Mechanize [Vinyl]

Description

Mechanize features the highly reported reconciliation of vocalist Burton C. Bell with original guitarist Dino Cazares. Along with bassist Byron Stroud (Strapping Young Lad) and journeyman drummer Gene Hoglan (Dethlok, Strapping Young Lad), the album also welcomes back the involvement of keyboardist/producer Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly). The band premiered the album's first,an McFarland-directed video, "Fear Campaign," while hosting MTV2/Headbanger's Ball. Inspired in part by Alvin Toffler's 1984 treatise Third Wave, Mechanize is simply and utterly crushing. From album opener "Industrial Discipline," with its fast rhythms and pinwheeling vocals, to "Fear Campaign," featuring harrowing spoken word passages backed by punishing beats, rapid-fire riffs and ghostly keyboards, Mechanize spectacularly showcases Fear Factory's street-lethal metal.