Soul of a New Machine

Soul of a New Machine is the debut album (not counting the 1991 and later released in 2002 album Concrete) by the Los Angeles death metal/industrial band Fear Factory. It was released on August 25, 1992.

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Album - 1991 - 2002 - Concrete - Los Angeles - Death metal - Industrial - Fear Factory - August 25 - 1992

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Guitarist Dino Cazares has once said this album is a concept album. It's about man creating the machine that could be either technological or government. The machine would play a role in the later Fear Factory concept albums. The sound of this album is different than the later albums for this one featured more of a Death Metal and Grindcore sound.

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Dino Cazares - Fear Factory - Death Metal - Grindcore

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While Fear Factory's main concept is man vs. machine, this album featured different themes. "Matyr" is about how Burton C. Bell was bored with his life style, "Leechmaster" and "Manipulation" are about relationship troubles, "Scapegoat" was based on how Cazares was once wrongfully accused by the law, "Crisis" is an anti-war song, "Crash Test" is a stab at experiments being done on animals and "Suffer Age" is based on serial killer, John Wayne Gacy. The other songs contain different themes as well.

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Burton C. Bell - Serial killer - John Wayne Gacy

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The album was remastered and re-released in 2004, packaged together with the remastered Fear is the Mindkiller.

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Many feel this album is ground breaking as this is the first album to mix death grunt's with clean singing.

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The album shares its title with The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder, which won a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award in 1982.

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