Audio CD review:
Fear Factory - Digimortal

Fear Factory - Digimortal

Band: Fear Factory Title: Digimortal Rating: Release Date: 2001-08-20 Media: Audio CD Tracks:

New parts for an all conquering machine The two BIG albums "Demanufacture and Obsolete" were very much heavy guitar filled behemoths about the problems of society, yet here the band go quite a bit more towards the techno side that was witnessed on "Remanufacture". Being a mad fan of fear factory I found this album to be an interesting deviation to what they commonly create. I was made aware of this new sound immediately on the opening track what will become. The track possessing alot of electronic scratches. The band seemed to have "gone creative" so to speak. After the successes of Obsolete and Demanufacture they could have easily made a similar and been successful, yet the proressive is a very interesting new sound. In keeping with the two albums obsolete and demanufacture they have a story beneath the songs on the album. This one rather going for the jugular about life now or potentially in the future it shows how man and machine combine together (hence digi. . . Mortal) and tries to deal with concepts like whether computer programming have more power than memories and morality. An interesting idea and while the album doesn't come over as better than the others it is on the whole a worthy album of a listen and definitely not what I'd have expected. I do recommend the album, but make sure at some point you pick up Obsolete and Demanufacture, as this is ultimately an evolution to the sound of these albums. You can see a complete list of all Fear Factory discography, or go back to the Fear Factory tabs