My first encounter with the
music of Fear Factory was through the single “Replica” from Demanufacture, however I started to
listen more intensely to their music with this album, Archetype, the first without the founding member and guitarist Dino
Cazares. My expectations were not high, but after listening to the opener “Slave
Labor”, I began to fall in love with album as a whole.
The main aspect that stood out for me is the cohesion on all of the album, in other words, once you’ve heard it several times, everything flows naturally from one song to another, like the video-single “Archetype” into “Corporate Cloning”, and the instrumental “Ascension” into the Nirvana cover that closes the album “School”.
As a band, Fear Factory went through various versions in terms of lineup, this album marked the first major one, the exit of Dino and the passing of Christian Olde Wolbers to the guitarist position. This lineup, rounded up with drummer Raymond Herrera and bassist Byron Stroud would release another album, before dissolving into another lineup that would feature vocalist Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares as the central members, regardless of the drummer and bassist in each release from Mechanize onward.
Why this review of the bands’ history? Because it surprised me, as I delved deeper into their records, how Fear Factory managed to maintain a cohesive sound in spite of its’ members, as if being in an entity in itself. As these words are being written, a new vocalist is to be announced. Also, in the booklet of Archetype, Burton C. Bell writes a paragraph stating the album as being representative of the bands’ sound, and, although I’ve avoided their latest releases, focusing more on the albums before Mechanize, I agree with his statement (and am still curious to see what paths the band follows in the future).
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