ROADIE REACTIONS: REWIND | "Fear Factory - Zero Signal" [THE FIRST METAL SONG I EVER HEARD] 

Thank you I’m glad the album played a big significant role in your childhood. A few fun facts: the band started in 1990 not 1989. There’s more songs from the Terminator II movie that we used samples from,one of the ones u didn’t mention is “H-K” in the middle and at the end of the song we use “we live to face a new nightmare the war against the machines” and other songs as well . COW did not play bass on the Demanufacture album. The producer Collin Richardson asked me to play bass cause Christian was so new in the band he didn’t know all the parts and by the way I didn’t change any riffs during the album recording, all the riffs and arrangements are the same from the Demanufacture demo. Ray ,Burt and I were very well prepared with our parts before going into recording this album, we didn’t want to waste anytime cause time is money. I mean u can hear that we were very well rehearsed we were a band firing on all cylinders. COW was just to new in the band Hope this helps Thank you

Fear Factory has been criminally underrated. When it was among the first with a technologically brutal style, but without oversaturation in the sound. Their crystal metal sound and superb lyrics will always be part of my life. Demanufacture is an absolute masterpiece, obsolote is near. Thanx for the video man, keep the good work!!!!

Demanufacture was so far ahead of its time, its still to this day one of my favorite albums. the first time i heard them was in the opening video to the game Carmageddon. I fell in love with it Zero Signal then and ther and it took me weeks to save up enough pocket money to buy the album, kick starting my life long love of metal music.

Sorry for blowing up your comments with spam, but I wanted to say that for me, FF is one of the IT bands that stands out as progressing me into new areas of metal. I got into metal with Iron Maiden and they were my favorite band, then Metallica, then Fear Factory, and most recently Jinjer. I obviously listen to lots of other bands, but these 4 were (to me) something special and pivoted my tastes into new genres I was not already listening to.

Fear Factory was my gateway into metal via Mortal Kombat as well. Still love their classic albums from the mid 90's.

Have seen Fear Factory live a couple times. One of the first metal songs I remember hearing was Obsolete. They have so many good albums.

i saw them headline the second stage at Ozzfest '99, i was tripping balls. the asphalt became a bubbling boiling mess, i went full primal in the pit through their whole set, one of my favorite memories, even though much of it was hallucinations, i then went and sat in the grass watching Slayer for the first time, one of my favorite days

1st band I ever saw live (Obsolete Tour)..changed my life forever!! Magnificent!!

"Music is fucking awesome" well said... well said!

I saw FF back in 1995 opening for Overkill in SF. My jaw dropped and was dangling around in the pit during their set! What a great show!

Rhys Fulber and his band Front Line Assembly did a great album just before Demanufacture called Millenium. Quitar player for that was none other than Devin Townsend!

Discovered Fear Factory in the MK movie too. Was stoked to find out Dino is from my hometown of El Centro Ca. One of the most influential metal bands of all time.

I got to play a show with Dino when he was in Divine Heresy. 🤘

Definitely one of my top 3 Metal bands of ALL time! I have had the honor of seeing them live so many times dating all the way back to 1994. My oldest son’s very first concert was a Fear Factory concert at the House of Blues in LA before it was torn down. Fear Factory has had such an amazing impact in my life, my husband’s life & both of my sons’ lives with nothing but awesome memories. I completely understand your emotions when listening to this song. 🙌🏼

man your story of fear factory is exactly how i discovered them. 1995 watching mortal kombat in theatres and begging my parents to buy me the record. It had a profanity warning on the label so my dad had to listen to the album in the store first. Sure enough the second track by gravity kills and a very clear cuss word "im FUCKING tired of saying goodbye". Was probably the only swear word in the whole album haha but my dad didnt say anything to my mum and the rest is history. My dad just passed away 3 days ago so thankyou for reminding me of that memory.

My older brother gave me that album as a birthday gift, just in time 👌🔥 ( I turned 10 in 14/6/95). This video brought me so many good memories... going to watch the Mortal kombat movie, playing Carmageddon (which featured "Demanufacture"). Great video man!

every time i hear this song i remember scorpion badass battle with johnny cage.

Love this band. First song I heard was "H-K (Hunter Killer)" from Demanufacture. It was playing on the backround in a TV add and I just had to know what that was. My high-school band also performed "Replica" live in our first gig. Saw them live in 2004 in Tuska Festival, Helsinki. We also just randomly found them in a bar later that night. Exhanged few words and I got autograph from Mr. Bell and Mr. Herrera. Memories man... It's been really rough being their fan, I might add. 2-3 break-ups, line changes etc. And it's very much looking like their last album that we're getting this year.

I love every single Album from Fear Factory. Since 2003 my favourite Band of all time. Thank you Tank for the Video 🤘🏻

"My life, a disarray, and I fade away" This is one of my top 5 albums All Time since I first heard it in 1995, and the delivery of that line can still give me chills.

Fear Factory were the first band I got to see by myself (with a couple friends). I'd been to a handful of concerts before, but they were always with my parents, and they always chose the concert and brought me. I saw some great acts (Aerosmith and Elton John to name a couple), but for me to buy tickets to see Fear Factory and for my folks to let me go was a big deal. The show was on the Obsolete tour and I was really, really into them at the time. I was either 15 or 16 and listened to their three albums (at the time) daily. Static-X and Dope opened. I don't listen to bands like Fear Factory much (if at all) anymore, and I have no idea if the bands sounded as amazing as I remember. Regardless, the show is forever etched in my memory as being absolutely amazing. It was so awesome that my parents let me go, and brought me to the venue two hours away. It changed my life.

My first intro to metal was Disposable Heroes from Metallica in '86 and I've been a metal fan ever since. That sound was just different than anything else I'd ever heard so I can relate to your story with FF. I didn't discover these guys until I heard Descent from the Obsolete album...oddly enough on the radio...back in '99. They quickly became one of my favorite bands and I still would have them in my Top 5 today.

I discovered FF while seeing Ozzy on the Ozzmosis tour in Detroit. Up until that point, I thought Metallica and Megadeth were the heaviest bands. FF opened, and I was in AWE of their sound. The next day I went and bought Demanufacture. They were my gateway drug into "heavier" metal. I recognized Zero Signal when watching the Mortal Kombat movie and freaked out 🤣

Damn Man. A Lot of memories comes to my head right now. it is my first metal song too and i remember put my recording tape linked on vhs in that scene and Rec the fight with the sounds of the fight and listening....

Saw that movie (I was 25) and went right out to buy the soundtrack. While I had been listening to a lot of metal and techno prior to that, I hadn't heard those bands before. The week after, I went out and bought Fear Factory, Type O, KMFDM, Orbital and others.

MK Soundtrack got me into metal as well... Fear Factory is one of my favorite bands

My first exposure to Fear Factory was Demanufacture too, but the song Replica... first album I asked my dad to buy me was Metallica Black album and the first with my money was Sepultura The Roots of Sepultura (which is the Roots album with a B sides CD)

Finally someone who loves Archetype as well! Love that album! All i say here is "Cyberwaste"! :)

Dude.... the Mortal Kombat soundtrack was my intro to Metal also! First CD I ever owned and down the heavy metal rabbit hole I went.

Yes! FF is so awesome. Definitely the band responsible for getting me into more industrial metal. Demanufacture & Obsolete are just classics! Nice pick again Tank!!!

Pretty sure I first listened to Fear Factory in 1990. It was on a compilation (I *think* it might have been an Earache comp?). The song was “Martyr” and I had NEVER heard anything like it before. Industrial metal was something I had not yet encountered (I was more into Thrash and Prog at the time), but Martyr made me sit up straight and take notice. Bloody hell it was heavy!! Maybe it was Burton’s vocal change-ups, maybe it was Raymond’s precision percussion, maybe it was how Dino attacked the chords, maybe it was the freight-train rumble of Christian’s bass. Hell. It was ALL that, LOL. Anyway I bought “Soul of a New Machine” when it came released but loved only about ½ of it - something was missing, some element. Then “Demanufacture” came out and it was as if the band had reinvented their sound - kinda reminded me of how Metallica’s sound evolved from Kill ‘Em All to Ride the Lightning. A big change in songwriting and recording that was NEXT-LEVEL stuff, that few artists, if any, were doing at the time. My 23-year-old mind was blown and became a solid fan. I know what you mean about Burton’s voice on stage: it can be spotty. But when I saw them on the Obsolete tour in 1998 in San Francisco he and everyone else were fantastic (especially Raymond - the dude must have a V8 in his family tree). I can remember SO MANY long drives to and from concerts while listening to this album. Ahhh… good days. Thanks for the nostalgia man. Oh and BTW, the first album I ever bought with my own money was Def Leppard’s “Pyromania” in 1984. My older sister bought “Bark at the Moon” the same day. \m/

Oh man, it's been a while since I last been on youtube and damn this brought me back to my childhood. I was about 6 when Mortal Kombat came out and think I've heard this track been used somewhere else too.

For me obsolete was my first fear factory album (3rd overall). Edgecrusher, smasher/devourer, descent and shock were my favourites

I found out about these guys the exact same way you did. I was absolutely hooked on the sound.

Can't go wrong with these guys! Saw them in NC a couple years ago and the show was phenomenal!!! First song they played was "Shock"!! Freaking awesome!! 🤘🤘 Personal fav as of now is their newest release "Fuel Injected Suicide Machine". They also made me cry the first time from a metal song "Linchpin". So beautifully written and orchestrated!

The best combo ever: Mortal Kombat and Metal...

Fear Factory "Zero Signal," GZR "The Invisible" and Napalm Death "Twist the Knife (Slowly)" were the first metal songs I ever heard. Thanks, Mortal Kombat!

the first time I heard FF was in the first carmagedon game, I instantly fell in love with their music and i ran to the store to buy their album, cheers from Brasil.

First time I ever heard Fear Factory was the ending credits of the first Saw movie. To this day, Bite the Hand That Bleeds is still my favorite song by them.

My first time hearing them was live in Maine for a Halloween concert headlined by Rob Zombie. They were promoting Obsolete and he was promoting Hellbilly Deluxe. Went for Zombie as I never heard of Fear Factory before but when I left that concert I went out the next day and bought all three albums that were out at the time and cranked it. Never heard anything like it before and just loved it.

My first *known* exposure to Fear Factory was around 98/99, hearing Resurrection on the radio. Sadly, the fact that douchebag boyfriend from that time loooooooooved them kept me from looking at any more of their music, not even playing the cd he bought me until 15 years later. Man, I missed out on so much through those years!

I heard FF for the first time at my very first metal concert in the early 2000's. They were an opener for Slipknot at that show. I was blown away, I didn't know any of their songs but I was going bananas during their setlist. So good!

Found this piece in the original Carmagedon. But now that you say that MK also had this track i might have heard it there first.

Yes! Me too mate, this album was a revelation for me. I discovered it because they put the instrumental of the album into the video game Carmageddon. Thought the soundtrack was badass and was blown away to find out it was an actual band. You're right about Burton live, I've seen some pretty awful videos.. luckily when I saw them live he was on point

My first experience of Fear Factory was seeing them live at an Australian Outdoor Festival when they replaced Sepultura at the last minute. I was hooked from that day on. That would have been just after this album came out and they were Amazing live!!! I got to see them one more time after that and got to meet Dino in person at that same show as he was hanging out the front of the venue just talking to the fans. A really cool guy!!!! Raymond Herrera is a machine live, he literally embodied the industrial sound and the clinical accuracy of a machine. An Amazing Drummer. I haven’t really listened to much of their later stuff but I am sure it is Awesome!!!!

This album still sounds fresh. Saw them play the whole thing in 2016.

Used to have Demanufacture on C-cassette back in the day. Don't even remember when it disappeared/disintegrated....been a while.

Fear Factory's "Demanufacture" and Meshuggah's "Chaosphere" were the two albums that got me into the heavier side of metal. I will forever love this album.

Oh this is ooooold and gooood. Mortal Kombaaat. The only album of a movie that I have. That was an absolute exception for me because the soundtrack was just so good. And the cd really packed.

One of my favorite memories was durring the Obsolete tour cycle, Christian would come out with the stand up bass for Edgecrusher

Demanufacture was one of the most important albums of my late teens when it came out, rock on man!

I thank you for letting me hear this for the first time. What a great song for that era. I have now more stuff to check out.

Nice really enjoying the REWIND stuff, I was never into metal when I was younger. 37 nearly 38 now and loving catching up.

I don't remember when I first heard them but I do remember enjoying a few albums in highschool. Think about them a lot, but don't que them up. I'll change that now

I was exposed to FF for the first time when they were touring this album and opening for Megadeth touring Youthanasia, along with Korn touring their debut, and Flotsam and Jetsam.

🤘🏻Same!! First time hearing Fear Factory was from the movie Mortal Kombat in 95 and I think I was like 9 or 10 and I’ve been a fan of Fear Factory ever since. Lol couldn’t tell you how many times I’ve rewound the scene in Mortal Kombat of Jonny Cage & Scorpion fighting just to hear Zero Signal from Fear Factory.

Aw god dam! Nice one Tank 👍 Memories of local bar all head banging to ‘self bias resistor ‘!! Everyone in the bar, ‘metalhead or not ‘ was full on head banging to fear factory 🤣. I remember the one of the old locals who loved the bar and crack said,’ I’m 75, why haven’t you played this for me before’ 😄. I do love catching up with older music, Not much new music at the moment. Any opinion on sepultura ?, as in Max Cavalerra ?

This song was also the intro music of the PC game Carmageddon in an instrumental version. I heard it there first. It also got me for the first listen, more then that game although that was cool to.

Fear Factory was a constant in my youth. I saw them live in 2001. It was incredible

I always thank FF for inspiring my favorite band. Of all time ( and helping them get their big break ) Spineshank

Man... Fear Factory and Pantera made me a metalhead \m/

I've heard/read that on this particular album Raymond played without triggers on the kicks. The sound/attack of the hits was tuned into the mix afterwards. His hits were consistent enough that the volume level from hit to hit didn't need tweaked either. 💪 🤘

Fear Factory was always so amazing. One of my favorite bands. I've seen them live so many times. I don't hear to many people talk about them anymore, but they were so original and so ahead of their time.

Saw them live yesterday. Dude they are still kicking ass. Milo has great vocals and Dino is a legend! Pumped to see them again.

Obsolete was probably first concept album I listened to, and it was a great experience. Demanufacture, Remanufacture, and Obsolete are a great mix.

So happy to see Fear Factory on the channel. Yeah there's been conflicts here and there between the members and everything, but their music slaps. Only had chance to see them live once in 2015 back in my hometown in Tucson, they toured with Coal Chamber. Great memories.

Wow this was unexpected! Fear Factory are amazing. Self Bias Resistor is a MUST.

I loved Fear Factory back in the day. Still go back to them every now and then. Just an awesome band

As a metal head for 30yrs now if I had to choose 3 bands and there whole catalog and that’s all I could listen to for the rest of my life Fear Factory would definitely be one of the 3 bands for me that band speaks to my soul

Oh dude. I actually never connected this dot. I love Fear Factory but I remember getting introduced to them with Obsolete. But I made my mom take me to see Mortal Kombat in theaters twice on opening weekend and then I got the soundtrack. Wasn't really paying attention to music yet so I never put this together. What a nostalgia trip!

I will also say that I thought there were 2 singers when I heard this, and that they were using a drum machine. At this time (1995), I can't remember any other vocalist doing 2 singing styles and drums that sounds that crisp, fast and precise. In thrash metal, you just had really fast double bass doing like 32nd 64th notes. When I heard this doing triplets and weird patterns, I just assumed it was a drum machine.

Thx for the nice analysis and fun facts. Back here after yesterdays FF concert. Luckily legal issues should be solved these days, and I hope that with new members they will go on.

My first Fear Factory experience was completely accidental: I went to see a multi-act concert on my birthday, back in '95, headlined by Megadeth. There was one other band on the bill that I'd heard of, Flotsam & Jetsam (which I knew mainly as being Jason Newsted's old band), plus a band that would blow up shortly afterward that went by the name of Korn. But the band that blew me away, to the point where I went out the very next day and bought their first cd I could find (Soul of a New Machine), was Fear Factory. "Scapegoat" is one of my favorite metal songs of all time, to this day. Such a great and influential band within the industry, but one that a lot of metalheads either missed completely or just forgot about. Great to see you bringing them back to your audience!

My favorite album of all time from any artist!!!!!

The mortal kombat fight with scorpion is where I heard this first. I was a kid and no means to seek it out and my parents typically thought all metal was evil. Just made me wanted it more!!!

Aah, this brings me back! 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻 Awesome album, awesome band!

This brings back memories! My start in Metal came with Metallica's Black Album, then Maiden. After that came all those Roadrunner bands in the 90's like Sepultura, Type O Negative, Biohazard, Life Of Agony, but nothing sounded like Fear Factory and both Demanufacture and Obsolete were amazing. First time I saw them live was on the Obsolete tour in Amsterdam and back then we had no idea about hearing protection or anything like that and the whole concert me and my brother were standing next to a speaker... I came out having a beep in my ear for two days, but my brother couldnt hear sh*t for 3 days! :o So if I do have some form of hearing damage (no problems so far, thank the gods) I can actually pinpoint the day... Another thing was, back in the day I had an alarmclock with a built-in CD player that you could program. So for a while I woke up every morning, almost having a heart attack, to the beginning of Replica. And you know how that song starts... :p

The whole album is so good

We all know that feeling when childhood music starts and the emotions just roll over you, so relatable :)

Love Fear Factory! Met Dino when he was playing for Divine Heresy, just a great dude. This Track just kicks ass, still does

This is one of my favorite Fear Factory songs ever. Their new one “Disruptor” is awesome but this one is on another level.

I always knew there must be a reason why I instantly decided you must be a cool guy, now I know why! I was introduced to FF by an old friend I had in college with the album Archetype (Although I think Transgression was out too at the time) and I was hooked, worked my way backwards to Demaufacture & this album solidified FF as my most favourite band ever! Even as a teen in the early 2000's I was already a big fan of the film Blade Runner & ofcourse the Terminator films so it really was a big solidification & joining of my love for Sci-fi & industrial metal. I've managed to see FF 4 times now with differing line-ups, although never with Christian & Raymond, which sucks as they were part of my fave line-up. The first time I saw FF I just stood there still throughout the whole set soaking everything in, Byron was playing with them on Bass at this time & I remember him locking eyes with me quite a few times, each time he spotted me in the crowd, I guess I must have stood out for my relative stillness compared to most who were that close to the stage. My fave misheard lyrics for this song "I am solo, Haaaaaan Sooooolloooo"!

Saw them live as they closed Wacken 2010. Badass concert!

This was my 1st song that I heard from FF. And it was from the soundtrack as well for me. The Demanufactured album is nothing but killer tracks from top to bottom. Body Hammer is my favorite song over all.

This sounded awesome when Johnny cage went against scorpion in the mortal kombat movie.....pure perfection

Man, Mortal Kombat was also my gateway.. hated "zero signal" at first but it grew on me. So many great \songs... and lets not forget the MORRRRTTAAAALLLLL Kombat theme!

You basically have the same story as me. I can’t wait for the new Mortal Kombat.

One of my favorite albums of all time. Very few of my friends got into them. Last time the came to my area the old gang got together to see them at a small club in NH that had maybe 120 full capacity. The performance was delayed because FF techs hated how the sound check sounded. The house board tech was an idiot and almost cost us the show. Luckily it went on and Burton actually sounded great. Previous 2 shows he sounded off. Thanks for bringing back some great memories Tank 🤘

My first exposure was Remanfacture. I had no idea what i was hearing other than it WAS FUCKING AWESOME Shortly after learning every track, did i locate Demanfacture. FF loyalist ever since

The Carmageddon intro is all I can think about with this one! It's actually Carmageddon that got me listening to Fear Factory back in the mid/late 90s! Great game, even better band!

First time I ever heard FF was at Ozzfest ‘97 in Minneapolis. Went out & bought Demanufacture the next day. Damn great band who was 20 years ahead of their time.

The first metal song I remember ever having heard is either from AC/DC (Hells Bells) or Iron Maiden (Run to the Hills). And OMG that is a long time ago... PS. In this song there are some incredibly interesting connections to what I would call New Wave - particularly as regards the electronic feel.

My first exposure to really heavy music was FF aswell. I heard Digimortal and was instantly hooked. Up until this point i never heard doublebass drumming. Edit: I had the pleasure to see them live on the campus of my university. It was called Devil Side 2010. It also had Airbourne, Amon Amarth, Danko Jones and more. It was between all of the universitys buildings. Really wild.

I am 49 and this is my fav band of all time!

Epic song/record it holds a ton of nostalgia for me too.

I saw that movie when it came out in the theater! Love Fear Factory. Seen them in concert a couple times back in the 90s. Linchpin is a great song! I always thought Burton was a great vocalist. It's a shame that egos get in the way of great music and Burton has said he is done with Fear Factory. He does have a new band called Ascension of the Watchers

Fun fact, my wife and I are friends with Dino and his ex Jenn, we stayed with them in their house in Burbank when we toured the US from Australia 🤘🏼🤘🏼

This was my first time hearing Fear Factory too, but I was too young to even realise it. Didn't properly discover them until much later.

To tears you love FF and music as much as I do. Much Respect

My fondest memory of the band was a concert in Amsterdam I went to of them in the early 2000s (Christian was the guitarist at that time). My boyfriend (now husband) managed to convince someone of the crew to allow us to talk with Herrera about him potentially doing the soundtrack of a video game we were working on. We hit it off so much, he asked us to come into the tourbus and we spent the whole night talking about music and video games. He gave us his contact info for Herrera Productions. We really do wanted him on board, unfortunately the game got cancelled. :( But we had the times of our lives. Herrera and Hoglan were drummers I adored.