Probably the best tour I saw. I saw this at sugar here in Victoria 2005. Best part is was a venue for 500? Packed. Sound was huge. Medium size stage. I wish I had video
As a young metalhead not yet into harsh vocals, this tour, set and band changed it all for me. So despite this cycle being for their "weakest" album, it got me into the band as a whole. Burton and the boys out there pouring their souls out on tour kept them relevant. I guess you could say COW had a bigger influence on me than Dino for that reason.
Same here man. After I got Mechanize I listened to all their old stuff and this album has some great songs. Different sound to it, but one of my favs is 540,000 degree Fahrenheit. "Watch the firestorm, Incinerate you into ash! All that you know burns away into dust. So many Lives. So many Innocent. Burn!" Still the same vibe that FF always gives. Can't wait for the new stuff!!!
I have a fond tether to this album. I had just bought a shitty used car and my first trip was to go to the store to get the transgression album (and area 51 for ps2). My car's engine threw a rod and I still drive 10 miles to the store and bought the album. I said "fuck you" to that piece of shit car. At least it took me to get that bad ass album!
Wow bad ass!! Love me some FF. Can’t believe ppl think Monolith will be a thing. Dino is trying but just let it go. We got many years of awesome music from Burton and Dino.
Now that the current fear factory line up with dino has played archetype and cyberwaste live, i wonder if they will play this one some time. Clearly one of the best tracks from Transgression.
they really played that songs? hope they do it on next euro-tour too! Not playing archetype songs on stage is such a waste. About Transgression a care less, but Spinal Compression would be cool
Haha, right? It was very steel and metallic sounding in nature. I remember reading in an interview that Christian Olde Wolbers had to leave the recording room because of the sound of the guitar.
I am glad they changed the sound of the guitar from Archetype. The guitar one om Archetype sounded like wood to me. Not saying Archetype was a bad album, it was a great album.
I imagine those two albums were taken out of their set list due to legal reasons. I mean, when dino came back into the picture and booted cow and ray, there was a HUGE and very ugly legal battle that ensued shortly after. Plus, although us, as fans, really loved those albums, dino quite hated them. Which is part of why he got back into the picture.
Right? It's a shame the album was rushed and unfinished (poor production and some songs that are basically demos) because I loved the direction they were going in. The high points of Transgression showed they were evolving as a band. It's a shame what Burton and Dino did to Christian and Raymond. These days, they are still putting out kickass songs, but it feels like they just do variations on a theme. Like every album is built upon what they did on Demanufacture.
@@chasethecolors Well, if it ain't broke don't fix it. Genexus was a great album, and Mechanize shows they can evolve their sound but not go to the extent they did with Transgression.
@@Xenoforge78 Mechanize is a monster of a record. Shame they went a bit backwards with The Industrialist and Genexus, although Genexus is also a very strong record, with Protomech being my favourite song on that one.
@@StrikerUSS StrikerUSS 100% Agree dude. The Industrialist is easily one of their weakest records IMO, Genexus was a solid album but it can't beat out Mechanize, Gene Hoglan playing drums on Mechanized is probably part of that haha.
