Fear Factory

California's Fear Factory formed in 1989 and over the course of the 1990s became hugely influential, blazing a path for turn-of-the-millennium alternative metal like Korn and Deftones. Originally playing a brutal take on death metal that verged on grindcore – death metal growls, contrasted with clean vocals, remained a key element of their sound – they began a lifetime flirt with industrial aesthetics on their 1992 debut Soul of a New Machine. Noisy samples and the mechanically precise playing of drummer Raymond Herrera defined their sound in the years that followed; by the end of the 1990s they had released two albums and played alongside Black Sabbath, Slayer, Iron Maiden and Megadeth. Fear Factory split up in 2006; a new version of the lineup was formed in 2009, and after a series of personnel rotations, the sole original member left in the band is guitarist Dino Cazares.

About Fear Factory

California's Fear Factory formed in 1989 and over the course of the 1990s became hugely influential, blazing a path for turn-of-the-millennium alternative metal like Korn and Deftones. Originally playing a brutal take on death metal that verged on grindcore – death metal growls, contrasted with clean vocals, remained a key element of their sound – they began a lifetime flirt with industrial aesthetics on their 1992 debut Soul of a New Machine. Noisy samples and the mechanically precise playing of drummer Raymond Herrera defined their sound in the years that followed; by the end of the 1990s they had released two albums and played alongside Black Sabbath, Slayer, Iron Maiden and Megadeth. Fear Factory split up in 2006; a new version of the lineup was formed in 2009, and after a series of personnel rotations, the sole original member left in the band is guitarist Dino Cazares.

Genres: Metal, Industrial metal, Death metal, Groove metal

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