The soul of the new machine that we have come to know as Fear Factory has opened up their digital book of chaos with the release of Digimortal. The follow-up to the gold certified Obsolete, Digimortal continues Fear Factory’s conceptual saga of man against machine with razor sharp percussions layered under an aural battery of guitar work from Dino Cazares. The album’s opening track, “What Will Become”, has frontman Burton C. Bell wavering between his ever-improving singing voice and the lesser-used growl that was a staple in his early years. “Linchpin”, the first single/video from Digimortal, is a crash course in groove-heavy industrial metal the way it should be done. After ten years of teaching lessons to anyone who’d pay attention to detail, Fear Factory’s riffage and brutality have become the standard for industrial metal outfits.
+ rick hinkson
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