Fear Factory News
- Posted: 06.09.13
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- By: edgecrusher
In praise of “Demanufacture”, Matt Lawrence from the Liverpool City Champion has posted a very cool story today…
“In 1995 the band produced one of heavy metal’s golden moments with their mind-expanding release, Demanufacture.
The album pushed the genre to its very limits, incorporating visceral guitar playing, razor sharp drumming, and over all techno theme with electronic landscapes.
It was capped by a vocal performance by Burton C Bell, who effortlessly proved heavy metal vocalists were not only guttural bellowers, but were quite capable of clean in tune singing.
Theirs was a creation that sparked a new genre of heavy music, one replicated by many an act to follow, and one that has provided a platform for each of the band’s six releases to follow.” Read the full story here.
According to Bell, the band was unaware of the effect…
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- Posted: 05.23.13
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- By: edgecrusher
This makes me wish I lived in Australia .. story from Faster Louder.com
Fear Factory are regular visitors to Australia and they’re touring again in July, but this time around they have a special treat for fans: they’re playing their classic second album Demanufacture in full for the first time ever.
The 1995 concept album – recorded with the band’s “classic lineup” – is widely recognised as one of industrial metal’s most innovative, influential and revolutionary records. The current live lineup of Fear Factory features two key members from the Demanufacture era – singer Burton C. Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares, who was absent from the band’s lineup for most of the past decade. They’re joined by recent recruits – bassist Matt DeVries and drummer Mike Heller – who joined Fear Factory early last year just prior to the release of The Industrialist album.
The band was last in Australia…
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- Posted: 05.14.13
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- By: edgecrusher
The reviews have been great and the band have been catching up with many of their old friends from the US press, among them Metal Mark from SkullNBones.com . In a video interview with Dino, we hear about the current tour and plans for a new album in 2014. Check out the interview here.
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- Posted: 04.23.13
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- By: edgecrusher
BCB speaks of life on the road with MICHIGANLIVE.com.
“For musicians like Dino (Cazares, guitarist) and I, every couple years we put out a record — one, to promote new music but also to promote old music so we go on tour. “No one’s selling records anymore. The only way working musicians can survive is by touring. I consider myself a working musician. Bands like Bon Jovi, they’re musicians that chose to tour. They don’t have to tour, but they chose to. It’s good for them but they don’t have to survive by touring. That’s how we survive.” Read more here!
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- Posted: 04.07.13
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- By: edgecrusher
APRIL is finally here and the first dates of the 2013 US Fear Factory tour are soon to kick off! Just as this leg kicks off -comes the announcement that Fear Factory will be hitting the seas on the 2014 70,000 Tons Of Metal and playing the Demanufacture record in it’s entirety. For more check out this posting from Gunshyassasin.com!
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- Posted: 03.07.13
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- By: edgecrusher
We love the team at MetalInsider.net, they always ask the cool questions. BCB was interviewed by them for a feature called “My First Band.” His story is below and you can read the entire feature here.
Burton C Bell of Fear Factory :
I moved to Los Angeles in 1989 from Washington DC. I had hopes of being a writer and bounced from job to job. After I’d been there for a few months, a friend of mine handed me a flyer and goes, “hey man, why don’t you try out for my new band I’m putting together,” because I always used to talk to this guy and we had similar tastes in music. So, went and tried out and got the part. We were inspired by early 1990’s, so…
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