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Hello there, fellow headbangers! This week's album is from one of the best industrial metal bands out there, and possibly an influence to all the industrial metal scene. Here's Fear Factory's "Obsolete"!
Band: Fear Factory
Album: Obsolete
Year of release: 1998
Sub-genre: industrial metal
Rating: 5/5
Who are they? Fear Factory was formed in 1989 by guitarist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera, with the addition of vocalist Burton C. Bell not long after. Starting out as a death metal band, specially on their first two albums "Concrete" and "Soul of a new Machine", and shifting to a more industrial style on later albums. Herrera is credited as creating the "machine gun" style of drums, which became the main characteristic of Fear Factory's sound. The band released 8 studio albuns throughout it's existence, and had drawn some attention when they have split-up 2002 because of animosities between Cazares and Bell, which was followed by a dispute by who owned the rights to use the name "Fear Factory". Nowadays, the band have only Cazares and Bell as founding members, and plan on releasing a new abum by august 2014.
Album Review: Obsolete follows the theme of previous album "Demanufacture" (considered the band's best album by some), in which the clashing of humans and machines as the central theme. It's a concept album which follows the story of "Edgecrusher", a human who is incarcerated, but after escaping prison, plans on destroying the machine society which has put humanity into opression. Concept apart, the album is very well structured, and more "melodic" in comparison to it's predecessor "Demanufacture". The drums are superb, accompanying very well both the fast riffing guitars by Cazares and heavy bass guitar by Christian Olde Wolbers. Burton's vocals are sometimes agressive, with a death metal feel to them, sometimes very melodic, contributing to the anguish felt by the main character. Even though I advice to listen to the full album, to get a hang on the story behind it, the highlights are the songs "Shock", "Edgecrusher", "Securitron (Police State 2000)", "Descent" and "Ressurection". If you get the reissue of the album with the extra songs, the cover of Gary Numan's "Cars" is one of the best, too.
Where to buy? here
Stay tuned!
Band: Fear Factory
Album: Obsolete
Year of release: 1998
Sub-genre: industrial metal
Rating: 5/5
Who are they? Fear Factory was formed in 1989 by guitarist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera, with the addition of vocalist Burton C. Bell not long after. Starting out as a death metal band, specially on their first two albums "Concrete" and "Soul of a new Machine", and shifting to a more industrial style on later albums. Herrera is credited as creating the "machine gun" style of drums, which became the main characteristic of Fear Factory's sound. The band released 8 studio albuns throughout it's existence, and had drawn some attention when they have split-up 2002 because of animosities between Cazares and Bell, which was followed by a dispute by who owned the rights to use the name "Fear Factory". Nowadays, the band have only Cazares and Bell as founding members, and plan on releasing a new abum by august 2014.
Album Review: Obsolete follows the theme of previous album "Demanufacture" (considered the band's best album by some), in which the clashing of humans and machines as the central theme. It's a concept album which follows the story of "Edgecrusher", a human who is incarcerated, but after escaping prison, plans on destroying the machine society which has put humanity into opression. Concept apart, the album is very well structured, and more "melodic" in comparison to it's predecessor "Demanufacture". The drums are superb, accompanying very well both the fast riffing guitars by Cazares and heavy bass guitar by Christian Olde Wolbers. Burton's vocals are sometimes agressive, with a death metal feel to them, sometimes very melodic, contributing to the anguish felt by the main character. Even though I advice to listen to the full album, to get a hang on the story behind it, the highlights are the songs "Shock", "Edgecrusher", "Securitron (Police State 2000)", "Descent" and "Ressurection". If you get the reissue of the album with the extra songs, the cover of Gary Numan's "Cars" is one of the best, too.
Where to buy? here
Stay tuned!