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Prepare to be Terminated!

Advantages: Experience an album that changed the industrial metal scene forever
Disadvantages: The album that created Spineshank

Released by: ROADRUNNER, 1995 Genre: Industrial Metal 'Demanufacture' is the second album by the Los Angeles cyber-metal crew, Fear Factory - an album that was about to change their career forever! Album Cover Design: sporting an industrious skeleton barcode, Fear Factory mark the sleeve with a new image and a new sound to boot. A perfect choice that works well with the bands new direction and sound. Album Packaging: Digi-pack, very impressive and ...
...My first opinion of the album - has got to be "is this sound for real?". The moment the first track blasted out it made you sit up and take note of how Fear Factory changed and progressed with their own trademark sound since their debut album. My overall opinion of the album - this CD is going to change metal as we know it just like The Terminator and Blade Runner changed Science Fiction. The industrial elements incorporated with Dino Cazares' groundbreaking ...

Lehen 17.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Demanufacture - Fear Factory

Transgression, Progression?

Advantages: Heaviness, brutality, a melodic soft side
Disadvantages: A little too mellow in places, a bit too mellow

Fear Factory - Transgression I have been a fan of the so called "techno-metal" band Fear Factory for about 7 years now, and I've seen them live a couple of times. I love this band, but will their new album be as impressive as their previous albums? The version I have is the limited 2 disc edition (though I am only reviewing the album and not the DVD), and though I bought it on the day it came out, I've not had a chance to listen to the album properly. ...
...C Bell - Vocals (Vox Martyr Automata) Raymond Herrera - Drums (Systematic Battery) Christian Olde Wolbers - Guitar (Visceral Pentatonic Resonance) Byron Stroud - Bass (Intrinsic Low End Convergence) The artwork is alright, it's nice and shiny. But it's not the artwork I'm concerned about! Oh no, I bought this album for the music and that is what I'm here to review. So let's get on with it! 1. 540,000 F A nice fast zooming sound leads into heavy ...

mental_infestation 21.10.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Transgression - Fear Factory

A large victory

Advantages: Summation of hits from greatest band ever!
Disadvantages: Too much eighties stuff, not enough modern

This is the second 'greatest hits' package from my all-time favourite band, the genre-bending masters of metal, Faith No More. Firstly, i must say that i recommend the 'Who cares a lot?' greatest hits more, because it includes incredible unreleased tracks like; 'The World is yours'. But back to this; for non-believers, Faith No More were founded by bassist Billy Gould; lover of exotic 'prescription pick-me-ups' and a demon of a player, Mike Bordin; ...
...Word spread like wildfire about this exciting new band, with the sheen of keyboards offsetting glistening metallic guitar. Faith No More were signed up by Slash records for the follow-up, 'Introduce Yourself', a much more polished and cohesive album, although Chuck's voice was as punky and abrasive as ever. The album scored a massive hit with the new-improved version of 'We care a lot', and also included 'Anne's Song' and 'Introduce Yourself'. But ...

tonguelessghostofsin 08.09.2004 · Read full review
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Review of This Is It (The Best Of Faith No More) - Faith No More

Album of the year, band of the decade

Advantages: Incredibly moving swansong for my fave band ever
Disadvantages: Faith No More are No More

This was it, the final in a gripping instalment of challenging and satisfyingly diverse albums released by this incredible band of gifted musicians. Faith No More were never a band to follow trends, but they did always grow with their audience. If 'The Real Thing' was for the teens, 'Angel Dust' for the smart twenty-somethings, and 'King for a day...' for a more mature age-group again, then this is the middle-age Faith No More. That is, incredibly ...
...an ear for timeless music. A year after this, the band called it a day, and their ilk will not be heard of again. They were a unique band in that, unlike a lot of bands today who chase fame and notoriety, FNM were classically-trained musicians, death metal fans, thrash fans, pop music fans, visionaries and masters of their instruments thrown together. They didn't fit the 'friends in a band' mould, because they weren't friends. Well, maybe the founder ...

tonguelessghostofsin 12.09.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Album Of The Year - Faith No More

Heron on Crack

Advantages: Intriguingly, disconcertingly varied collection of myriad styles.
Disadvantages: Jim Martin's guitar is sadly under-used.

Faith No More's second album with Mike Patton was the first on which his strange influence became a driving force, deviating vastly in many cases from the previous huge-selling alternative metal release 'The Real Thing' as the band explored more unusual, experimental territory more in the vein of Patton's side-project Mr. Bungle. Many of the songs, particularly the singles towards the beginning of the album, stick to the highly influential funk ...
...along with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, while some of the later songs expand on the hip hop influence of 'The Real Thing,' making this album largely, and sadly responsible for the rap metal boom of the late nineties, which now thankfully seems to have slumped again. I can't imagine any other situation where I would be recommending an album favoured by Fieldy, the maize-field-haired gangsta bassist from Korn, but the impact of 'Angel Dust' ...

Frankingsteins 15.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Angel Dust - Faith No More