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Archetype (Fear Factory album)

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Released
  
April 20, 2004

Length
  
59:00

Release date
  
20 April 2004

Recorded
  
December 2003

Artist
  
Fear Factory

Label
  
Liquid 8 Records

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Producer
  
Fear Factory, Rhys Fulber

Archetype(2004)
  
Live on Sunset Strip(2005)

Genres
  
Industrial metal, Thrash metal, Groove metal, Alternative metal

Similar
  
Fear Factory albums, Industrial metal albums

Fear factory archetype full album


Archetype is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band Fear Factory. It was released on April 20, 2004 through Liquid 8. Archetype was also issued in a Limited Edition Digipak with a bonus DVD. Depending on where the digipak was obtained, the bonus DVD is either for their "Australian Tour 2004" and the video for "Cyberwaste" or one entitled "The Making of Archetype". Some, though not all, versions of the bonus digipak also included a gold ticket that gave the owner a chance to meet Fear Factory live.

Contents

Fear factory archetype


Track listing

All lyrics written by Burton C. Bell except "School" by Kurt Cobain; all music composed by Herrera/Wolbers except where noted.

Song interpretations

  • "Slave Labor" contains references to the self-immolation of a person against the corporate world, e.g. Kathy Change.
  • "Cyberwaste" contains references to anonymous Internet users who express haughty opinions only because they are "safe behind the cyberscreen".
  • The title track "Archetype" is directed at then ex-guitarist Dino Cazares: "The infection has been removed/The soul of this machine has improved." Frontman Burton C. Bell has said in an interview that "'Archetype,' defines what Fear Factory is, completely. It has classic Fear Factory parts, and the heavy/melodic vocals, but without being forced or contrived."
  • "Bite the Hand That Bleeds" was used in the film Saw and the music video is a bonus feature on one of the versions of the DVD.
  • "Slave Labor" is featured on UFC: Ultimate Beat Downs, Vol. 1.
  • The album and its title song are referenced in the game Fallout 3 on one of the terminals, where a certain "B. Bell" reports on a terminal that the virus on the "Archetype FF06" mainframe has been cleaned, and that "the infection has been removed, the soul of this machine has improved". The song was also introduced before the release of the album, featured on the computer animated OVA Galerians: Rion but was remixed.

    • Credits

  • Burton C. Bell − vocals
  • Christian Olde Wolbers − guitar, bass, backing vocals
  • Byron Stroud − bass (for live shows)
  • Raymond Herrera − drums
  • John Bechdel − keyboards
  • Jeremy Blair − engineer, augmenting
  • Mike Catain − executive producer, coordination
  • Omer "Impson" R. Cordell − photography
  • Fear Factory − producer, development, visual concept
  • Alain Francois − web design
  • Rhys Fulber − keyboards, programming, devices
  • Torsten Gebhardt − rendering
  • Roger Lian − augmenting
  • Ken "Hi Watt" Marshall − engineer, augmenting
  • Greg Reely − mixing, augmenting
  • Ralph Schrader − coordination, layout design, organizer
  • Shaun Thingvold − augmenting
  • Steve Tushar − augmenting
  • Howie Weinberg − mastering, development

    • Charts

    Album - Billboard (North America)

    Songs

    1Slave Labor3:53
    2Cyberwaste3:18
    3Act of God5:08

    References

    Archetype (Fear Factory album) Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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