FEAR FACTORY | REPLICA | Is Metal Just All About Rage? - Scottish Singer Reacts 

This is the band that created the mixed heavy/clean vocal trend. They changed metal forever.

My favorite band. It's a shame they're not as big as they deserve to be.

In many ways, FF were ahead of their time. Devin Townsend said there'd be no SYL without FF. That ultra-fast, machine gun kick drum attack is commonplace now, but it was virtually unheard of in 1995. Just for starters. As far as your other point is concerned, metal is about just about everything, rage, hate and rebellion no question, but also beauty, ambience, love, empathy etc etc. It reflects all of the good and bad about the world today....

You are wonderful 😁 thanks for bringing smiles to my day

Burton C. Bell was also the vocalist on G//Z/R. A bsnd made by Black Sabbath bass player Geezer Butler. Their Plastic Planet are a phenomenal album. Songs like Giving Up The Ghost, Seance Fiction and Catatonic Eclipse

The last time I saw Burton live his voice was pretty shot. On the cleans he tended to croak rather than sing melodically. I have a feeling he didn't growl in the way modern more brutal singers do. So I think you are correct about his throat being closed.

Fear Factory had a song in the first Mortal Kombat movie . It was during the fight scene between Johnny Cage and Scorpion.

Fear Factory & Testament were my gateway "drug" into metal music. Fear Factory was on the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, and just fell in love with the sound. and around that same time a friend introduced me to Testament. after that i was hooked to metal. makes me feel so old looking back that far when i was in middle school discovering this music

All these years later, this chorus still gives me chills. Another great one from them is Resurrection if you get a chance. Burton's voice is definitely more mature in that one, and his quick switches between vocal styles are pretty cool.

Fear factory's digimortal and archetype albums are absolute gems. These guys were way ahead of their time and influential. Please Please please continue with the FF rabbit hoke. Pretty please with cherries and stuff 😊😊

Fair play, your training has done you well. Really impressed with howyou dial in on the sub-culture of metal. One band that often gets overlooked on this period of Fear Factory is the Burmingham band, Godflesh. The clean and angry vocals of Godflesh where a big inspiration on Burton and others like Nick Cave and a lesser known band called Loop. Cheers for another great video.

Rhys Fulber was a great producer. I loved how they leaned into the whole distopian mechanised human future vision thing. This one however is more like their 'pop' single haha.

They have a new singer now

This album (Demanufacture) is among some of the best from the 1990s metal.

FF is criminally underrated, they were the pioneers of the style and the shot of mixing vocals so and that chunky machine gun guitar/drums sounds . Dino is a mastermind and Burton was Unique....now with Milo (new singer) they sound soooo f**** goid live. Try please the track "Resurrection"' , a masterpiece with a Burton in his best moment. Thanx 4 the reaction!!!!

One of my favorite bands ever... the obsolete album is fire

Do Self Biased Resistor, Demanufacture, Obsolete

Your witnessing one of the greatest metal bands ever

If you want to hear Burton C Bell singing clean, check out the band "Ascension of the Watchers" (in particular "Ghost Heart", and "The End is always the Beginning", Or "Residual Presence" he can sing clean. For a Fear Factory thats Recent check out "Monolith" from the Agression Continuum album. Fear Factory is one of those bands that is/was a gateway band to the heavier deathy metal. Thank you for taking the time to them out!

I love the fact that you don't stop the song every 10 seconds like some reactors. You give the song a chance to "live". Thank you.

Was lucky enough to see them on the Obsolete tour in a smaller club.🤘🏻

1995. You should check out Ressurection by Fear Factory

As a singer in this genre that has written songs with the heavy and clean dynamics its incredibly hard to pull off live. FF is my favorite band my band was heavily influenced by them and let me tell before i started doing it myself i used to get pissed when burton voice would crack live on the clean parts without realizing how incredibly diffcult that is to do live because your voice is going from one extreme to another. It very much humbled me because in the studio its a lot easier because you can track the clean parts first then do all the heavy and aggressive vocals after when you play live you don't have that same luxury. I was very lucky when we played songs on our set with those same type of transitions i didn't croak live because its nit easy at all. I can tell you if you want to hear his best live performances where he was in key on the clean parts there peak years were in mid late 90's up until the early 2000s is where he started to get more shacky live more specifically 01.

I got to see them live a couple weeks back, I heard this song and was generally impressed. Not my usual listening but I appreciated seeing them live.

You gotta give Cattle Decapitation a chance, I know you glossed over them in one of your streams but I bet you would like them if you started out with the right song like Solstalgia.

Your new video and audio quality are fantastic!

what the fuck is that snare roll BRRRRAPP BAP BRAP BRRRRAP BU BUH BAP

Not all metal's about rage. Some of it's about mutant dinosaurs from outer space! Though, come to think of it, some of those dinosaurs seem pretty grumpy...

the most amazing thing about Fear Factory is that Burton c Bell isnt Devin Townsend

For something 'ragey', I can recommend Suicidal Tendencies 'You Can't Bring Me Down'. Although Mike's not necessarily the most melodious singer, he makes up for it with intensity. And tempo.

I now want a Fear Factory cover done by you where you're replacing the lyrics with the "RAWR RAWR RAWRRAWR"

Fear Factory are still going although they have a different singer and just the one original member left. This song is from 1995 and they've all spent the years inbetween, leaving, rejoining and suing each other. I saw the new line up last November in Manchester and they sounded great. Zero Signal is my favourite song of theirs.

This song is awesome!!! Always been a favorite. The “LIVE” Big day out 04’ version is awesome!

By all accounts Dino, the main guitarist, is a lovely guy and he's always given me that impression. Never been a big fan of FF, though they were pretty electric live. Except the vocals - Burton was ROUGH that gig (i think in 2012). Not sure if it is a trend or a one off, but he was very flat whenever he was doing the melodic stuff. Didnt help the other two vocalists that night were Dan from Tesseract and Devin. Edit: i just checked and it was actually during the time Dan wasnt in Tesseract, so it was one of the two vocalists during that period that performed then.

Epica do a great cover of this :)

Fear factory tell a story through out there albums about machines taking over humanity, so in a lot of the songs it is that narrative they are sticking with and without that context or having listened to there whole catalogue it can sound like it is just about rage. Trust me they tell an amazing story (no doubt laced with there own feelings being sprinkled through out). So next FF you react to now knowing this you will see a different and much deeper story about machines taking over humanity and the resistance fighting them etc. Glad you enjoyed this song and hope to see you react to more

Yoo, reaction to Fear Factory? okay. Now i like this channel. The lyrics of this band are really into essentialism , Please give it a listen to the album "Digimortal" and u will see why. And love the reaction and the feedback of the song and i love your accent i love Scottish accent sounds to cool!

I saw them last week. As you know Burton is no more with the band since 2015 or 2016. The new singer is an italian dude and he was sounding good live. In general the sound was really awesome and the performance impeccable. Fun fact, I saw them in 1995 opening for Iron Maiden. I hated them back then. But when I heard the album Obsolete (1999) I was blown away. Their best album in my opinion. If you return to them you should do Headchrusher or, even better, Shock that is their opener and a it's like being hit with a shovel right in tha bucket. The vocals are also super interesting and textured.

Oh wow another high school flashback… I had Fear Factory on cassette tape with blown out car speakers 😂 💃❤️

I went through a time when I had a couple Fear Factory albums on CD (what a throwback) and was into them. They always had this type of metal going on, adding industrial + electronic elements to their arrangements. I also had a buddy at my last job who liked to listen to some of my metal discs on the clock. I would loan him artists like Dimmu Borgir + All Shall Perish, and he would hand them back as too dark or hardcore. But he was just fine with listening to Fear Factory’s music.

I went to a Rob Zombie concert for Halloween back in '99 and came out a massive Fear Factory fan haha. They were amazing and damn near stole the show as the opening act. Anything from the Obsolete album is just pure gold. They are so underrated especially for there part in the development in 90's metal, that sort of band like Mushroom Head that kind of skirted making it "Big" but never really crossed the line into the "Big Leagues". See the real magic is listening to Demanufacture, Obsolete and Digimortal together as they are intended to be a trilogy of concept albums all related as one big story.

i was never the biggest Fear Factory or Machine Head fan in high school, but i sure do remember everyone assuming i would be into them 😉 and yeah, it turns out, i was

Yes, they're still touring - I saw them live in December. With the new vocalist, who was doing a superb job. Fear Factory's sound was refined over the years, but I wouldn't really say evolved. Overall they have stuck very much to their particular sound. I think their newer albums are still very solid, but if you have listened to Demanufacture and Obsolete, you will definitely know what you can expect. Well, with one notable exception. In between those two albums they released a remix-album called Remanufacture - not widely beloved by their fans, but easily the biggest outlier of all FF releases. Some tracks straight up hardcore house, a bit of triphop sprinkled in, some pure industrial, and much more. It's not very consistent, but it's quite an interesting listen. And definitely a favourite for many of that small crossover group of people who are both into metal and techno.

You are awesome as always! Love this channel! The Only One that I am a Member of! Keep up the great work My Fine Scottish Lady! ❤❤❤

Button's cleans always reminded me of Depeche mode

I dig Fear Factory. Although, I prefer the Industrial Metal sound more similar to early Pitch Shifter, Godflesh, and Dead World. That vocal style was really popular in the 1990's. Phil Anselmo, Layne Staley, and Burton C Bell make up a good portion of the 90's best music and it makes a good description of the decade.

Yes

one eyed gerbil's and jazz hands, what more can you ask for to start off a show? :) love you woman! coughchildintimecough

Burton C Bell is one of the crowd in Nirvana's 'Smells like Teen Spirit' video - he's a self-professed grunge guy, so your AiC comparison is probably spot-on

"Staley Layne" Im dying As a fan of AiC, I fully approve of "Staley Layne"

Love this song for nostalgic reasons but it pales in comparison to Kim Kitsuragi! :D Great shirt!

Yes. I saw them in Bristol in November with their new vocalist, Milo, who is brilliant....and i recommend linchpin (probably their biggest song)

Stopped in For the FF reaction but stayed for the Staley Layne😂 The remake of Gary Newman's Cars was something of interest if you ever get the chance 🍻

Next up is linchpin, edge crusher, dark bodies, what will become, cyberwaste(a song you may enjoy as it's targeted at haters and keyboard warriors 😊)

Burton C Burton had me laughing for a bit. Then you hit me with Staley lane. Superb.

As far as I know… every ff album is a continuation of a story about ai machines integrating in to the world

Great fun as always! Although, I must admit...I was hoping for the one-eyed gerbil. :D Also, couldn't agree with you more about censorship in Art-there's no place for it.

october 31st 1990, not 1989. im one year older than the band

Album names demanufacture obsolete etc

i think it'd be interesting to react to more modern songs from the band as well, the sound has changed some here and there. especially with the latest album, the last one to have burton C bell as vocalist, not that it's *that* different, but still. something to think about at least.

i love your accent 😁

Check out the band Type O Negative

Rob Zombie once stated that 'Metal is an outsider's genre,' which is very true. As such, it's dealt with personal/interpersonal/societal/political, and, yes, rage. Rage does feature heavily in Thrash Metal (Metallica's "Dyer's Eve" is a great example of rage derived from familial strife arising from parental expectations that their child conform to societal norms/expectations). Being a Metalhead in the 80s was much different than being one know, because, back then, there was a lot of societal scrutiny, because of what was deemed to be its controversial content (and while I can appreciate where that concern came from, the response was often wrongly applied and too heavy handed). There was, also, a great deal of humour. Bands like Anthrax wrote humours commentary as a way at hitting back at overbearing, establishment attitudes. Their song "Make Me Laugh' lampooned Televangelist Jim Baker for so piously preaching about his family values only to - of course - be caught with a prostitute. It's too much to go into, but the whole "Satanic Panic" and the P.M.R.C. (Parent's Music Resource Centre, the lovely people responsible for the "Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics" labels, still, present on some material) were highlights of the 80s. But, I'll leave you to discover that on your own. Now, understanding that you're a Horror fan (and I just know you're a romantic), for V-Day, you'll want to listen to "Deathmask Divine" by the Black Dahlia Murder. It's about an, actual, couple and a love that transcended death, itself. You can read about it on Wikipedia; there's, even, a picture - of the beloved - that will freeze your Scottish blood (and I say that, because it froze mine and I'm not a guy who freezes easily). Finally, that's a fine and shiny, new lip gloss, young miss. Things must be going well!!! :)

You're a beautiful woman. Roll tide

Nice reaction, add new messiah with the new singer.

Last time I saw these guys live, Dino was so drunk he could barely stand, never mind play. Good times!

Have to do Resurrection as a next reaction also this song is about being born because you mother was raped and she got pregnant if you look there is clip about burton talking about it

So many people say the 90s were a bad time for metal, which I have always thought was such a ridiculous thing to say. Fear Factory were groundbreaking in a lot of ways. Unfortunately, Burtons live clean singing voice wasn't great in his last years in the band. I've even seen videos of him from around the turn of the millenium where his clean vocals were pretty poor.

Not a fan really but didn't dislike this as much as i thought i would. That driving riff got me i think, i could enjoy that in isolation. Have to say i am right with you on censorship. Nothing but nothing should be beyond discussion.

Sadly, Burton really destroyed his voice over the years. He just couldn't do the clean vocals anymore, and then eventually, he could barely do the harsh ones. It was sad. But a lot of extreme vocalists are faced with that reality eventually. Like Matt Heafy from Trivium. He got to the point that his voice was being destroyed and he had to relearn how to do everything but safely.

`Fear Factory used to be excellent, but got progressively worse over the years. They pioneered Nu metal on the album Demanufacture, with the melodic choruses and harsh verses. Metal isn't so much about rage as it is about Catharsis.

I'm one of those weirdos who only likes their one disavowed album. Archetype. Fantastic from front to back and the only one FF keeps off spotify. So much drama with this band.

There going to be here in my town but i don't want to see them..that singer is not in the band

i have my stinkface preinstalled for FF