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专辑歌手：Fear Factory
专辑名称：Mechanize
专辑流派：Groove/Industrial Metal
发行年月：2010.02.05
发行厂牌：Oxidizer/Candlelight Records/AFM-Soulfood/Stomp
压缩码率：260kbps，mp3vbr
压缩大小：87mb
国家语言：美国，英语
相关链接：MySpace|Website|wikipedia|Last.fm
相关简介：
美国著名的工业死金先驱Fear Factory，89年成立，活跃至今已出过8张正式作品，以及大量的EP，个人非常喜欢2001年的那张“Digimortal”，距上张作品的发行，时隔5年，这张最新作品“Mechanize”终于面世，Fear Factory的音乐风格从早期便以凶横狂暴而著称，融合大量的工业合成噪音，阴冷而沉重，新砖延续了乐团一直以来的高水准，质量有保证！！！中文来自：www.mixrnb.cn

FEAR FACTORY是死亡金属界最早推行创新主义的少数几支乐队之一，其音乐融合了工业噪音、电子采样和节奏以及狂暴、杂乱刺耳的吉他声响，从
而创造出复杂多变、阴冷沉重的音乐。毫无疑问，这是一种悲观的、具有逃避倾向的声音，但它恰好表达了高度工业化的现代社会中许多人对生活的感受。猛烈夸张的旋律加上叙事诗般的意境当然会赢得众多的支持者，于是成功显而易见。
“对于我们来说做到这一切都并不容易，”吉他手Dino Cazares回忆说，事实的确如此。乐队成立于1990年的洛杉矶，最初由主唱 Burton C．Bell、吉他手Dino Cazares和鼓手Raymond Herrera组成，其后加入贝司手Andrew Shives。“那时还是艺术摇滚的天下，他们当然不能容忍我们的存在……，我们只能在一些小型的聚会上演出。”但乐手们丝毫不为所动，继续坚持创造属于自己的音乐，并且终于在洛杉矶的Death Metal公司为其发行了两首颇具影响力的单曲之后，与著名的Roadrunner唱片公司签约。1992年，乐队推出首张专辑《Soul Of A New Machine》，它标志着Fear Factory已经成为一支真正的死亡金属乐队，而同年发行的EP《Fear Is The Mind Killer》则更是Fear Factory对其音乐理念的实践和对独立音乐的探索，其后于1995年发行的《Demanufacture》和1997年的EP 《Remanufacture》都是这种创新精神的延续，一直到现在的《Obsolete》。
“这是我们所做过的专辑当中最困难的一张，因为我是在塑造一个传奇故事，” Burton说：“这一直是我们唱片的一个主题，我们的观点是让Fear Factory 的故事一直延续下去。”而《Obsolete》将被证明是一个特别的挑战。“我们并不想重复以前自己所做过的事情，” Dino解释说：“这正是许多乐队失败的原因，他们总是一遍遍地重复着自己的过去，而我们总在做一些新的尝试，不断地寻求突破。对 Fear Factory来说，没有所谓的过去，只有更新的音乐。”

In the early ’90s, many years before Killswitch Engage and Shadows Fall started combining strangled growls with catchy vocal melodies, and Static-X and Rammstein began blended pounding staccato riffs and jackhammer beats with electronic samples, Los Angeles future-thinkers Fear Factory were reinventing both death metal and industrial rock with an arsenal of sonic styles. After releasing four critically acclaimed albums and two industrial remix EPs, selling over a million albums in the process.

Following a grueling tour with Machine Head in 2002, the creative core of Fear Factory imploded due to personal differences and sheer over-exertion. Guitarist and songwriter Dino Cazares went on to play with Brujeria and Asesino and vocalist Burton C. Bell took a few months off before eventually reforming the band and releasing two more records over the next few years. Without Cazares in the mix, however, Fear Factory was missing a key element of its sound and wound up feeling like a shadow of their former selves. “It just didn’t feel complete,” says Bell. “I realized that Dino and I were a real integral part of Fear Factory and we needed each other to make it work, and without the both of us it lost that intensity.”

As time passed, the chance of a reunion between Bell and Cazares seemed less and less likely. Then in April 2008, a full six years after they had last spoken, Bell, then touring with Ministry, ran into Cazares at the band’s Los Angeles show and reopened the lines of communication. “I just said ‘hey, how you doing?’ and it started from there,” Bell says. Not long thereafter Bell and Cazares were jamming again. With bassist Byron Stroud and drummer Gene Hoglan (Dethklok, Strapping Young Lad), Fear Factory was back and ready for action.

The result of their union is a full-fisted blast of passion and innovation that sounds like the missing link between’s 1995’s caustic, groundbreaking Demanufacture and 1998’s more texturally nuanced Obsolete. Thanks in part to the co-production efforts and keyboard programming of Rhys Fulber, who worked on Fear Factory’s industrial remix albums Fear is the Mindkiller and Remanufacture.

The origins of Fear Factory date back to 1990 in Los Angeles, an era rife with political turmoil, racial tension and economic hardship. At the time, Bell and Cazares were living in an eight bedroom community house and were playing in different bands. Bell was wreaking havoc with the industrial noise outfit Hateface and Cazares was in the grindcore group Excruciating Terror. After hearing Bell singing a U2 song in the shower one day and realizing he had a voice as well as a ferocious growl, Cazares asked him if he was interested in jamming. The two formed Ulceration, which evolved into Fear Factory.

The band landed a record deal based on a self-financed recording they made with producer Ross Robinson (Slayer), Concrete, and immediately entered the studio to record their first proper full-length, Soul of a New Machine. Released in 1992 it transformed death metal almost overnight with its blend of throat-abrading screams and melodic vocals, and sci-fi lyrics about a machine that was invented to control and contain mankind.

“A lot of people didn’t get it and really ridiculed us,” Cazares says. “Because of the different vocals some people were like, ‘whoah, this is cool, this is different.’ And other people were like, ‘he’s singing melodically? That shouldn’t be on a fuckin’ death metal record.’ It took a while for more people to catch on to that style of singing, and now it’s everywhere.”

In the six years that have passed since the original Fear Factory splintered, lots of transformation has taken place. Bell has formed the gothic rock band Ascension of the Watchers, which released the album Numinosum on Ministry frontman Al Jourgensen’s 13th Planet Records, and recently formed City of Fire with Stroud. Cazares has put out two Divine Heresy discs and toured extensively. Stroud and Hoglan have recorded and toured with Strapping Young Lad, Zimmer’s Hole and Dethklok. For Bell, the myriad projects have only provided creative ideas and inspiration for Fear Factory.

“In this day and age you gotta keep busy because you can’t just rely on one band,” he says. “That’s something we’ve all learned from time and years of experience. You need to keep busy and keep working. Not only is it good to support yourself, it also keeps you going creatively.”

While both Bell and Cazares agree that it’s sometimes hard to juggle all the projects they’re working on, they’ve both got Fear Factory on the front-burner and they’re as excited about the band again as they were in the early ’90s. Moreover, they’re approaching it with a new level of maturity and professionalism.

“We’ve all changed a bit as people over the years,” Bell says. “We’ve developed patience and we’ve had some humbling experiences. And when those things happen you realize that the types of battles we had in the past are just a waste of time. And time is precious.”

专辑试听：

专辑曲目：
1. Mechanize
2. Industrial Discipline
3. Fear Campaign
4. Powershifter
5. Christploitation
6. Oxidizer
7. Controlled Demolition
8. Designing The Enemy
9. Metallic Division
10. Final Exit

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