Fear Factory, Industrial/Death Metal (early), Groove/Industrial Metal (later) Options

[Thiarnan]

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Genre(s):
Industrial/Death Metal (early), Groove/Industrial Metal (later)
Lyrical Theme(s):
Technology, Anti-religion, Hate, Society, Sci-Fi
Origin:
United States (Los Angeles, California)
Formed In:
1989-1990 (as Ulceration), 1990 (as Fear the Factory), 1990-2019
Status:
Disputed
Current line-up:
Dino Cazares Guitars (1990-2002, 2009-?), Vocals (backing) (1990-2002)
See also: Asesino, Divine Heresy, Die Klute, Jasta (live), ex-Brujeria, ex-Excruciating Terror (live), ex-BodyBag, ex-Hated... and Proud!, ex-Roadrunner United, ex-The Douche Lords
Burton C. Bell Vocals (1990-?)
See also: Ministry (live), Ascension of the Watchers, ex-Geezer, ex-City of Fire
Mike Heller Drums (2012-?)
See also: Azure Emote, Castrofate, Control/Resist, Cruelty Exalted, Excommunicated, Gorepunch, Malignancy, Raven, WretchedPain, ex-World Under Blood, ex-Zillah, ex-Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky, ex-Disembowel, ex-System Divide
Tony Campos Bass, Vocals (backing) (2015-?)
See also: Asesino, Attika 7, Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters, Max & Iggor Cavalera, Static-X, ex-Brujeria, ex-Dia de los Muertos, ex-Ministry, ex-Possessed, ex-Prong, ex-Soulfly, ex-Agony (live), ex-Cavalera Conspiracy (live), ex-Attika
Former/Past Member(s):
Dave Gibney Bass (1990-1991)
Raymond Herrera Drums, Percussion (1990-2009)
See also: ex-Arkaea, ex-Asesino, ex-Brujeria, ex-Phobia, ex-Burn It All, ex-Kush
Andy Romero Bass (1991-1992)
Andrew Shives Bass (1992-1993)
See also: ex-Lynx, ex-Oblivion
Christian Olde Wolbers Bass, Vocals (backing) (1995-2002), Guitars (2003-2009)
See also: ex-Asphyxia, ex-Arkaea, Beowülf, Burn It All, PowerFlo, Sunflower Dead, ex-Threat Signal (live), ex-Cyclone, ex-Kush, ex-Roadrunner United
Byron Stroud Bass, Vocals (backing) (2003-2012)
See also: Zimmers Hole, ex-Caustic Thought, ex-Strapping Young Lad, ex-Tenet, City of Fire, Imonolith, ex-Devin Townsend, ex-Just Cause (live), ex-3 Inches of Blood (live), ex-Fuel Injected .45, ex-The Ani Kyd Band, ex-Unit:187
Gene Hoglan Drums (2009-2012)
See also: Brendon Small's Galaktikon, Dark Angel, Dethklok, Mechanism, Pitch Black Forecast, Testament, Anthrax (live), ex-Daemon, ex-Meldrum, ex-Strapping Young Lad, ex-Tenet, Death DTA (live), ex-Devin Townsend, ex-Just Cause, ex-Memorain, ex-Viking, ex-Zimmers Hole, ex-Opeth (live), ex-Unearth (live), ex-Forbidden, ex-Death, ex-Wargod, ex-Old Man's Child (live), ex-The Almighty Punchdrunk, ex-The Ani Kyd Band
Matt DeVries Bass, Vocals (backing) (2012-2015)
See also: ex-Chimaira, ex-Nitro (live), ex-Ringworm, ex-Six Feet Under, ex-Lamb of God (live), ex-Unearth (live), ex-Ascension, ex-DescEnsioN
Live musicians:
Past
Reynor Diego Keyboards (1994-1995)
Rhys Fulber Keyboards (1997)
See also: Conjure One, Delerium, Intermix, Front Line Assembly (live), ex-Nailbomb (live)
John Bechdel Keyboards (1998-2004)
See also: Ministry, Ascension of the Watchers, ex-Prong, ex-Murder, Inc., ex-Killing Joke (live)
Tony Jelencovich Vocals (2012)
See also: Death Destruction, Transport League, Icon in Me, ex-C-187, ex-Commander, ex-B-Thong, Iron Shit Snakes, M.A.N., ex-Angel Blake, ex-Outshine, ex-Mnemic (live)
Jessie Sanchez Bass (2014)
See also: Bonded by Blood, Circle of Violence, Black Oil, ex-Holy Grail, ex-Kauze, ex-Warbringer

Additional notes:

Fear Factory first went by the name Ulceration in 1989, which was a song on their supposed first release Concrete. Later they went under the name Fear the Factory (named after a factory near the band's rehearsal place which was guarded by people carrying machine guns), but then decided to stay with the shorter Fear Factory on their demo releases. When they were formed by Dino Cazares and Raymond Herrera, the first song the band ever wrote was "Suffer Age" on the Halloween night in 1990.

Fear Factory started out as a straight-up grindcore/death metal band, being heavily influenced by Napalm Death and other grind/death metal bands. When they recorded the album Soul of a New Machine, they were already influenced by Godflesh, Ministry, Neurosis and other industrial bands, resulting in an original industrial/death metal sound. Many praise Fear Factory as being one of the first death metal acts to incorporate clean vocals in their music, which they were known for during their death metal days. In due time, they became industrial groove/death/thrash metal (Demanufacture), and then invented the "cyber metal" genre (Obsolete through to the present), which was a mix of industrial, thrash, alternative and other influences. After that, the band dropped the death metal influences from their music. At one point, they were industrial groove/nu metal on their album Digimortal, but soon left that sound on Archetype.

Co-founding member of Fear Factory Dino Cazares left the group due to personal problems with Burton Bell. Dino was accused of allowing ego to get in the way of Fear Factory by taking credit for everything they did. Fear Factory had a hard time finding a replacement guitar player, so Christian Wolbers took over guitar duties. Byron Stroud was hired as the new bass player.

On April 7, 2009, Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares announced the formation of a new project with Stroud on bass and drummer Gene Hoglan. On April 28th, this project was revealed to actually be a new version of Fear Factory minus long-time members Wolbers and Herrera. Bell, when asked why Herrera and Wolbers were not included, stated that "[Fear Factory]'s like a business and I'm just reorganizing...we won't talk about [their exclusion]". According to Herrera and Wolbers in a later interview, they had no idea of the "reformation" of Fear Factory and that an ensuing legal battle over the rights to the name was happening since Fear Factory Incorporated is split between the four: Bell, Cazares, Wolbers, and Herrera.

All members of Fear Factory work on many side-projects. One which is quite weird to hear is Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers side project with B-Real Of Cypress Hill and members of Deftones. It's been even rumored that Christian would be a full-time member of Cypress Hill, playing as live bass, but this has yet come true.

Burton C Bell, while Fear Factory was broken up, started a side-project called Ascension of the Watchers with former keyboardist John Bechdel. This project is a progressive folk/ambient project that's nowhere near metal. In the early '90s, Dino and Burton took part in a much forgotten side project during their death metal days called Hated... And Proud!, which was a punk rock band in the vein of groups such as Bad Religion.

Christian has been known to work as a producer with numerous rap acts like Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, Ludacris, and Everlast, and has also collaborated with Soulfly and Devin Townsend, among others.

Although keyboardists are labelled in the band's information as former members, they were never really members of the band. They did session, studio and live keyboards, but were never mentioned in CD booklets or on the band's official website as official members.

Interesting Notes:
When Dino Cazares and Raymond Herrera were looking for band members to recruit for Fear Factory, they met Christian Wolbers through Evan Seinfeld of Biohazard. The band originally was going in and out with bassists, but finally stuck with Christian. He was on vacation in America from his country Belgium at the time, then once Christian was recruited he decided to live in America. The reputed situation in which Raymond and Dino recruited Burton was quite strange for a death metal band: while staying in a hotel, they heard Burton singing a U2 song aloud in the showers and right away went up to his door and got him into the band on the spot.

Former bassist Andrew Shives never actually played on any actual studio records (he was cited as being the bassist for the Soul of a New Machine album, but Dino Cazares played all bass on the album). Andrew only played live and did only one studio session, which was a 7" single called Sangre De Ninos He was later kicked out because of inner disputes with the rest of the band.

Every Fear Factory album released shows a change of their famous "FF" logo. Every FF logo change represents the era of Fear Factory at that time.

Christian Olde Wolbers was the first artist ever allowed to use Dimebag's (Pantera, Damageplan) prototype signature head called the "Krankenstein".

Although the band is from the US, Fear Factory members have diverse backgrounds. Burton is American (Texan), but Christian is originally from Belgium, Dino and Raymond are both Mexican Americans and Byron is Canadian.

As of October, 2019, there's an ongoing lawsuit between Burton C. Bell against Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers.

Compilation Appearances:
- "Self-Immolation" on Breaking Barriers (Roadrunner, 1992)
- "Scapegoat" (Pigfuck mix) on RockHard the Breed Beyond (Roadrunner, 1993)
- "Scapegoat" on Roadrunner Records: New Releases '93 (Roadrunner, 1993)
- "Scapegoat" (Pigfuck remix) on Voice (Roadrunner, 1993)
- "Martyr" on At Death's Door II (Roadrunner, 1993)
- "Scapegoat" on Metal Bestial (Roadrunner, 1994)
- "New Breed" (remix) on Metallurgy (Hard Stuff Division, 1995)
- "Zero Signal" on Mortal Kombat - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (TVT, 1995)
- "New Breed" on Metalmorphosis (Synthetic Symphony, 1996)
- "Resurrection" on St. Valentine's Day Massacre (Melody Maker, 1999)
- "Cloning Technology" on Ginger Snaps (Roadrunner, 2001)
- "Dielectric" on Monsters of Metal (The Ultimate Metal Compilation Vol. 10) (Nuclear Blast, 2016)

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Discography:
Fear Factory & Demolition & F.C.D.N. Tormentor & Resistant Militia - Los Angeles Death Coalition [split] - 1991
Fear Factory - Demo 1 [demo] - 1991
Fear Factory - Demo '91 [demo] - 1991
Fear Factory & Atrocity & Star Star & Gruntruck & Optimum Wound Profile & Sick Of It All - Breaking Barriers [split] - 1992
Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine [full-length] - 1992
Fear Factory & Cynic & Fear Factory & Pestilence & Believer & Treponem Pal - The Breed Beyond [split] - 1993
Fear Factory - Fear Is The Mindkiller [ep] - 1993
Fear Factory - Replica [single] - 1995
Fear Factory - Demanufacture [ep] - 1995
Fear Factory - Demanufacture [full-length] - 1995
Fear Factory - Dog Day Sunrise [single] - 1996
Fear Factory - Machines Of Hate [single] - 1997
Fear Factory - Remanufacture [single] - 1997
Fear Factory - Remanufacture [ep] - 1997
Fear Factory - The Gabber Mixes [ep] - 1997
Fear Factory - Remanufacture [compilation] - 1997
Fear Factory - Burn [ep] - 1997
Fear Factory - Resurrection [single] - 1998
Fear Factory - Shock [single] - 1998
Fear Factory - Revolution [ep] - 1998
Fear Factory - Edgecrusher [single] - 1998
Fear Factory - Obsolete [full-length] - 1998
Fear Factory - Resurrection [ep] - 1998
Fear Factory - Cars [single] - 1999
Fear Factory - Descent [single] - 1999
Fear Factory - Messiah [compilation] - 1999
Fear Factory - Cars [ep] - 1999
Fear Factory - Digimortal [single] - 2001
Fear Factory - Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies) [single] - 2001
Fear Factory - Linchpin - Interactive Cd Sampler [single] - 2001
Fear Factory - Digimortal [full-length] - 2001
Fear Factory - Linchpin [single] - 2001
Fear Factory - Digital Connectivity [video] - 2001
Fear Factory - Concrete [full-length] - 2002
Fear Factory - Hatefiles [compilation] - 2003
Fear Factory - Cyberwaste [single] - 2004
Fear Factory - Archetype [full-length] - 2004
Fear Factory - Archetype [single] - 2004
Fear Factory - Bite The Hand That Bleeds [single] - 2004
Fear Factory - Bite The Hand That Bleeds And Related Archetypal Imagery [video] - 2004
Fear Factory - Moment Of Impact [single] - 2005
Fear Factory - Spinal Compression [single] - 2005
Fear Factory - Super Nova [single] - 2005
Fear Factory - Transgression [full-length] - 2005
Fear Factory - Live On The Sunset Strip [ep] - 2005
Fear Factory - Transgression [single] - 2006
Fear Factory - 15 Years Of Fear Tour [ep] - 2006
Fear Factory - The Best Of Fear Factory [compilation] - 2006
Fear Factory - Powershifter [single] - 2009
Fear Factory - Mechanize [full-length] - 2010
Fear Factory - Recharger [single] - 2012
Fear Factory - The Industrialist [full-length] - 2012
Fear Factory & Lee Groves - Carmageddon Soundtrack [split] - 2012
Fear Factory - The Complete Roadrunner Collection 1992-2001 [boxed set] - 2012
Fear Factory - Soul Hacker [single] - 2015
Fear Factory - Protomech [single] - 2015
Fear Factory - Dielectric [single] - 2015
Fear Factory - Genexus [full-length] - 2015
Fear Factory - Linchpin [compilation] - 2019
Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum [full-length] - 2021

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This post has been edited by Emm Human: Jun 23 2021, 16:42:20

[Persian Gorgr...]

Added + Form Updated:
Fear Factory & Demolition & F.C.D.N. Tormentor & Resistant Militia - Los Angeles Death Coalition [split] - 1991 by t0ffik
Fear Factory - Demo '91 [demo] - 1991 by LightWizard
Fear Factory - Soul Of A New Machine [full-length] - 1992 by Deathmaster
Fear Factory - Fear Is The Mindkiller [ep] - 1993 by Slayer
Fear Factory - Demanufacture [full-length] - 1995 by Deathmaster
Fear Factory - Dog Day Sunrise [single] - 1996 by GoatFucker
Fear Factory - The Gabber Mixes [ep] - 1997 by LightWizard
Fear Factory - Burn [ep] - 1997 by Gerlania
Fear Factory - Remanufacture [compilation] - 1997 by mdmoroz
Fear Factory - Shock [single] - 1998 by Happy666Satan
Fear Factory - Revolution [ep] - 1998 by Tunez
Fear Factory - Obsolete [full-length] - 1998 by Deathmaster
Fear Factory - Resurrection [single] - 1998 by LightWizard
Fear Factory - Descent [single] - 1999 by Happy666Satan
Fear Factory - Messiah [compilation] - 1999 by St6por
Fear Factory - Cars [ep] - 1999 by LightWizard
Fear Factory - Digimortal [full-length] - 2001 by St6por
Fear Factory - Linchpin [single] - 2001 by LightWizard
Fear Factory - Concrete [full-length] - 2002 by Namestnik Satany
Fear Factory - Hatefiles [compilation] - 2003 by Gerlania
Fear Factory - Archetype [full-length] - 2004 by gothik
Fear Factory - Transgression [full-length] - 2005 by gorg
Fear Factory - Live On The Sunset Strip [ep] - 2005 by LightWizard
Fear Factory - 15 Years Of Fear Tour [ep] - 2006 by deminbek
Fear Factory - Mechanize [full-length] - 2010 by MeatWolf
Fear Factory - Recharger [single] - 2012 by NorskBjorn
Fear Factory - The Industrialist [full-length] - 2012 by Akella993
Fear Factory - Soul Hacker [single] - 2015 by aesteticvice
Fear Factory - Protomech [single] - 2015 by Варонъ
Fear Factory - Dielectric [single] - 2015 by Варонъ
Fear Factory - Genexus [full-length] - 2015 by necroscum
Fear Factory - Linchpin [compilation] - 2019 by Necrokilldozer

[Emm Human]

[Kaphiel]

Неужели Дино думает, что Fear Factory это только он? Это как замену Хэтфилду искать.

[Kaphiel]

[Kmetalcore]

супер

[Kaphiel]

Экстрим-вокал нормально, а вот чистый вызывает сомнения...