FEAR FACTORY Self Bias Resistor Reaction Remastered!!! 

Way ahead of the curve. A groundbreaking band.

What? FF didn't pioneer mixing clean and harsh vocals? My Dying Bride was already doing that (at least on earlier albums) and that's ignoring things like melodic death metal bands who were mixing clean vocals and harsh death vocals. Also the double kick is straight from the death metal genre, nothing to do with FF...

Fear Factory started as a death metal band, and changed their sound on this "Demanufacture" album drastically. They were still doing the clean vocals, but before this style in the video they reacted to, Burton C. Bell sounded much more in the vein of Napalm Death, Cannibal Corpse, and Suffocation. They were founded in 1989, one year before My Dying Bride. They absolutely were the pioneers of this sound. I would know, because I'm an old bastard that's been listening to death metal, thrash, grindcore, and doom since the 1980's. MDB was probably the European's influence into this sound, because they heard them before FF would have blown up, which wasn't for a few more years.

This is what early FF sounded like. This song was written in 1989, and finally released in 1992 after they were signed by Roadrunner. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ydIkzH3pzeA.html

@@tryptamind6839 fear factory and my dying bride started out in the same year

Or Dielectric, Powershifter, Fear Campaign and the whole Obsolete album. ;P :D \m/

Bro it’s rare for fear factory NOT to release a banger. You could dedicate a whole ass channel to reactions of fear factory song. Their THAT GOOD

Final Exit is such a great song, it will be my funeral song

I second that. Fear factory is severely underrated

I'm sorry, but no. Meshuggah has almost nothing in common with FF. They sound similar only on the surface level. FF's debut studio album is 'Soul of A New Machine' and it's mostly a mix of industrial metal like Godflesh and some early death metal. Also, just in case, 'Demanufacture' came out one month after 'Destroy Erase Improve'. Meshuggah is heavily rooted in thrash metal sound and some progressive metal (also jazz fusion, listen closely to that oddball Holdsworth-y solo right in the middle of the motherfucking Future Breed Machine). Listen to 'Humiliative' from their 'None' EP (1994) - yeah, it's more thrashy and conventional compared to DEI, but it's already sounds like Meshuggah, so there's no need for that extremely far-fetched Fear Factory influence. Their sound is aesthetiacally is quite different too. FF's guitar tone is more growly and gritty and they are much, much more straightforward rhythmically, while Meshuggah's guitar tone is harsher and more abrasive. FF are all about being 'dark, gritty and brutal' (with lyrics that explicitly deal with societal problems). Meshuggas are also brutal, ofc they are, but they also portray creepy, very unsettling atmosphere and extreme levels of insanity just with their sound. FF's straightforward rebellous sound aesthetic has nothing to do with fucked up shit like 'Elastic' or confusion, fear and madness of 'Catch Thirtythree'. If anything, both band have been taking notes from groove metal bands like Panthera and Sepultura - that's where their similarities come from.

@Alex Under: I understand where you come from. However, Meshuggah themselves have admitted having been heavily influenced by Demanufacture, by the machine gun drumming and Dino's palm muting especially (he pretty much invented it). Which doesn't mean that both bands are identical or anything. Just that their sound comes from somewhere...

Demanufacture and Obsolete are absolute gold. You can say their work from demanfacture on is all somewhat similar, but none of it is bad, some are better then other, none are bad, they're resoanably consistent in style, maybe a bit much sometimes, but, like i said, none of it is bad. IMHO.

I mean, 'underground' is a relative thing, but yeah I don't know how mainstream you have to be to consider Fear Factory underground. They could have at least used something like one of the remixes from Fear is the Mindkiller if they were calling them underground. Re-reading what I've just typed, I think I might be 'that guy' now. Bad times. :(

Jesus christ, calm down. FF isn't responsible for any of that shit. Meshuggah already existed before FF, and Djent is credited to Meshuggah with "Aztec Two Step" from their None EP being considered the first Djent song. FF is nowhere near the first band to mix clean and harsh vocals. My Dying Bride was already doing it (at least on earlier albums) before FF and that's ignoring all the melodic death metal bands who mixed clean vocals with harsh death vocals. Also it's not weird at all for FF to be underground. Underground is just a catch-all term to describe any band/artist who isn't mainstream. FF was never mainstream thus they are usually considered underground, and no they didn't spawn any new genre of metal...

Yes!

I agree wholeheartedly!

I agree with everything, except Dog Day Sunrise is my least favorite song!

Mechanize?

Guilherme Lacerda I prefer Obsolete personally !

I really like this album but I'm not sure it's "industrial" enough to be the best in that category. I'd say Ministry's The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste would be closer to that.

Yes, this! An absolute classic.

Cosmic Sea Yes!!!

So much want! I love embodiment also

Blood spattered banner would be great to see them react to.

Come for the "HK-(Hunter-Killer)" stay for the "Pisschrist" \m/ \m/

The video was full screen so you couldn't see their reactions as the song was playing.

I saw them in NYC, same, opened for Ozzy and I bought next day. Unbelievable

Whoa. Day from HADES. I totally get it. Look at my last name! :P

Hunter-killer, shock or cars too!

Obsolete is also an epic album.. For sure!!

Lexius Nez Archetype is also pretty good

Mechanize is one of my favorites. I liked Remanufacture back in the day but not so much anymore.

It's criminal how overlooked they are.

Any CLUTCH song is amazing. I would recommend *Binge & Purge*

Great version i was at that show

Makes sense

No we don’t listen to more. But we’ve done 400+ songs so there’s more to choose from now. But before it was hard !!