Archetype (album)

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Archetype
Studio album by Fear Factory
Released	April 20, 2004
Recorded	October-November 2003
Genre	Industrial
Length	59:02
Label	Liquid 8
Producer(s)	Fear Factory
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Fear Factory chronology
Hatefiles (2003)	Archetype (2004)	Transgression (2005)

Archetype (2004) is an album by Los Angeles metal/industrial music band Fear Factory. This album is not a concept album like the previous albums. The music on this album returns to the style of the Demanufacture era which pleased many fans.

Contents 1 Making of the album 2 Track listing 3 Possible song interpretations 4 External links

[edit] Making of the album

The making of Archetype came after a time of flux for the band. Following some personal differences between band members, lead singer Burton C. Bell announced his exit in March 2002, and the band disbanded immediately thereafter. However, the band reformed later that year minus guitarist Dino Cazares. With Bell back on board, bassist Christian Olde Wolbers took over guitar duties and they hired Byron Stroud on bass, currently bassist of the band Strapping Young Lad and Zimmer's Hole and still with Raymond Herrera on drums. The new lineup's first album Archetype was released on April 20 2004 on its new record label Liquid 8 based in Minnesota with the band having parted company with Roadrunner Records.

The album was named as the band feels that Fear Factory has led the way for many metal bands leading it to be an archetype of that style as Bell explains on the band's website. "When you look up the definition of the word, Archetype, it's the actual model from which everything else is copied. Fear Factory is that in my opinion, and Archetype is a defining moment for us. Listen to this record, and you'll know exactly where all these other bands came from." Bell also considers that while the record expresses the band's experiences over the years between 2002 and 2004, it is clearly a Fear Factory Record.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Slave Labor"
2. "Cyberwaste"
3. "Act of God"
4. "Drones"
5. "Archetype"
6. "Corporate Cloning"
7. "Bite The Hand That Bleeds"
8. "Undercurrent"
9. "Default Judgement"
10. "Bonescraper"
11. "Human Shields"
12. "Ascension"
13. "School" (Cobain; Nirvana cover)
14. "Australian Tour 2003" (multimedia)

[edit] Possible song interpretations

• Slave Labor contains references to the self-immolation of a person against the corporate world, e.g. Kathy Change.
• Cyberwaste contains references to anonymous Internet users who express haughty opinions only because they are "safe behind the cyberscreen".
• The title track Archetype is directed at ex-guitarist Dino Cazares: "The infection has been removed/The soul of this machine has improved."

         Burton C. Bell - vocals 
         Christian Olde Wolbers - guitar 
         Byron Stroud - bass  
         Raymond Herrera - drums 

[edit] External links

• Fear Factory page
• All Music Guide Archetype article

Fear Factory
Burton C. Bell | Christian Olde Wolbers | Byron Stroud | Raymond Herrera
Dino Cazares | Andrew Shives
Discography
Albums: Concrete | Soul of a New Machine | Demanufacture | Obsolete | Digimortal | Archetype | Transgression
Live, compilation and remix albums: Fear Is the Mindkiller | Remanufacture | Hatefiles
Related articles
G/Z/R | Strapping Young Lad | Zimmer's Hole