25 Things About FEAR FACTORY's Demanufacture You May Not Know | Metal Injection | Metal Injection
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Fear Factory's 'Demanufacture' LP turns 25 this weekend, and in celebration Frank counts down 25 facts about the album you may not know. From lawsuits, re-written songs, mixing changes, pioneering change in the metal genre and so much more, we take a look at what makes this album a snap shot in time!
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What's your favorite track off the album?
Hard to choose on such a classic, but I would say the opening track. Thanks for making me feel old by the way, I bought this CD in July of 95!
H.K (hunter killer) 💀🤘
Hunter Killer or Pisschrist.
Self Bias Resistor
Replica! First song I heard of them when I was like 9 or 10. Still listening that shit in 2020.
Fear Factory bleeding into Bon Jovi's drum mics could only be an improvement.
Of COURSE they had to knock on FF's studio door to tell them to turn the scary music down lol
Metal Hammer gave the best description of this masterpiece album: "So far ahead of its time that bands are still failing to rip it off convincingly today, Fear Factory's ultra-precise extreme metal attack and pioneering harsh-to-clean vocal approach dragged metal into the future."
“What is your favourite track off Demanufacture?” Me: Yes.
That's the only right answer!
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I concur!
Also yes
Yes
Zero Signal. The song that got me not only into metal but just music in general.
Legitimately one of my favourite albums ever. I heard ‘Replica’ and ‘Self Bias Resistor’ as a young teen and was hooked immediately. Can’t believe it’s 25 years already.
Yeah man it was the same with me listened too that album non stop in the 90s its crazy too think it was that long ago
Replica certified me as a Bonafide Metalhead
Rhys has worked on Seven FF albums and three of their ep's. He also worked with Die Krupps, Econoline Crush, Kanga, Megadeth, Paradise Lose, Skinny Puppy, and The Tea Party. Dude's a machine!
Die Krupps frontline assembly and skinny puppy are my favorites
His work on Paradise Lost's Symbol of Life was amazing
A very important album to me. My girlfriend got me into them our freshman year of high school and I’ll never forget those incredible feelings.
Jacob Clark I have the same story, for me it was 95-96. She also got me into Machine Head-Burn my eyes!
you married her, right?
higler Actually it’s about time and I plan on it next year. Just been waiting on the right moment.
@@JakeClark-xw4xz hell yeah man! Go get it.
Press Man For me it was 2015, we’re 20 now but we’ve been inseparable since then. She got me into FF and Type O Negative and I got her more into Alice In Chains.
I got into Fear Factory like many others because of Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Zero Signal is a great track but my favorite FF album is still "Obsolete" I had that album on repeat hundred of times, never had to skip a track because they were all awesome.
I got to say I agree with you 100%. Obsolete gets crapped on a lot because of the whole nu-metal tinge and the Cars cover but IMO Obsolete deserves EVERY bit the amount of praise that Demanufacture receives!
'There is a fear factory in this division'
As soon as I hear the first note of Shock, I'm already buzzing with adrenaline.
Couldn't agree with you more. MK soundtrack was excellent and my two favourite tracks were Zero Signal (My favourite FF song still to this day) and The Invisible by Geezir. Obsolete is FF's G.O.A.T. record.
But my brother, in the other thread you said Archetype was next best... SMH
My brother and I used to play the soundtrack and reenact the fight scenes in the living room.
King For A Day, Fool For A Lifetime and Demanufacture were recorded right next to each other!? Awesome! Two of my favourite albums of all time...
I remember taking the album home, getting baked and putting on headphones. It blew my mind into something else, an entire universe of precise metal perfection.
I did the same thing plenty of times with that album when it came put lol
@music is timeless I'm sad for you about you feeling sad 😪
@music is timeless STRAIGHTEDGE BRUH XXXXXXXXxXXXxXxXxX
Fear Factory are responsible for so much of what modern metal sounds like. Tightly locking kick rhythms with guitar riffs wasn't really a thing until Fear Factory did it. Pantera had some moments of the kick following guitars, but not like Fear Factory. Listen to any recent metal release, the kick follows the guitar exactly. Djent was basically a modern version of what FF was doing back in the day. Fear Factory were trail blazers.
Listen to Meshuggah pre-1995, they already had their interlocked kick/guitar patterns going strong.
Ze Bubba Exactly! Hugga was doing this before FF.
Absolutely. And that's not even mentioning the melodic vocals. Revisionists (who probably aren't even old enough to remember back then) will try diminish FF's influence & give credit to other bands but the fact remains this album had a considerable commercial impact when it came out (aided by the Mortal Kombat soundtrack) therefore had the farthest reaching influence. Nobody said FF single handedly invented the wheel. Other bands dabbling in similar ideas were nowhere near as popular. Meshuggah's first album only came out in 1995. Was it good? Yes. Did it influence people? Those that heard it, yes. But it didn't make much of a splash at the time. They only started gaining a sizeable fanbase in the early 2000s. Then their early work started getting retroactive appreciation from more people. This is not a popularity contest by the way, I'm merely stating how actual influence works.
@@ZeBubba Meshuggah pre-1995 was alot thrashier and sounded more like AJFA-era Metallica (also the extent of interlocked kick/guitar patterns was essentially the same as Metallica's by that point, yet no one claims that Metallica started djent). Either way Fear Factory's debut album was in 1992 and even though it was mostly death metal it had more of that style of riffing even then.
Meshuggah really only started picking that up properly in Destroy Erase Improve, and still not to the extent that FF did in Demanufacture. And I remember reading somewhere that FF was a big influence on Meshuggah early on, that might have contributed to it.
Primus was doing this in 80s ...
5:03 This movie presented me Fear Factory! From that day, I got so hooked up by the band!! Zero Signal is Mortal Kombat and Mortal kombat is Fear Factory!!
Mortal Kombat is undoubtedly the sole conduit for my introduction to Fear Factory. I'm sure many fans can say that!
Same here!
When I heard Zero Signal for the first time in the Mortal Kombat movie, I knew I had to find out who did that and what album it was from. And now a quarter of a century later Demanufacture still holds up!
Legendary album of FF forever!💯
Definitely my favorite album from Fear Factory. It still holds up to this day.
Front to back every couple of months since it came out, huge part of my metal roots
The album that Made me Fall in love with Extreme MUSIC!!!...Nostalgia!!
Genexus is fucking epic too, I might even prefer it to this
Ironic you put this up as I’ve been listening to them non-stop for the last week. Man were they ahead of their time. LOTS of current metal acts today wouldn’t be who they are without Fear Factory \M/
That's not what irony is, at all.
Same for me for the last two, been in love with this band my whole life as my dad was always into them, rock on \M/
Hey Alanis, that's coincidental, not ironic.
Test Drive 5 on Playstation 1 introduced me to Fear Factory and it changed my life forever, I was 8 years olld
Thank you for posting this
Dude me too! Their Cars cover was too good and made me fall in love with industrial metal!
I was like 13 i remember.
same here. I was 14 and that was my favorite racing game mainly because of that
@@ExtremeNPutridMusic cars was td6 though right? td5 was replica, and the music video was hidden on the disc!
@@banredassaultsuvs361 Yes it was, I never played Test Drive 5 so I couldn't tell you, Test Drive 6 was my cars themed game allongside Twisted Metal and Vigilante8.
I remember when the video for "replica" was on the video game Test Drive 5 as a unlockable, i watched the video so many times lol.
The Cars video was on a test drive demo too
I hope someone's able to discover where you can actually hear Fear Factorys sound in Bon Jovi's Album.
I bought this album in Oxford in 1996, when I was 17, I still have the cassette but it's seen better days!
This album blew my fucking mind, I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal at the time and this came along with an atmosphere no-one had ever made.
This album still gives me chills, to this day.
TO THIS DAY!!
Well that ended on a sad note. I'd love to see the classic lineup back 😭
Such a huge album for me. A golden age the early/mid 90’s.
Demanufacture is one of those albums where every song is mint! I met Burton at Nottingham Rock City back in 2001, had a beer with him and chatted about the upcoming gig I was going to! Nice bloke!
Went out and bought this album right after I heard "Self Bias Resistor" for the first time. A real shame the classic lineup will never perform again.
One of the best bands ever I never get tired of listening to them.
Should have at least mentioned that FF was hugely popularized [outside the US] by offering an instrumental version of Demanufacture as "Carmageddon" PC game's OST, pretty much the same way NIN got lots of attention after being featured in Quake. Not until 5 years later i was able to see FF records sold in a music shop at all, and to this days for almost everyone i know FF remains "that band that did Carmageddon music".
As for "clean vocals" claim at 7:25, well, they should've been listening to metal outside Bay Area stuff. Bands like Paradise Lost, Samael, Tristania, even Emperor (and the whole lot of gothic, sympho and pagan metal bands) have already started doing that by the time FF did it on Obsolete.
Cheers man, finally a good video thats facts only, straight on. Zero signal is my favorite metal song ov all time I must say
A Therapy for Pain is hands down my favorite FF song and one of my favorite songs of all time! It gives this strange feeling of sadness and despair, while simultaneously being peaceful and calming, as if there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and everything is going to be okay. Perfect song to play on your death bed!
One of my favorite metal albums ever. Everyone should should check out the remix album Remanufacture also
i regularly jam this album. i havent used my old Walkman in about 20 years, but this cassette tape is still in there!
Fear Factory have had a personal influence on my music writing growing up! Always have loved them! \m/
Demanufacture is the first metal album I ever got. I was probably in 6th grade. And it was all thanks to the mortal Kombat soundtrack
wow 25 years ,still a great album,love fear factory.
FACT: ONE THE GREATEST BANDS / ALBUMS OF THE 90's!!!!!!!!!!
Favorite record. Favorite band. Zero Signal has been, and will always be, my favorite song. Period.
I’ll never forget hearing Fear Factory for the first time. I was walking up the steps at Red Rocks in probably ‘94 or ‘95 for my first show ever (Megadeth with Korn, Flotsam & Jetsam, and FF opening) when I heard them launch into Self Bias Resistor. Some of most punishing shit I’d ever heard with the guitars and kick drums pounding, and then all of a sudden I hear Burton hit the clean chorus - I was just blown away, I had never heard anything even remotely close to it. Been a fan ever since 🤘
Such a hugely underrated band that deserves way more credit than they seem to get. I guess in some ways FF is still the semi-underground band that only some of us know about. Hope they can get past the legal shit soon and put out some more albums
FEAR FACTORY is one of THE best 90's modern metal bands....unique and recognisable in every way.....legends!!!!
Saw them on the 20th anniversary tour. Caught Dino's Demanufacture pick he threw to the crowd (from his wheelchair!) & saw the whole band departing outside the venue later, even got to chat to Burton. Unforgettable night :)
Wheelchair?
@@JTPlayz0121 Sorry, it was actually just a chair! For some shows in 2016, Dino had torn a muscle in his foot which forced him to play sitting down the entire performance.
Cant believe its been 25 years! Wow. Body Hammer is my fave with Self Bias Resistor a close 2nd
demanufacture is probably my all time favorite album. combined with the best remix album ever remanufacture , those songs and that sound will never be topped! was lucky enough to catch them many times over the years, but the Demanufacture tour they did recently was the best show i've ever witnessed.
Albums don’t get much better than this! 🖤
Terence Butler's band was called G/Z/R when Burt joined, it was Geezer after he left.
One of the best albums ever
What a crazy important ahead of its time album Demanufacture is.
1. Body Hammer
2. H-K (Hunter Killer)
3. Zero Signal
4. Flashpoint
5. Replica
One of the few bands i listened to in highschool that i don't look back on with shame.
I found them FOR REAL when i bought Digimortal 01..But My first discovery was when I heard Obsolete.. Mustve been like 14-16 sick man:)
fkn staple band in my library!
Reely and Fulber had a great influence in the FF sound at the time. Front Line Assembly was peaking with their best output in the early to mid 90s, and their fingerprints are all over it. For anyone who like the industrial metal crossover sound of FF at the time, I highly recommend the FLA album Millenium (1994) which samples Pantera riffs and has a heavy metal vibe to a lot of it. Some of their best work IMO.
Fear Factory is one of my favorite bands and Demanufacture is my favorite album of theirs. Piss Christ is my favorite song. Sure going to miss Burton C Bell. Maybe they can work things out.
And one other thing is that they were hanging out in Albany NY all the time while writing this album as well as playing shows with my old band Stigmata- there were even a few times Dino and Christian came to my house and hung in my basement for band practice - yup the early 90’s baby - ask Dino he will verify it all!!
Love this album. Self Bias Resistor is my favorite track.
This album is what inspired me to play guitar
I think the most gnarly badass thing of this whole story is how Dr. KNow of Bad Brains led to Dino’s sic guitar tone. How universal all hard rock, metal, punk all unified. The hardcore reggae pioneers contributed to the industrial metal madness of Fear Factory. 2 of my favorite bands. F’n love it!!!! 🤘🎸🤘
I either did not know or outright forgot that Burton had a Current 93 tattoo. WOW.
1st album I ever owned on CD. My sister brought it for me Xmas 96. I was stoked!
I heard Obsolete first. Didn’t get into the other stuff as much.. love Obsolete
Me too. That album gripped me.
Obsolete is way better
It's funny you should post this because I've been on a bit of a Fear Factory kick lately! As far as picking a favorite, that's damn near impossible! I will say that Demanufacture (opening track) is pretty awesome and I've always liked the opening riff of Body Hammer (track 7). It's all good stuff though!
I'm a fan of Fear Factory, but let's be real here, Burton was a studio vocalist. Even when Demanufacture debuted, his live performances were never anywhere close to how he'd get mixed on the albums.
Demanufacture for me is an incredible album at a time when I was listening to Pantera a lot. I listened to zero Signal on a Total Guitar CD and it blew my mind!!! went out, bought the album and was just utterly shocked at the tightness and brutality of the music. And I LOVED it!! Any band that can cover Gary Numan's Cars gets my vote for sure!! (Yes I know that's on Obsolete.......)
Saw the original demanufacture tour in Ireland in the 90s… in a little hall the sfx about 800 people there. It was incredible the drums live ray was unbelievable
Dino basically destroyed the band over artistic control and member pay. Burton just wanted a fair pay scale. He left because of this. Demanufacture changed everything about how I wrote and played guitar. It was a giant moment of clarity.
I love this band. And I love what Burton and Dino have done on the last 3 albums. I wish they could put the lawsuits to rest so that everyone in the band can move on and Burton and Dino can get back to delivering amazing Fear Factory tracks.
I already had _Soul Of...,_ but _Demanufacture_ brought it to a *whole* new level!
I saw fear fear factory March 1994 at the limelight in NYC and they played the song Demanufacture.
One more interesting fact is that Christian never actually played on demanufacture, dino played the bass parts as Christian didn’t have time to learn the parts before they were due to record
I love this band so much.
YES, love this album.
Such an insane string of straight fucking bangers one after the other
“Zero Signal” is a violent killer track
Wow....those dynamo shows, I wish I coulda been there
amazing album pisschrist is my favorite
same, so glad I got to hear it live once
I was at Fear Factory show shortly after the release of Mechanize. In between songs Burton addressed the crowd jokingly inquiring what song they should play next. Someone yelled "PissChrist" so loudly that Dino heard it and he played the first 4 bars then stopped. That's the closest I ever got to hearing it live! 😒
First song I heard from FF was Zero Signal......my jaw dropped and I was stunned by what I was hearing. A truly unique band in a sea of sameness.
Replica!!! Because it’s awesome but also it tells the same story as American Me(eme) one of my all time favorite movies
Favorite track has to be replica!! 🤘🤘
Demanufacture is perfection - I always try to play along to Self Bias Resistor when I pick up the guitar, it really is a right hand workout. Dino is THE man. Fear Factory is something special.
"...never been an average band" - Got that right! ...Fear Factory has always been one of my favorite bands. I've been following them since I first heard 'Martyr' on a compilation album called 'At Death's Door 2'. I've lost count how many times I've seen them live. They don't get near enough credit for laying the groundwork for a lot of today's music, especially mixing melodic/clean vocals with growling/yelling. I really hope they find a way to work out their differences and get back to kicking ass for all of us fans.
Удалось побывать на их концерте, в Москве. В клубе B1 maximum. В июне 2010 года.
thanks man, great vid. album such a staple of my youth. Now I gotta axe a quiestion... why all the hate for remanufacture?? I always dug it and just respected them even more for going to even more unknown territory.... cheers yall
I never knew that about Ross Robinson and Concerto, despite being a FF fan for 24 years...
I SO miss them...
I found out about demanufacture thank to a friend that recognized the instrumental versions from the Carmageddon demo I was showing him on my PC. Only years later I listened to most tracks on music services. In Dec 2015 I mised the 20th anniversary tour in Dublin as I was broken that month, I should have really borrowed some money from friends, I still regret it. Last week I picked up obsolete for 1.50€ and loved it too.
Not to take away from FF, but J. Broadrick had implemented that singing style (switching between melodic and growling) in Godflesh well before
Where is the interview with Burton @ 6:20 taken from?
Tough call. I love A Therapy For Pain. Self-Bias Resistor is a very close second.
I'd already had soul of a new machine.. And I'd give a lesser used body parts for it to have a more modern sound (love the redo of Martyr BTW).
But I bought the Dynamo compilation album that came out weeks before Demanufacture did purely because it had Self Bias Resistor on it and I just couldn't stop listening to it..
Their new sound was superb..
Oh and for them to blow Ozzy Osborne away in 1995 when they supported him was nothing short of mind blowing.
We need a Fear Factory live album!
No you don’t. I’ve seen FF live many times and I can say without a doubt - and this coming from a truly die hard fan here - Burton is terrible live. He cannot control his roars and he blows his vocals out all the time after about a half hour singing.
He has a good voice but he NEEDS lessons. When that quote appeared “I became less self-conscious as a singer” yeah, no shit Sherlock!
Demanufacture was introduced to me when I was 10 years old in 1996 from my older cousin. Holy shit, that’s what got me into FF, And into the Metal world. Pisschrist is totally my favorite track! They are the reason why I’m into bands who switch up their vocals between cleans and uncleans.🤘🏽
Seeing them play the whole thing live in July 2013 with Matt DeVries on bass was phenomenal. (Edited from 2012 to 2013)
I’m kicking myself for missing that tour, I was surprised they played such a small venue but that would have made for a badass show being up close
Tantojutsuninpo actually I just realised the gig that I saw was July 2013, Melbourne Australia.
Who's from autumn 2020? Burton's left the band 😭😭😭
I used to strip to this album 🤟
Loved the farting vids, Cheyenne!
Do you have any video links for this? Thnaks
Why ruin a great album???
''Come here!''
- Scorpion
@Rigor Von Danzug um easily
DEMANUFACTURE and REPLICA is My Favorite Track Song in DEMANUFACTURE Album 👍🏻
After various Metallica albums, Demanufacture was what got me into metal. But now when I listen to the album I hear it played by a symphonic orchestra.
Anyone got a link to that performance shown at the very end on a TV show or something?
Second album concept. Soul of a New Machine is the first; people just tend to ignore it.
Zero Signal 🤘
I remember Self Bias Resistor was in commercial for SONY tv in 90's!
90's were fucking great! 🤘
i like "Soul of a new Machine" more than "Demanufacture" album but i love all FF works and i listen to them almost everyday so.
I love soul of a new machine. That album never gets talked about
for sure. thanks!
i mean soanm is awsome, but better than deman? no way brother
@@banredassaultsuvs361 yep. in my opinion. saw them live in 1992. then 1995 at the dynamo festival.
Wish a reunion would take place. Look what happened to Pantera