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Album Information

  Name Soul of a New Machine
  Type Album
  Artist Fear Factory
  Cover Fear Factory Soul of a New Machinejpg
  Released August 25 , 1992
  Recorded May , 1992
  Genre Death Metal <br /> Industrial Metal
  Label Roadrunner Records
  Producer Colin Richardson
  Last Album
  This Album '''''Soul of a New Machine'''''<br />(1992)
  Next Album '' Fear Is The Mindkiller ''<br />(1993)


''Soul of a New Machine'' is the debut Album (not counting the originally unreleased 1991 album '' Concrete '') by the Los Angeles Death Metal / Industrial Metal band Fear Factory . It was released on August 25 , 1992 .

Guitarist Dino Cazares has stated that this album is a Concept Album , concerning man's creation of a machine that could be either technological or governmental. It was also confirmed by bassist Christian Olde Wolbers in an interview1. The machine-human connection would play a more prominent role in the later Fear Factory concept albums.

The sound of this album is different from the later albums for it was heavily influenced by Napalm Death and Godflesh , therefore this one featured more of a death metal and Grindcore sound. Many feel this album is ground breaking as this is the first album to mix Death Grunt s with Clean Vocals 23.

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 lifestyle; "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" concerns Animal Testing and "Suffer Age" is based on Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy . The other songs contain different themes as well. Samples from the movies Full Metal Jacket , Blade Runner and Apocalypse Now are heard sporadically throughout the album.

The album was remastered and re-released on October 5 , 2004 in a Digipak , packaged together with the remastered '' Fear Is The Mindkiller '' EP .


TRACK LISTING

# "Martyr" – 4:06
# "Leechmaster" – 3:54
# "Scapegoat" – 4:33
# "Crisis" – 3:45
# "Crash Test" – 3:46
# "Flesh Hold" – 2:31
# "Lifeblind" – 3:51
# "Scumgrief" – 4:07
# "Natividad" – 1:04
# "Big God"/"Raped Souls" – 2:38
# "Arise Above Oppression" – 1:51
# "Self Immolation" – 2:46
# "Suffer Age" – 3:40
# "W.O.E." – 2:33
# "Desecrate" – 2:35
# "Escape Confusion" – 3:58
# "Manipulation" – 3:29

All lyrics written by Burton C. Bell , except for "Arise Above Oppression" which was written by Bell/ Dino Cazares and "Suffer Age" and "Escape Confusion" which were written by Cazares. All music by Dino Cazares.


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MISCELLANEA

  • Then-bassist Andrew Shives only played live with the group; the bass tracks on the album were performed by Dino Cazares. In 1993 Fear Factory released a 7" single under their Spanish name Factorio De Miedo called Sangre De Ninos. This is the only material that was ever recorded in a studio with Andrew Shives on bass. He was forced to leave the band due to some internal disputes and was replaced by Christian Olde Wolbers in 1994 .

  • The album shares its title with '' The Soul Of A New Machine '' by Tracy Kidder , which was released in 1981 and won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1982 .

  • "Natividad" is considered an Instrumental , but technically, it's just the sound of things being crushed and smashed. The track is a dedication to Dino's father.



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