Fear Factory

gline

hahaha i love that video

Karl Hungus

Motley Crue wrote:

that clip was disgracefully violent, but hilarious

I nearly choked to death I was laughing so hard at it.

Motley Crue

Karl Hungus wrote:

I nearly choked to death I was laughing so hard at it.

I have to admit that was funny, i was amazed by what happened

Patricide

Brilliant Vid

Malice

gline wrote:

the only thing with fear factory is they can get quite boring after listening to them for awhile mainly because of the vocals... all sound the same.

I would argue that Burton's vocals are awesome. The guy can mix harsh screaming, guttural growling and surprisingly high pitched singing very well. Have a listen to these and tell me if you still thing he always sings the same way:

• The deep growling of Scumgrief off Soul of a New Machine (I had to listen to it after watching that video clip )
• The chorus and verse of Terminate off Hatefiles.
• The layered vocals of Invisible Wounds also from Hatefiles
• The rapping of Back the F*ck up from Digimortal

And that's just from the Fear Factory songs that are near each other on my Winamp playlist, I could find more

Patricide

Yea invisible wounds is prolly the best thing on digimortal, really shows off burtons clean vocals.

Malice

I meant the version from the Hatefiles album where the drums and bass are mixed far better but either version is good from the vocal point of view.

Tar.Aldarion

If I remember correctly, only their first album is good imo.

Karl Hungus

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

If I remember correctly, only their first album is good imo.

No, they've plenty of good albums, as so:

Soul Of A New Machine
Demanufacture
Obsolete
Archetype

Haven't heard transgression, so I won't comment on that, but so far Digimortal is the only I've heard that's ****.

Malice

Tar.Aldarion wrote:

If I remember correctly, only their first album is good imo.

Their first album was "Soul of a New Machine" released in 1992 I think. It's a very different sound to their later releases. I'm not sure why you think it's the best as it certainly bears little resemblance to their output once the guy from Frontline Assembly got involved. More Death Metal than Industrial Metal or Cyber Metal.

fifth

I have nearly all the albums, picked up transgression straight away although wasn't really impressed.

But fantastic band, easy to overlook them.

Malice

I'm just wondering if anyone's ever seen the DVD that Fear Factory brought out in 2001 called Digital Connectivity? I got it a few years ago and would recommend it to fans of the band. There's some great live footage on there especially of the song "Shock".

As it's a few years old it doesn't go through the saga of Dino leaving which maybe isn't such a bad thing!

Motley Crue

might try and get a hold of this sounds excellent

Karl Hungus

malice_ wrote:

I'm just wondering if anyone's ever seen the DVD that Fear Factory brought out in 2001 called Digital Connectivity? I got it a few years ago and would recommend it to fans of the band. There's some great live footage on there especially of the song "Shock".

As it's a few years old it doesn't go through the saga of Dino leaving which maybe isn't such a bad thing!

Nope, don't have it. Might check it out though.

Executive Steve

excellent band! not too many rock bands i'd be into but demanufacture blew my mind when i heard it...

LightofDarkness

Sorry, HATE this band. Passionately.

Malice

LightofDarkness wrote:

Sorry, HATE this band. Passionately.

Would you care to explain why? I can't recall any metal fans that I've spoken to about Fear Factory would have said they hated them passionately. If this was a thread about Linkin Park then I'd understand