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groundbreaking.... In 1992, the band released their debut album, Soul of a New Machine. Soon thereafter, because of Fear Factory's endless touring schedule, the group recruited bassist Andrew Shives.

Source:Billboard.com, www.billboard.com/bb/releases/week_5/index.jsp, August 6, 2004.

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• Billboard, August 7, 1999, p. Louis Post-Dispatch, February 29, 1996, p.
  
  Fear Factory is tagged as: industrial metal, metal, death metal, industrial, thrash metal
  
  Fear Factory is an American industrial/groove metal band.

  

  "Our record company saw it as a way to market Fear Factory to a new audience, and people ate it up," added Cazares. Just click on "Add a comment…" below and paste the song name and the lyrics. "Which, in itself, is a cool thing, but we would be more excited if we bridged that gap with one of our own songs. As the band gained even more fans, they toured with big-name acts such as Biohazard, Iron Maiden, and Korn.

  In the meantime, around 1995, Bell joined a side project with Geezer Butler of Black Sabbath.

  Bell, known for his dry, guttural vocal delivery, and Cazares had been friends for years and lived in a large house together with other roommates in Los Angeles. Louis Post-Dispatch."Punks who eschew the likes of hair bands such as Iron Maiden (Fear Factory's unlikely tour mates [in 1996]) are some of the band's most ardent supporters." In 1993, Fear Factory released a second album, Fear Is the Mindkiller, also issued by Roadrunner.

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• Boston Globe, April 9, 1997.
• Los Angeles Times, June 17, 1997; July 1, 1997.
• Melody Maker, January 16, 1999; October 2, 1999.
• St. To see a band so focused, consistent and minimal still sounding like God punching sheet metal in a cathedral can't fail to excite." The Los Angeles-based band became one of the most popular speed metal/industrial acts of the1990s, gathering a loyal following of fans largely by grassroots touring.

  12; March 8, 1996, p. There's four of us in the band--Geezer, myself, Dean Castranova who plays drums for Ozzy [Osbourne], and a guy named Petro Howse who's been a friend of Geezer's for a long time."

  In the midst of exhaustive touring, Fear Factory found time to record a remix EP entitled Remanufacture, released in 1997.

  Regarding his own religious beliefs, Bell commented, as quoted by Rebel Razor, "I'm agnostic really.... From the onset, Fear Factory appealed to rock enthusiasts "who don't like metal, but who still like their rock in violent, disruptive doses," according to Paul Hampel of the St. That same year, the group also joined the Ozzfest tour. The addition of electronic ingredients further increased the group's fanbase.

  Personal conflicts led to the replacement of Shives by Christian Olde-Wolbers in 1994.

  I believe in personal spirituality, but letting a group of people tell you how you should worship or what your spirituality is, is wrong." The lead singer also professed that one should believe in himself first and search for spiritual power from within.