Fear Factory - Archetype (2004)

Archetype is Fear Factory's fifth album. After there breakup after Digimortal, they redeemed themselves by going back to going heavy and leaned off the experimental/nu metal stuff a tad bit. It could be there best album, it's a toss up between Demanufacture. Raymond Herrera's drumming is absolutely amazing, it's fast and technical in a way it seems to blend well with the music which is good like I feel it's a turn off if the drummer is going at a faster speed than everyone else. This album doesn't feautre longtime Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazeres, I know I'm not the only one that didn't miss the lyric "the infection has been removed, the soul of this machine has improved" from the titled track. Top through bottom it's brutal song after brutal song, good release. Songs to check out "Slave Labor", "Bite the Hand That Feeds", and "Cyberwaste".

1. "Slave Labor" – 3:53
2. "Cyberwaste" – 3:18
3. "Act of God" – 5:08
4. "Drones" – 5:02
5. "Archetype" – 4:36
6. "Corporate Cloning" – 4:24
7. "Bite the Hand That Bleeds" – 4:09
8. "Undercurrent" – 4:05
9. "Default Judgement" – 5:24
10. "Bonescraper" – 4:12
11. "Human Shields" – 5:16
12. "Ascension" – 7:05
13. "School" (Nirvana cover) – 2:38

Fear Factory - Obsolete (1998)

The third album by Fear Factory is a nice mix of industrial metal with groove metal. It would become there best selling album in Fear Factory's catalog although in my opinion Demanufacture and Archetype are the best records they've ever done. This is extremely heavy stuff. On the extra track edition Obsolete, the best Gary Numan cover of all time if that means anything. This is a concept record about how machines have taken place of man and Edgecrusher is speaker of the album who eventually is captured by the Securitons who are the machine run society. In conclusion, Edgecrusher's story ends in a confided jail cell and he feels like he has failed mankind. Songs to check out "Edgecrusher", "Cars" and "Shock".

1. "Shock" – 4:58
2. "Edgecrusher" – 3:39
3. "Smasher/Devourer" – 5:34
4. "Securitron (Police State 2000)" – 5:47
5. "Descent" – 4:36
6. "Hi-Tech Hate" – 4:33
7. "Freedom or Fire" – 5:11
8. "Obsolete" – 3:51
9. "Resurrection" – 6:35
10. "Timelessness" – 4:08
11. "Cars" ft. Gary Numan (Gary Numan cover)- 3:40 *Bonus Track Edition*