FEAR FACTORY — Demanufacture (review)

FEAR FACTORY — Demanufacture album cover Album · 1995 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
With its centre of gravity in industrial metal but aspects of groove, thrash, death and alternative metal styles informing it, Fear Factory's Demanufacture sees the band display an impressive command of features of a myriad different metal genres.

At points the album sounds a little thin to my ears - in particular, the production isn't always favourable to Raymond Herrera's drums - but the variety of material from more simplistic vaguely commercial compositions to deeper and more intense industrial meditations just about manages to sell me on the album's merits. Burton Bell deserves particular props for the sheer range of vocal styles at his command, to the point where he starts to resemble industrial metal's answer to Mike Patton.

That said, the album does suffer from a rather bad case of mid-album slump, with tracks like Replica and New Breed being pretty dispensable.
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