Track Listing

1. What Will Become?
2. Damaged
3. Digimortal
4. No One
5. Linchpin
6. Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies)
7. Acres of Skin
8. Back the F*** Up
9. Byte Block
10. Hurt Conveyor
11. (Memory Imprints) Never End

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #111451 in Music
• Released on: 2001-04-24
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Amazon.com
Fear Factory's fourth album, Digimortal, finds the hirsute Los Angeles industrial-metal band happening on a theme that they've been alluding to throughout their existence. Digimortal is a concept album about the synthesis of man and machine, its 11 tracks serving up a mish-mash of screaming electronics and punishing low-end death-metal dynamics. Guitarist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera served tenure in the none-more-metal terrorist troupe Brujeria shortly before the release of Digimortal, but straight-ahead metal antics have not dulled Fear Factory's silicon edge; the scattershot riffage of "Damaged" is undercut by furious, distorted synth-lines, and the hyper-tense "No One" offers up sirens straight from the Chemical Brothers' box of old-school rave machinery. While there's nothing quite as startling as the title track from 1999's Obsolete (which featured vocals from synth pioneer Gary Numan), the beatbox-based "Back the F**k Up," featuring Cypress Hill's B-Real, stands head and shoulders above the ham-fisted rap-rock fusion peddled by many of Fear Factory's peers. --Louis Pattison

Customer Reviews

Digimortal
You know, Fear Factory used to be my favorite band... until this album. it's really sad how some bands sell out and become weak just to make money, isn't it? I had very high expectations when I bought it, but when I actually started playing it for the first time, I took it out of my CD player and replaced it with Demanufacture. let me say this: if you're into the rap-rock genre like Limp Bizkit or Korn or anything like that, by all means, buy this album. if you actually like GOOD music, on the other hand, such as earlier FF, Death Metal, and Black Metal, buy something else. If they keep going in this direction, they will lose all of the fans that put them where they are.

Fear Factory's swansong..."Digimortal"...
By now everybody has heard the somewhat dissapointing news of Fear Factory's break-up...It was bound to happen and "Digimortal" was their cue for disbanding...As a huge fan of FF, I was very amazed but very dissapointed with the release of "Digimortal". It had the Fear Factory sound, but the cybernetic and futuristic vibe was not there. That to me represented what Fear Factory was all about. The few songs that are great really are great and definately standout as a testimony what Fear Factory had built itself upon. Burton C. Bell's vocals are still amazing, and Raymond Herrera's drumming is still in fine shape...but Dino's lack of brutality and Christian's dull-sounding bass is what brought this album down. The lyrics are very simple and not that nerve-striking as on their first 2 albums. The song "Back The Fxxk Up" is really a huge dissapointment..I guess Fear Factory needed to cash in on the whole Rap-Metal/Nu-Metal trend that they help create, yet never really got the respect for. Still songs like "What Will Become?", "Acres Of Skin", and the damn-good "Invisible Wounds(Dark Bodies)" are their last few songs that fans can enjoy for years to come. Fear Factory is no more, and now their legacy of quality music now lies amongst other great bands such as Death(R.I.P. Chuck Schuldiner), Carcass, Brutal Truth, Possessed, and Terrorizer...and thus answers the question in the lyrics of the song "Linchpin"..."We will never see the end"...Hopefully never see the end of great quality bands such as Fear Factory.

Here is an example of excelent Industrial Metal.
If taste didn't exist, neither would variety. Yes, it's true: Fear Factory has definitely change directions since "Soul of a New Machine". After all, that album was pure death-metal, with barely any extra industrial spice. In my opinion, that disk was all-out DM, and eventhough some songs are good, we would never be able to compare it against the likes of Sepultura or Pestilence. Hell, some songs in there even sound like fillers. It's the industrial and techno notes that add the interesting flavour to Fear Factory; thus when Demanufacture was released it was such a rush. Obsolete came next, and the techno base grew, along with the amount of singing instead of growling, and some other interesting addings, like "Edge-Crusher" rap-metal approach. Coming to the present we have Digimortal. By far, I haven't found anything to call bad on the album. True, it's not Death Metal as before, but it isn't as soft as Obsolete either. Personaly, I see in this album their best combination of metal with techno and industrial. Now, why do I dare contradict the opinion of the other so-called "metalists" that write comments here? Simple: musicianship. Anyone that knows of musicianship knows that in metal, the best music is not the hardest, nor the speediest. It's the music that is performed to perfection, no matter the speed, hardness, intensity, variation of rythms nor anything else. This disk is very consistent in terms of speed and intensity...perhaps not in hardness, but it is in power. It's a concept album about the future posibility of "encapulating" the mind's thougts into a digital chip, process that would allow the person to "extend" his life by adding his memory to another body. The question that remains would be: what about the soul?. This theme is analized throughout the album (reason for it to be a concept album, which is not something easy to build) with the usual darkness that could acompany the rest of the musical atmosphere. Burton's singing as usual is terrific on both sides: hard-edged and crunchy during the intense moments of the songs, soft and melodic when the music has gone low tempo. And Raymond's drumming...DAMN!!!...Whoever tells me that Raymond's double-kick drumming got slower deserves a beating! Still as impressive as usual, and definitely one of Metal's faster feet (right next to Lombardo of course). So then, my recomendation to the buyers: if you're a Death Metal fan and afraid of changes in the direction of the musical style, thus proving yourselves to be an obtuse bunch that's afraid of the word "Change", then don't buy this album. On the other hand, if you're like me, and enjoy changes in style that are overall consistent and perfectly combined in melodics and tempo, and love the tightness of the construction, then you'll love this CD.