A CD which is ahead of its time...Fantastic

Review Score: (10/10)
How could anyone accuse this band of selling out, let alone compare them to Metallica? (Count me out if you must, but Metallica is one of the worst bands out there - I've said that eversince they formed in '81) Fear Factory has it's own sound, it's not Sepultura, it's not Godflesh, it's Fear Factory.

"Obsolete" doesn't just tell a story, some songs are about real issues, starting from Securitron (Police brutality and compromised privacy) Descent is obviously about hopelessness and angst(a very depressing, but melodic track, one of the best on the album) and Hi-Tech Hate is a very hardcore, angry Anti-War song. (So you know the band is politically and socially active). The industrial samples were haunting as were the mournful echoes in the background by Bell. It's a heavy album, not the sort of heavy you hear in "Nu-metal" nowadays so anyone who hasn't heard any song from this band yet will be surprised about what they hear.

Well worth buying. Get this, and any album from Machine Head, for a perfect headbanger combo.

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