DEMANUFACTURE

'''Demanufacture''' is the second official album (not counting the previous EP ''Fear is the Mindkiller'') by the Los Angeles industrial metal band Fear Factory. It was released in June of 1995. This is the band's first album with their classic line-up adding new bassist Christian Olde Wolbers. Many regard it as the band's magnum opus and a heavy metal classic^[1][2][3].
The album was certified Gold in Australia by ARIA.

Contents

Concept

Mixing

Misbeliefs about drums

Track listing

2005 Remastered Edition

CD# 1 bonus tracks

CD# 2 tracks

Charts

Miscellanea

References

Concept

''Demanufacture'' is purported to be a concept album about a man's struggles against a machine-controlled government, with each song a chapter in his life. The band stated the album took its inspiration from the movie, The Terminator^[4].

Mixing

This album originally had two mixes. They were by Greg Reely and the other by Colin Richardson. Because many felt Reely's mix was the best as it captured the electronic elements more than Richardson's mix, which was more fixated on the guitars, Richardson's mix was rejected. The mix we hear now is Reely's mix. The Richardson mix of "Zero Signal" and "Body Hammer" can be found on the ''Hatefiles'' compilation.

Misbeliefs about drums

After the release of the album, some critics and observers suggested that drummer Raymond Herrera had in fact used a drum machine, due to the often blistering speed and machine-like precision of the drumming, most notably on the bass drums. He records, however, with a click track to keep time^[5]. He is also known to use triggers on his drum sets for the purpose of keeping the sound of his drums, particularly bass drums, consistent regardless of how hard they are struck. This is a common strategy used by metal drummers when playing at such speeds, as relatively few drummers are able to achieve such rapid and consistent notes without the use of triggers.

Track listing

#"Demanufacture" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 4:13
#"Self Bias Resistor" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:12
#"Zero Signal" (Cazares/Herrera) – 5:57
#"Replica" (Cazares/Herrera) – 3:56
#"New Breed" (Cazares/Herrera) – 2:49
#"Dog Day Sunrise" (Head of David cover) – 4:45
#"Body Hammer" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:05
#"Flashpoint" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 2:53
#"H-K (Hunter-Killer)" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:17
#"Pisschrist" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 5:25
#"A Therapy for Pain" (Bell/Cazares/Herrera) – 9:43
#"Your Mistake" (Agnostic Front cover) – 1:30
★
#"¡Resistancia!" – 2:55
★
#"New Breed (Revolutionary Designed Mix)"
★ - 2:59
#"Replica (Electric Sheep Mix)"
★ - 3:58

★ Tracks 1-4, marked with an asterisk, are Limited Edition Digipak (released on Nov 7, 1995) bonus tracks.

★ Some countries, including Canada, did not get Replica (Electric Sheep Mix) as a bonus track.

★ The original digipaks had slightly different artwork, most noticeably a different barcode on the front cover, and different colouring within the words Fear Factoy.

★ The digipak was re-released in 2003 with all bonus tracks mentioned above, but with the new Roadrunner Records logo on the front and back and different lettering on the spine. This version is not limited, but has since been replaced by the remastered edition detailed below. In all, four different digipak versions of the album are available.

2005 Remastered Edition

The album was remastered and re-released on June 7, 2005 in a digipak edition, with new bonus tracks and the remastered ''Remanufacture - Cloning Technology'' as the second disc.

CD# 1 bonus tracks

#"Your Mistake" (Agnostic Front cover) – 1:30
#"¡Resistancia!" – 2:55
#"Concreto" - 3:30
#"New Breed (Revolutionary Designed Mix)" - 2:59
#"Manic Cure" - 5:09
#"Flashpoint (Chosen Few Mix)" - 4:09

CD# 2 tracks

#"Remanufacture" - 6:43
#"National Panel Beating" - 4:38
#"Genetic Blueprint" - 4:23
#"Faithless" - 5:25
#"Bionic Chronic" - 0:33
#"Cloning Technology" - 5:52
#"Burn" - 5:06
#"T-1000" - 4:07
#"Machines of Hate" - 5:50
#"21st Century Jesus" - 7:19
#"Bound for Forgiveness" - 6:02
#"Refinery" - 3:02
#"Cyberdyne" - 4:28
#"Refueled" - 4:37
#"Transgenic" - 5:42
#"New Breed (Spoetnik Mix)" - 3:52

Charts

'Album' - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1995	Heatseekers	26

Miscellanea

★ Though the album was written largely before Christian Olde Wolbers had joined, and though Dino Cazares played bass on several tracks, Olde Wolbers later stated in an interview in 2004 that he made a small contribution to the writing of the title track and "Pisschrist."^[6]

★ The music for "A Therapy For Pain" was originally written as the opening for "Echoes of Innocence" from the then unreleased ''Concrete'' demo.

★ Several songs from this album were used without lyrics for the game Carmageddon.

★ The song "Zero Signal" was featured on the soundtrack to the movie ''Mortal Kombat'' and can be heard in part during the fight scene between Scorpion and Johnny Cage.

★ The opening riff of the title track was voted 19th in Total Guitar's list of "The Heaviest Riffs of all Time."

★ The opening sample from "Pisschrist" is taken from "Terminator 2: Judgment Day".

★ The bands then-unreleased first album "Concrete" also had a track named "Piss Christ", but the two bear no similarities other than the title.

★ During the filimg of their single Replica, Raymond Herrera said one of the only things he remembered about the day, was having peach cobbler.

References

1. The Final Word - Review of Fear Factory - ''Remanufacture'' Graham Reed
2. Epinions - Review of ''Demanufacture'' [Limited] by Fear Factory Mark Hodges
3. Rate Your Music - Reviews and Ratings of ''Demanufacture'' by Fear Factory
4. ICONS OF FRIGHT - Fright Exclusive Interview with Burton C. Bell
5. Indie File - Interview with Dino Cazares Chris Ayers
6. FearFactoryFans.com - Interview Houston Texas - Part II Christian Olde Wolbers Stephen S. Rhoney