Artist: Fear Factory

Year: 1997

Genre: Rock

Sub-Genre: Industrial/Metal

Notable Songs: Remanufacture (remix of Demanufacture), Machines of Hate (remix of Self Bias Resistor)

Tracks:
01 - Remanufacture (Demanufacture) (6:43)
02 - National Panel Beating (Body Hammer) (4:38)
03 - Genetic Blueprint (New Breed) (4:23)
04 - Faithless (Zero Signal) (5:25)
05 - Bionic Chronic (0:35)
06 - Cloning Technology (Replica) (6:01)
07 - Burn (Flashpoint) (5:04)
08 - T-1000 (H-K) (4:07)
09 - Machines of Hate (Self Bias Resistor) (5:50)
10 - Click here (7:19)
11 - Bound for Forgiveness (A Therapy for Pain) (6:00)
12 - Refinery (3:03)
13 - Remanufacture (edited Version) (5:26)

Enhanced: No

Cover Art/Booklet: A nice looking metallic Fear Factory Logo. The booklet it just a 2 page leaflet (as most remix CDs tend to do, so no lyrics.

Details:
    I had gotten the Mortal Kombat album and heard the Fear Factory track: Zero Signal. It just sort of struck me as a really cool song that wasn't totally metal, but had some more melodious parts. At this point I didn't really like heavy metal and this is the song that bridged my likeness of indutrial bands such as KMFDM and Gravity Kills and that of the other Fear Factory songs and bands like Pantera and Sepultura.

Anyway, I got a hold of some other Fear Factory Songs, mostly from their Demanufature CD, as well as some remixes, and finally gave into buying an album. I had heard most of the Demanufacture Songs, so when I saw Remanufacture, a total remix CD, I figured that the combination of metal and indutrial would be pretty cool. And it was. All the original Fear Factory material was there, but the addition of beats and..well..the whole remixiness of it, makes it worth listening to it over and over. Enough rambling, on to some notable songs.

Remanufacture (Demanufacture) (0:48)
    This song starts out with what sounds like cables being shaken in an elevator shaft; it's hard to explain. Then some guitars start up and build up with additional guitars and a few drum beats to a point, then the pause breifly while a simple synth sound plays, which sounds like something R2D2 would make. Then the guitars return playing faster and the vocals start. The song continues from here and keeps up the pace for the whole six and a half minutes.

Clonging Technology (Replica) (0:48)
    At first it sound like the instrumentals from Replica are thrown in and looped with some additional looped tones. But then a muted version of the vocals slowly starts to come in. At first muted so much that it sounds like someone is being forced to sing without opening their mouth. Then the song progresses, with a nice beat and the vocals from Replica. Then as it sounds like the songs it winding down (or an abrupt stop as many songs do), it starts with a whole new rythm that is full of energy and flows back into the original song.

Machines of Hate (Self Bias Resistor) (0:48)
    This is one of the songs that has the heavy gruff vocals but then quickly switches to a softer 'real singing' voice at times. The start of the song is heavy both in the vocals and instrumental, and then stops abruptly while one drum beat remains behinds a wind-like sound, and the vocals go into singing mode. This happens a couple times, and forms the song into one of the best on the album.

Bottom Line: Get it if you like heavy music and fast beats. And if you don't, get it anyway.