Post by Demonic-dave on Jul 8, 2012 14:43:42 GMT -5
Sir, There's a glitch in the matrix!
Fear Factory are back with their latest release “The Industrialist”. Hailing from Los Angeles fear factory have had a long career spanning seven full albums, EP's and even a few remix albums thrown in for good measure.
This latest offering from these pioneers of industrial metal is a concept album very much like their 1998’s “obsolete” while I cannot say in what form of concept this falls under, I can say that it seems to be in the same vein as “obsolete” where it tells a story detailing the struggle between man and machine aka “terminator”.
I'll Be Back!
What to say about this album? After some digging around on the old internet I discovered that this album was released without an organic drummer due to the band going through some difficulties but this doesn’t distract from the sheer professionalism of this album. If anything the programmed drum loops adds a more clinical approach, which would fit in line with the whole point of the album. Although I think that’s more of a coincidence rather than planned.
Burtons vocals are as powerful as always coupled with with the absolute presision of dino’s guitar playing and of course the bass lines are there which compliment the tunes and they havent missed out on the low frequency bass drops that are well known in “obsolete”. I do think that even though the drums are programmed in i'd rather hear someone bashing their kit but thats just my own personal preference.
I do sometimes wonder if theres any point in putting ambient instrumental songs at the end of the album but as fear factory have done this on practically every single album they've produced its to be expected really.
Overall this is an album you'll be happy with but I do get the feeling that its a bit average once you've listened to it a few times so my rating is going to be:
6/10
Craig Millward
Fear Factory are back with their latest release “The Industrialist”. Hailing from Los Angeles fear factory have had a long career spanning seven full albums, EP's and even a few remix albums thrown in for good measure.
This latest offering from these pioneers of industrial metal is a concept album very much like their 1998’s “obsolete” while I cannot say in what form of concept this falls under, I can say that it seems to be in the same vein as “obsolete” where it tells a story detailing the struggle between man and machine aka “terminator”.
I'll Be Back!
What to say about this album? After some digging around on the old internet I discovered that this album was released without an organic drummer due to the band going through some difficulties but this doesn’t distract from the sheer professionalism of this album. If anything the programmed drum loops adds a more clinical approach, which would fit in line with the whole point of the album. Although I think that’s more of a coincidence rather than planned.
Burtons vocals are as powerful as always coupled with with the absolute presision of dino’s guitar playing and of course the bass lines are there which compliment the tunes and they havent missed out on the low frequency bass drops that are well known in “obsolete”. I do think that even though the drums are programmed in i'd rather hear someone bashing their kit but thats just my own personal preference.
I do sometimes wonder if theres any point in putting ambient instrumental songs at the end of the album but as fear factory have done this on practically every single album they've produced its to be expected really.
Overall this is an album you'll be happy with but I do get the feeling that its a bit average once you've listened to it a few times so my rating is going to be:
6/10
Craig Millward