demanufacture Audio CD

A fair review of the Fear Factory "Demanufacture" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all Fear Factory reviews here, or go back to the Fear Factory tabs.

Band: Fear Factory
Title: Demanufacture
Rating:

Release Date: 1995-11-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Demanufacture 2: Self Bias Resistor 3: Zero Signal 4: Replica 5: New Breed 6: Dog Day Sunrise 7: Body Hammer 8: Flashpoint 9: H-K (Hunter-Killer) 10: Piss Christ 11: Therapy for Pain

Fear Factory, one of the greatest metal bands out there.
I'm not really gonna go into the cd, it's landmark. It's very simple. It would be foolish to compare them to Corey from Slipknot, for one of the songs. . . "Zero Signal" was on the first Mortal Kombat movie. Remember that?

Yeah. Quite silly.

I am instead gonna sell the band to you.

Burton C. Bell: To me, one of the greatest vocalists in metal. He was a trained opera singer. He can growl with the best of them, sing with the best of them. Very multi-dimensional. A great lyricist, too. He captures the beauty of simplicity, I don't think I can think of another who can write like him, very simple. . . But manage to be very deep.

Dino: Very distinctive sound, you know when you're listening to him. . . However, it wasn't all that. . . Simply put he's no longer in the band and he's been replaced by the bassist Christian Olde Webber. . . and well. . . Maybe if I didn't tell you, you wouldn't know

Christian Olde Webber: Bassist, now guitarist. Every bit as good as Dino.

Raymond Herra: Let me put it to you this way. One of my favorite things to point out when people listen to this cd is that the drummer is human. The expression is priceless, because well. . . It sounds like a drum machine. He sounds synthesized. As in not human. If a drummer doesn't sound human, how good is he? That's pretty amazing if you ask me. I saw them live, and I didn't know whether to crap or go blind. One of the greatest drummers in metal.

PS: I left that concert a bigger fan than when I walked in. You know a band is good when it's like that.

Buy ANYTHING buy them ESPECIALLY this cd. If you aren't hooked by the first track, then nothing is gonna do it for you. You WILL find better songs on the cd, but I am a firm believer in starting by track 1 and going through.

One of their landmark songs is Replica, which is track 4. Pisschrist is very legendary (an even better live experience) Body Hammer has one of the grooviest riffs, and Zero Signal. . . It's a brilliant song.

Words won't do it, you simply gotta give it a spin. You'll thank me.

Fear Factory's Terminator Masterpiece.

All of these so called Nu Metal bands owe their existance to this album. Start to finish, brutal, raw, original, memorable.
Very few band have been sooooo copied and never given credit.
With this disc Fear Factory have earned thier place in music history.
A must have for any fan of the extreme.

Best album by best metal band ever
This album along with its follower, Obsolete are my all time favorite albums. I truly believe my life would be different if Fear Factory did not exist. I would say they are the soundtracks of my life because I have listened to them probably a couple thousand times each, I just can't get tired of them. If you like metal you reaaally have to have Fear Factory albums in your collection, they are truly masterpieces of metal, beautiful and full of hatred at the same time. No words can make justice to this music. .

Way better than I anticipated!
This band is so technichal and talented that the music sounds almost imopossible to actually make!!! Powerful ndustrial Metal combined with speedy death metal technicality. As a musician, I can't help but praise a band that has incredible musical talent. Total perfection!!!! This band holds an obvious influence from bands like Ministry, while never sounding like rip off artist or fakers of any kind. Ironnicly, it seems that only the most seasoned and ecclectic music listeners are up to bar on this great album. Nothing short of victory for this well respected and non a** kissing scenester band!! Real metal! Real aggression!!! Real talent!!! .

Fear Factory's Second Best!
Why? Because, although all songs rule on this one, and all of them are equally great, they are also very alike, almost like the same song repeated many times over. That's right, I may be one of the few, if not the only one to not regard this album as FF's best. Oh, don't get me wrong, "Demanufacture" had only one prevailing rival for the CD of 1995: Death's "Symbolic". Fear Factory's barely second offering remains a surprisingly mature and original effort, though it is not too hard to point out their influences: Sepultura (BIG TIME),Machine Head, Pantera, Type O'Negative, Megadeth and Life of Agony. But for all these inspirations, "Demanufacture" was and continues to be one of the most profoundly influential albums for metal music, especially the development of modern metalcore. I would say, without this CD, metalcore would not exist. Still, it is not Fear Factory's best work, although, admittedly it's really close. For me the best FF's offering is "Obsolete" (but I have yet to hear "Archetype", though). Every track on that record not only destroys, but is also entirely different from the other. But onto "Demanufacture". The very first thing that stands out is the artificial (in a good way) marriage of guitars and drums. They seem to be one and the same, especially on "Replica". Thus NO ONE has ever played metal. Sure, there have been quasi-metal industrial bands such as Front Line Assembly (which actually offers so little metal it would not be enough for even one full length). But no one dared to take seemingly mutually exclusive elements of programming and drum machines and fuse it brilliantly with aggressive deathcore. I dare say, that this album inspired even the awesome Dark Tranquility to experiment with technology on their less straight-forward death metal releases. But that is not all, because FF also manages to infuse their music with melody reminiscent of Type O'Negative or Life OF Agony wrapped around truly devastating riffing with the crushing power not so dissimilar to Machine Head's "Burn My Eyes". The last song on "Demanufacture", phenomenal "A Therapy for Pain" even sounds like TON from "Bloody Kisses" but we are too far from actual plagiarism, in fact FF NEVER plagiarized anyone to my knowledge. All contraire, many have more or less successfully copied them (that's you, Soilwork). My all time favorite song from this masterpiece is "Self Bias Resistor", an ideal revolutionary lyrical and musical statement. Any Liberal would indeed love the lyrics, and any Conservative'll hate it. But the song also calls for using your own mind and demand individual freedom from pervasive intrusion of politics and religion. Indeed, in one of the most brilliant anti-religion anthems, even if unimaginatively named "Pisschrist" ostensibly rages against Christianity and Jesus Christ. But the song is really about the type of Christ fed to us by our corrupted self-serving pastors, the kind of IMMINENT SAVIOR FROM THIS ERA that is simply unbiblical. The Man said after all: "My Kingdom is NOT of this world. " (go argue THAT in the Supreme Court!) In truth, Fear Factory may not be particularly religious, but many of their lyrics are infused with ambiguous approach to religion and spirituality. No, Fear Factory are simply SICK OF BEING LIED TO from the political or clerical sandboxes, and may in fact be against ORGANIZED religion, and since man's history provides a vast evidence that organized religion is mostly subliminal and progressive indoctrination and sometimes even oppressive brainwashing (Middle Ages) of the elites over gullible sheep, I can't blame Burton and Co. for their views. Wanna know where I draw the line: "Christ Illusion" and Slayer, but that's a whole another argument. As for "Demanufacture", the music and lyrics act as the gadfly to a society headed for Theocratic Fascism in America. This sadly has not changed in the past 12 years, but rather had gotten worse. Human beings are still worth NOTHING to their governments, and human tragedy is only defined and measured by millions not thousands of lost lives (Iraq). The most remarkable and horrifying thing about Fear Factory's message clothed in ostensible coat of Man vs. Machine concept, is that it is still relevant today, if not more. America is undergoing a Demanufacturing of reason and value of human life. So go ahead, crank up "Self Bias Resistor" and "burn away conformity". . . before they take your right to do so! .

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