Everyone knows Demanufacture. That's honestly all I can think about when I think of Fear Factory. And it's a great demonstration of their music, as most of their songs sound like that. I don't think that's unfair.
My favourite track on this album is the title track. I love how it builds to the surprise "open your eyes" part toward the end.
The rest of the album is the same though, but of lower quality. Clicky-drums, fast monotonous guitars, shouted and clean vocals. The first track is down-right embarrassing in places. St. Anger embarrassing. The "pour this gas on me" rap/line makes me cringe every single time.
The album ends with a cover of Nirvana's School. It's a nice reminder of how metal early Nirvana were. Hugely influential. The cover is ok, but with none of the dirt of the original. I much prefer Machine Head's Negative Creep cover. Paw also do a far better cover of School (although slightly too straight). I first heard them do it on a Triple J Live At The Wireless back in 1995.
Archetype (the song) makes up the majority of this score.
4/10
