Fear Factory were the first metal band I got into....Digimortal was the first metal album I ever heard and I thought it rocked at the time.....since then Obsolete has gone down as one of my all-time favourite albums, I think Digimortal sucks, and Demanufacture was very good although slightly repetetive...... Still, I give them an odd spin sometimes because they DID put-out some killer tunes.....though with comparisons in the metal scene I much prefer other industrial-sounding bands like the aforementioned Meshuggah, and also Ebony Tears. Some Cynic goes down well too; FF had a sound that tried to expand on what Cynic did....and failed, hehe...but they were good in thier day. I think it's a good thing they split-up though; I didn't want to hear what they were going to do next after Digimortal. Gah, they had rap on it, what was next? A Britney Spears duet? They were full of themselves....they proclaimed to the world that they thought Digimortal was thier best album to date, and it still sold badly. Haha. Also quite shocking to me was Bell's official statement when he split from Fear Factory; going-on about how he had to find his own way *ahem* as an artist. Now, stop me if i'm wrong, but in my view, Bell was no artist. He didn't write any music, his lyrics were painfully short and of no substance.....and as a vocalist he was really sinking. I personally wouldn't miss him if he didn't reappear in the music scene.
