'' is the debut
Album (not counting the
1991 and later released in
2002 album ''
Concrete '') by the
Los Angeles Death Metal /
Industrial band
Fear Factory . It was released on
August 25 ,
1992 .
Guitarist
Dino Cazares has once said this album is a concept album. It is about man creating the machine that could be either technological or government. The machine would play a role in the later
Fear Factory concept albums. The sound of this album is different than the later albums for this one featured more of a death metal and
Grindcore sound.
While Fear Factory's main concept is man vs. machine, this album featured different themes. "Martyr" is about how
Burton C. Bell was bored with his life style, "Leechmaster" and "Manipulation" are about relationship troubles, "Scapegoat" was based on how Cazares was once wrongfully accused by the law, "Crisis" is an anti-war song, "Crash Test" is a stab at experiments being done on animals and "Suffer Age" is based on
Serial Killer ,
John Wayne Gacy . The other songs contain different themes as well.
The album was remastered and re-released in 2004, packaged together with the remastered ''
Fear Is The Mindkiller ''.
Many feel this album is ground breaking as this is the first album to mix
Death Grunt s with clean singing.
The album shares its title with ''
The Soul Of A New Machine '' by
Tracy Kidder , which won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1982.
# "Martyr"
# "Leechmaster"
# "Scapegoat"
# "Crisis"
# "Crash Test"
# "Flesh Hold"
# "Lifeblind"
# "Scumgrief"
# "Natividad"
# "Big God"/"Raped Souls"
# "Arise above Oppression"
# "Self Immolation"
# "Suffer Age"
# "W.O.E."
# "Desecrate"
# "Escape Confusion"
# "Manipulation"
