Fear Factory - Soul of a New Machine

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Free Music Notes for Soul of a New Machine

Free Music Review: Big God of this Earth...
Hit: 5 Stars

Note- These songs are a lot better if you look at the lyrics while you listen.

Here's what I think of the tracks-

THE FIRST HALF OF THE ALBUM (THE GOOD HALF)

1) Martyr (10/10) Very good opener. The spoken verse at the start is creepy and cool. There's a section about halfway through where the music stops and he sings "Suffer, bastard" repeatedly and I love it.

2) Leechmaster (9/10) Good song, but overrated. About a relationship. There's some awesome singing in the background of the "I loved you once, now go away" is you listen closely.

3) Scapegoat (10/10) The riff to this purely nu-metal. It uses the same 3 chords, and it could have been one of the things that influenced Korn. This song is totally awesome, I love everything about it, especially the awesome singing in the bridge.

4) Crisis (11/10) My favorite death metal track ever recorded, and that includes all of Opeth. An anti-war song with movie samples. The chorus is one of the highlights of the album "Not my war, soldiers marching on".

5) Crash Test (8/10) Not quite as cool as the first 4, has some decent riffage and lyrics. No singing. About scientific experiments done on animals.

6) Flesh Hold (9/10) I don't particularly like most of this song "Wasted life, TASTED!", but the "I want more life, f--ker" sample is AWESOME!

7) Lifeblind (11/10) One of my favorites on the album. Kind of sounds like trashy death metal chaos (with a happier mood) until the chorus, but once the chorus hits, the crowded riffage and drumming ends and they mix screams and singing together, which is another highlight of the album "ALL! (scream) is lost (singing), PAIN! (scream) is lost (singing)" Cool lyrics, very technical.

8) Scumgrief (10/10) The song that convinced me that death metal could be good. More singing than the rest, a dance-ish beat, and a melancholy, depressing mood that is just plain awesome. One of the ones with industrial influence.

9) Natividad (?/10) Don't know what to say, it's kind of just industrial noise.

THE SECOND HALF OF THE ALBUM (THE INCONSISTENT BUT STILL HAS SOME GOOD SONGS HALF)

10) Big God/Raped Souls (10/10) Fantastic. Screamed intro by Burton about the sad state America is in. Blasting riffage with singing in the background "Into the eyes of death...". Slower section where "Ah-ah" is mournfully sung. The end is just chaos.

11) Arise Above Oppresion (5/10) I like the lyrics, but this kind of song is I don't like death metal. The first really bad song on the CD. Screaming over a blast beat and bad tempo changes. The singing at the start is cool, however, and I do think the 1st verse had potential.

12) Self Immolation (11/10) Hell yeah! Death metal over a dance beat. Awesome all the way through. Scary mood "Self Immolation, crying out!". The guitar in the chorus is ingenious.

13) Sufferage (7/10) Awesome creepy intro, but then explodes into another death metal thrash fest like "Arise Above Oppression". Lyrics aren't so great, same kind of trying-to-be-scary garbage death metal lyrics usually are.

14) W.O.E (Weight of Existence) (8/10) Good Lyrics, not really a thrash fest song, just not really memorable. I'm listening to it right now, and I guess the riff is cool and the "Drowning..." part is quite good.

15) Desecrate (8/10) I suppose they suceeded in being menacing with their anti-religious ranting... Not too memorable either, except the "Fill the abyss, with your hatred, slaughter my child, before your eyes".

16) Escape Confusion (9/10) Nice creepy intro again. Some singing. This half's equivalent of Leechmaster. The "Terror, terror..." part is cool. I like it.

17) Manipulation (6/10) See "Arise Above Oppression" and "Sufferage". They could have chosen a much better closer.

Overall, this album is great and was very innovative at the time of its release. Get it as soon as possible, even if you don't like death metal. If you're already an FF fan, don't stay away from it just because it's different from their other albums.

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