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Fear Factory - Digimortal Audio CD

A fair review of the Fear Factory "Digimortal" 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.

Fear Factory Band: Fear Factory
Title: Digimortal
Rating:
Release Date: 2001-04-24
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: What Will Become? 2: Damaged 3: Digimortal 4: No One 5: Linchpin 6: Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies) 7: Acres of Skin 8: Back the F*** Up 9: Byte Block 10: Hurt Conveyor 11: (Memory Imprints) Never End

Good
but. . its no where near as good as Demanufacture. But I still did enjoy this album a bit different though. . . if you don't have Demanufacture be sure to get that album 1st and the special edition that comes with Demanufacture and Remanufacture comes with a bunch of extra tracks.


Last album with Dino.
Digimortal and Transgression are prime examples of this. Fear factory are a band that constantly reinvent themselves. Both albums are disliked the most out of their discography yet Digimortal and the like contain the most diversity of all FF releases. If you want another Demanufacture then check out Archetype. While recently warming up to tracks like 'Linchpin' I still have my old school favorite tracks; 'damaged' and 'Byte Block'. I saw these guys twice live in support of Obsolete and Digi. I love all FF.


An under-rated FF Gem
Break Down

ESSESTIAL FF Tracks : Digimortal, No One, Invisible Wounds (excellent mid tempo track, could have been a hit for them), Acres of Skin, BYTE BLOCKER (excellent), Hurt Conveyor

OK - Linchpin, Damaged, What Will Become?

Could Live Without - Memory Imprints. This CD gets slammed by FF fans for reasons i dont see so much. . .

AWFUL - Back The Fu*k Up

Biggest problem here is the use of keyboards in inappropriate places to make it sound accesible. It sounds forced. And the fact that it sounds too over-produced for a FF cd. Even though they all have a good sound, this is too canned for them. But the songs themselves rip.

I do think most of the fans see its greatness. Others see it as commercial, but they havent given it a fair listen. The good tracks are REALLY good. For me that is 6 of the 11 tracks, with only 2 tracks being bad. The others maybe a bit filler, but its an excellent CD in its own right.

Get the Digipak if you can for the great tracks 'Strain vs. Res. ' and 'Repentence' + 2 more. .
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very dissapointing
"Demanufacture" added alot more of the synth and reminded me of a faster Godflesh. Fear Factory's first album "A Soul for a New Machine" was a brutal deathmetal album with touchs of industrial delight. "Obsolete" slowed down but added a more industrial sound. All of these albums were great and followed well after eachother but "Digimortal" sounded like the whole band took the day off. Even the artwork was generic and mediocre. It sounded unfinished and not very layered like past releases.

It was a very generic album that seemed to follow in the trend of what everyone else was doing at that time which to me is not very experimental like others have said.

Burton's vocals almost had a rap like flow to them. His melody lines were predictable and monotone. His vocals on Invisable wounds almost reminded me of P. O. D. (eww).

Herrera was tight and did the best he could with what he was given. He was the hardest thing on this album.

You couldn't hear Christian's bass at all.

Dino's guitar work is tight but sounds tinty and repetitive.

Rhys(keyboardist and producer) lays down generic synthlines. Most of his work is very layered and complex but not in this case.

I say buy this album because this was a lot better than most other music that was put out at that time.
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i don't know why people trash this album
its pretty damn good, and its still fear factory, its not demanufacture or obsolete, but there are still enough good songs here to warrant a purchace, aside from "back the f**k up", that sucks. . just skip it. . . and if you can, get the digipack version cause the bonus songs are even better than the ones on the album.


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