Fear Factory occurs as Los Angeles, California-based industrial metal quartet fronted by co-founder and self-soi-disant 'Dry Lung Vocal Martyr' Burton C. Bell.

Biography
Fear Factory was formed in October 31, 1990 in Los Angeles, California by guitarist Dino Cazares & drummer Raymond Herrera. Characterised by the mix of thrash metal (though they healthy extra in the vein of groove metal) guitar riffs, roaring vocals that make way for melodic cantabile, pulse camping drum beats, & right basslines, Fear Factory has been making waves within each a American death metallic and industrial metal scene since their debut album, Soul of the Future Machine (1992). A album was non successful in the mainstream.

A below season, it hired Front Line Assembly member Rhys Fulber to remix some songs to produce Fear Is the Mindkiller (1993). Around 1994, bassist Andrew Shives was forced to leave the band. inside a equivalent month, bassist Christian Olde Wolbers met the b& when vacationing in LA and agreed to assist the babies using their next recording, Demanufacture (1995), which went on to turn into the extremely successful album.

Fear Factory spent a next pack years traveling by owning such elastic when Black Sabbath, Megadeth, and Iron Maiden. the band freed a newly album composed of Demanufacture remixes by Junkie XL (nowadays known as JXL) called Remanufacture inside Might 1997, closely followed in July 1998 by their fresh album, Obsolete, cancelling an appearance at a Dynamo Open Air Festival to finish completion of the album sooner. Wasting there are no period, it hit a road sustaining Slayer and then began another tour by using Rammstein.

Advocate of the concept album, Fear Factory have explored a idea of "Man versus Machine" throughout their act. On their album, "Obsolete," lead singer Burton C. Bell explained:

A band began to build profits on the album stock and index charts. Soul of the Future Machine failed to chart anywhere. Demanufacture manufactured the top Decade of the Billboard Heatseekers stock and index charts shopping for at elastic seeking to build a title for themselves. Remanufacture processed a Billboard 200 album charts too when a Heatseekers Chart around 1997. Obsolete reached a top C on a Hoarding stock & index charts and spawned a few songs that processed the Mainstream Rock Top 40 around 1999 within "Cars" & "Descent". Around 2001, Digimortal made a top Xl on a Hoarding album stock and index charts, the top Twenty within Canada and the top L of the Australian album charts. "Linchpin" off a album once more reached a Mainstream Rock Top 40.

Below a few family differences between band members, Bell announced his exit within March 2002, and a band disbanded immediately thenceforth. Still, a b& reformed late that month minus guitar player Dino Cazares, bassist Christian Olde Wolbers took in top guitar duties and it hired Byron Stroud on bass, presently bassist of the elastic Strapping Young Lad and Zimmer's Hole. A freshly lineup's foremost album Pilot was freed within spring 2004 through new record label Liquid 8 Records based in Minnesota. The post-Archetype album, entitled, Transgression, was released on the 22nd August 2005 in the United Kingdom, and on the as a consequence day within North America.

Fear Factory is headlining the tour in the United states of america & UK starting in 28th October 2005 with supporting bands Strapping Young Lad, Darkane, Soilwork, and It Dies Today.

Categorization and Sound

Although "industrial metal" is usually applied, trueness "metal" genre of the South-Central LA depending band has been subject under moderate discussion.

Their number 1 demonstration were strongly evocative to legendary British dying metallers Napalm Death, along with Godflesh, who were non just tourmates however influences brought higher per band too. Ironically, a few of Justin Broadrick's vocals are like to victims of Burton C. Bell after he discontinued the death grunt and when he still used it, his vocals were comparable to Napalm Death's vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway. His vocal style was considered ground breaking in Soul of the Future Machine because there is no of these prior to experienced ever mixed demise grunts using melodic singing & this influenced numbers of more metal vocalizer, like Robb Flynn of Machine Head.

What is more, when more traditional death metal strong structures began to fade, they incorporated supplementary of an "aggro-groove" into their healthy, non and so different than a style of Sepultura's 1996, "Roots" - an album many long-instance fans spelt when a prevent of the band's death/thrash metal times. This freshly counsel put two elastic on the map as a nu-metal influence, eventhough both elastic were never closely the section of the genre & their healthy was however as well extreme for radio standards.

Around several ways, there was besides the super limited industrial essence that made Fear Factory an industrial metal band. When Ministry were known for making industrial textures just when significant as guitar riffs, Fear Factory were supplementary cautiously heavily metal using a few trance-prefer samples emended within to cyber-convenient production.

No matter, the band has typically been known as a "stepping stone" leading mainstream auditor to venture into less-known/more-extreme elastic, & one of couple of heavily metal elastic systematically appreciated in the virtually all polarizing & bitter of genre.

Line-up
Burton C. Bell - vocals Christian Olde Wolbers - bass (1994-2002), guitar (2004-present) Byron Stroud - bass Raymond Herrera - drums

Former members
Dino Cazares - guitar (1991-2002) Andrew Shives - bass (1991-1994) Dave Gibney-bass-[1990-1991]spoken word/Big God/Raped Souls-vocal

Discography
Albums
Concrete (unofficial release recorded in 1991, discharged in CD for the first period inside 2002) Soul of a New Machine (1992, remastered in 2004) Demanufacture (1995, reissue within 2005) Obsolete (1998) Digimortal (2001) Archetype (2004) Transgression (2005)

Compilation/Live/Remixes
Fear Is the Mindkiller (EP) (1993, remastered in 2004) The Gabber Mixes (12") (1997) Remanufacture - Cloning Technology (1997, reissue in 2005) Hatefiles (2003)

Singles
"Replica" (1995) "Dog Day Sunrise" (Head of David cover) (1996) "Burn" (1997) "Machines of Hate" (1997) "Remanufacture" (1997) "Resurrection" (1998) "Shock" (1998) "Edgecrusher" (1999) "Descent" (1999) "Cars" (Gary Numan cover) (1999) "Linchpin" (2001) "Digimortal" (2002) "Cyberwaste" (2004) "Archetype" (2004) "Bite the Hand That Bleeds" (2004) "Supernova" (2005)