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Good review, Aaron. The few songs I heard from this are more than enough to persuade me not to get it. I had hoped...but never mind, there are better bands out there. It's just a pity that they invented a genre and messed it up.

I wish I'd never heard this album; its total immaturity managed to ruined all their other work for me.. now I can hear nothing in their music apart from faux-industrial at it's worst, and it just confirmed my suspicion that Burton C. Bell's singing never meshed with their style... and two cover songs? Balls to them, they fucked up Demanufacture for me, so they win a dazzling score of 29/100.

Interestingly, I liked Static X's new single more than 'Point Of Impact', which is far too repetitive and too long. From a purely 'fun' point of view, of course.

Ouch. Harsh review, Dead Machine.

Anyway, I saw Fear Factory live about two months ago, and one of the songs on this record (I forget the title) was on the setlist. I liked it then, and really hoped it would be an indication of good things to come on Transgression.

In all fairness, Fear Factory WAS one of the bands that kickstarted the whole nu-metal genre with Demanufacture, so you can't really slam them for sticking to the style they essentially helped pioneer.

It's kinda sad though, 540,000 Fahrenheit was a great song, but apparently, the rest (save a couple) is crap. I'll probably download 540,000 Fahrenheit and the other good songs and ignore the rest.

Kickstarted nu-metal? No fucking way did ANY of their early material resemble nu-metal. Demanufacture is the farthest thing away from Nu, also. If anything, "Digimortal" was their most "nu"-wave album.

Haven't heard it yet, but it sounds like what I like to call an "Audio Shit Sandwich," or "A.S.S.," if you will. The bread is nice, fresh and tasty on both sides, but you take a big bite and there's nothing but shit in the middle. So many bands do this! They write a shit album for the most part and surround all the shit with two or three good tracks. It's almost like they think a good first track or two will make it easier for them to slip by those shitty songs and then you'll forget how bad the shit was because the last track is good!!

Yeah, those're my feelings exactly.

In any event, I plan to never listen to this album again. But this is a Joke of 2005 if I ever saw one.

ow man... :cry: ... i certainly know a guy who'll try to convince me that this record rulez the next time i'll see him, cuz he really has no critical sense...

I heard the first 5 songs and gave up.

When I saw FF on the Gigantour I was very disappointed in them. I hadn't heard them in years and did enjoy the first 2 albums. They were bland to say the least. The songs have no dynamics, they just sound like a bad Pantera wannabe without the great solos. And it pissed me off to hear that mediocre guitarist bad mouthing Dream Theater saying they were boring live, and that the crowds didn't want to see that but see a band like them that they could really get into. Well for my money, DT blew everyone off stage in both musicality and stage presence.

Boy, the way metal fans freak out whenever the word "nu-metal" is uttered in the same sentence as their favorite bands/albums. Anyway, I didn't say Demanufacture was a "nu-metal record." I said it helped kickstart nu-metal. That, Roots/Chaos AD, Korn, Real Thing, Vulgar Display Of Power, Burn My Eyes, etc. Those were all albums that influenced the whole nu-metal scene. It's not really their fault that they influenced such a horrible music scene, that's just how it was. Did you know Slipknot even cites Carcass as an influence?

For the record, Demanufacture's one of my favorite metal albums of the 90s.

I would disagee. Nu metal, like Korn and the like owe more to hip-hop than metal. They are rythm based with the same rap type cadence to the vocals. The only thing they share in common with metal is distorted guitar sound.

i actually think that the new album is ok bar that song beginning with C...... (got a burnt copy with no titles) but overall it's alright different but i knew with Archetype they were moving out of their 'demanufacture all over again' zone and heading more mainstream. But you are right, much of the album IS quite slow and boring. Their best song is either Slave Labor, Resurrection or Pisschrist.

Looks like if I want an industrial fix, I'll either listen to earlier FF or put on some Strapping Young Lad.

65/100

Far from beeing a great album, but even farthest to be a bad one. The covers are good, especially Millenium wich is great, and just 1 or 2 songs ruin the rest for me...
Also far from beeing a mainstream album, very very far... It's different and experiemental :roll:

If you'd heard the original Millenium, then you'd know that the cover is pointless.

This album is not different, nor is it experimental. It is not experimental to overuse synths, or have acoustic guitars in a song, or use lots of effects on the vocals. There is nothing 'experimental' about these things.

It's mainstream. Just like Digimortal. I hope it fails like Digimortal, maybe it'd teach FF a lesson.

Sadly, I saw in Metal Hammer that it got 8/10. I weep for the youth of the world.

Well, fuck Metal Hammer.

That's the last time I spend money on that piece-of-fucking-shit rag. I bought this month's issue for Apokalyptic Raidz and the vintage Sepul poster.

All I can say is that the songs sound "anonymous", there's nothing rememberable about the tracklisting like there were in Obsolete and nothing rememberable about the sound like there were in Demanufacture. Listening to it I can only think to my self: So what? Why should I listen to this album?
There are ofcourse a few exceptions, like the opener 540,000 Degrees Fahrenheit wich both sounds good and is interesting.