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Demanufacture is the Second Official Record (not counting the previous EP Fear is the Mindkiller) by the Los Angeles industrial metal band Fear Factory. This is the band's first album with their classic line-up adding new bassist Christian Olde Wolbers. Many regard it as the band's magnum opus and a heavy metal classic[1][2][3]. The album was certified Gold in Australia by ARIA[4] and Silver in the UK by the BPI[5]. Tracks 1 to 4 were feature on The Best of Fear Factory. Demanufacture is purported to be a concept album about a man's struggles against a machine-controlled government, with each song a chapter in his life. The band stated the album took its inspiration from the movie, The Terminator[6]. This album originally had two mixes. They were by Greg Reely and the other by Colin Richardson. Because many felt Reely's mix was the best as it captured the electronic elements more than Richardson's mix, which was more fixated on the guitars, Richardson's mix was rejected. The mix we hear now is Reely's mix. The Richardson mix of "Zero Signal" and "Body Hammer" can be found on the Hatefiles compilation. After the release of the album, some critics and observers suggested that drummer Raymond Herrera had in fact used a drum machine, due to the often blistering speed and machine-like precision of the drumming, most notably on the bass drums. He records, however, with a click track to keep time[7]. He is also known to use triggers on his drum sets for the purpose of keeping the sound of his drums, particularly bass drums, consistent regardless of how hard they are struck. This is a common strategy used by metal drummers when playing at such speeds, as relatively few drummers are able to achieve such rapid and consistent notes without the use of triggers. *Though the album was written largely before Christian Olde Wolbers had joined, and though Dino Cazares played bass on several tracks, Olde Wolbers later stated in an interview in 2004 that he made a small contribution to the writing of the title track and "Pisschrist."[8] The music for "A Therapy For Pain" was originally written as the opening for "Echoes of Innocence" from the then unreleased Concrete demo. The outro passage was inspired by Hidjokaidan and Aphex Twin. The video for the song "Replica" is unlockable in the video game Test Drive 5. Several songs from this album were used without lyrics for the game Carmageddon. These were Demanufacture, Zero Signal (of which had the piano ending omitted) and Body Hammer. The song "Zero Signal" was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Mortal Kombat and can be heard in part during the fight scene between Scorpion and Johnny Cage. The opening riff of the title track was voted 19th in Total Guitar's list of "The Heaviest Riffs of all Time. The opening sample from "Pisschrist" is taken from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day". The bands then-unreleased first album "Concrete" also had a track named "Piss Christ", but the two bear no similarities other than the title. During the filming of their single "Replica", Raymond Herrera said one of the only things he remembered about the day, was having peach cobbler. The song "Replica" has been covered by Dutch symphonic gothic metal band Epica on their album The Divine Conspiracy.
[edit] Track listing
- "Demanufacture" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 4:13
- "Self Bias Resistor" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:12
- "Zero Signal" (Cazares/Herrera) – 5:57
- "Replica" (Cazares/Herrera) – 3:56
- "New Breed" (Cazares/Herrera) – 2:49
- "Dog Day Sunrise" (Head of David cover) – 4:45
- "Body Hammer" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:05
- "Flashpoint" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 2:53
- "H-K (Hunter-Killer)" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:17
- "Pisschrist" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera/Wolbers) – 5:25
- "A Therapy for Pain" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 9:43
[edit] Reception
- Kerrang! (p.61) - "[T]his is a landmark of '90s metal that defied categorisation and remains a touchstone of the genre."
- Kerrang! (p.51) - "[With] sonorous, soaring vocal hooks. The melding of power and melody proved a statement of absolute power."
[edit] Bonus Tracks
- "Your Mistake" ft. Freddy Cricien (Agnostic Front cover) – 1:30*
- "¡Resistancia!" – 2:55*
- "New Breed (Revolutionary Designed Mix)"* - 2:59
- "Replica (Electric Sheep Mix)"* - 3:58
- Tracks 12-15, marked with an asterisk, are Limited Edition Digipak (released on Nov 7, 1995) bonus tracks.
- Some countries, including Canada, did not get Replica (Electric Sheep Mix) as a bonus track.
- The original digipaks had slightly different artwork, most noticeably a different barcode on the front cover, and different colouring within the words Fear Factoy.
- The digipak was re-released in 2003 with all bonus tracks mentioned above, but with the new Roadrunner Records logo on the front and back and different lettering on the spine. This version is not limited, but has since been replaced by the remastered edition detailed below. In all, four different digipak versions of the album are available.
[edit] 2005 Remastered Edition
The album was remastered and re-released on June 7, 2005 in a digipak edition, with new bonus tracks and the remastered Remanufacture - Cloning Technology as the second disc.
[edit] CD# 1 bonus tracks
- "Your Mistake" (Agnostic Front cover) – 1:30
- "¡Resistancia!" – 2:55
- "Concreto" - 3:30
- "New Breed (Revolutionary Designed Mix)" - 2:59
- "Manic Cure" - 5:09
- "Flashpoint (Chosen Few Mix)" - 4:09
[edit] CD# 2 tracks
- "Remanufacture" - 6:43
- "National Panel Beating" - 4:38
- "Genetic Blueprint" - 4:23
- "Faithless" - 5:25
- "Bionic Chronic" - 0:33
- "Cloning Technology" - 5:52
- "Burn" - 5:06
- "T-1000" - 4:07
- "Machines of Hate" - 5:50
- "21st Century Jesus" - 7:19
- "Bound for Forgiveness" - 6:02
- "Refinery" - 3:02
- "Cyberdyne" - 4:28
- "Refueled" - 4:37
- "Transgenic" - 5:42
- "New Breed (Spoetnik Mix)" - 3:52
[edit] Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)
[edit] References
