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11.11.2008

RR UNITED CONCERT CLIP EXCLUSIVE

Check out Jamey Jasta, Paul Gray, and Dino talking about NYC hardcore!

Get the exclusive clip HERE!

TOMORROW: Roy Mayorga, Dino, Andreas Kisser, Robb Flynn, and Scott Ian video clip! Check back for the link!

MISSED A CLIP? Check out the past clips here on RoadrunnerRecords.com at this location.

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11.04.2008

THE GAUNTLET: HOW A LABEL COULD DO THIS

TheGauntlet.com has posted an exclusive clip from the upcoming Roadrunner United Concert DVD (out December 9th). Watch Corey Taylor, Dino, and Scott Ian talk about the project.

You can watch all the clips rolled out so far right here and visit often to see the new ones as they come out.

Tune in tomorrow for new clips at FYE.com and Roadrunner Records!

Tags: Fear Factory, Slipknot, Stone Sour, concert dvd, exclusive, The Gauntlet, video
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11.04.2008

FEAR FACTORY UPDATED!

Hallo Roadrunner fans! Just wanted to let you know we've added some more content to the site. Right now we've got a huge playlist for Fear Factory up at the Fear Factory artist page. You'll find streaming tracks from all of their RR releases.

That's not all, of course. You can stream and comment on each track individually, rate them, or take them with you to your MySpace page. Take a look at the "Replica" page for an example.

We were also missing a couple of releases. You can review and rate Obsolete here, or do the same for Fear is the Mindkiller here.

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10.27.2008

BRIAN FAIR GETS BLASTED AT ROADRUNNER UNITED

TheGauntlet is premiering our next Roadrunner United Concert DVD clip exclusively right now. Check out Brian Fair blasted as the Corey Taylor, Dino, Robb Flynn, Joey Jordison, Travis Smith, and Killswitch Engage discuss.

Watch the video here.

The Roadrunner United Concert DVD comes out on December 9th, 2008. To see all the clips released so far, visit the first clip's video page.

There are twenty more clips coming down the line, with another premiering today at Decibel, and two later in the week at LambGoat and Amazon.

Tags: Fear Factory, Killswitch Engage, Machine Head, ROADRUNNER UNITED THE CONCERT, Slipknot, Trivium, concert dvd, exclusive, video
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10.25.2008

MORE RR UNITED CLIPS COMING OCTOBER 27TH

This Monday you'll be treated to two more exclusive clips from the Roadrunner United Concert DVD, out December 9th, 2008.

First up at The Gauntlet is a great three minute clip featuring Brian Fair, Corey Taylor, Dino, Robb Flynn, Joey Jordison, Travis Smith, and Killswitch Engage. This one's fantastic because you see Brian incredibly drunk attempting to stage dive, and a whole lotta discussion about favorite Max Cavalera music.

Over at Decibel you'll see a rad clip of Glen Benton and Corey Taylor. Glen...well, Glen had this costume, you see...and Corey goes into some of his personal history enjoying Deicide.

Check out all the clips released so far, and visit often to see when new ones are added, at this location.

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Fear Factory may have recently passed on into heavy metal history following their latest album Digimortal, but the band's legacy lives on not only in their catalog, which includes the gold-certified Obsolete, but in the forthcoming release of their never-before heard album Concrete, produced by heavy music guru Ross Robinson.

On July 30th (2002), fans of the Southern California metal band will take a journey back to a time when the quartet was just beginning to develop its cutting-edge, death metal-meets-industrial sound. (And when drummer Raymond Herrera was still in high school!) Amazingly, the long-lost Concrete has never been leaked out in bootleg form or proliferated on the Internet, so it is a genuine surprise release.

"I'm very happy about it coming out," beams Fear Factory co-founder and guitarist Dino Cazares." It's something special for the kids, who never even heard it. They can see where we were coming from. Back then, we were gigging in East L.A. We didn't really have too much recording under our belts. We had recorded a couple of demos before that, but we had never worked with a producer like Ross Robinson."

Recorded in 1991, barely a year after Fear Factory formed, Concrete is important for several reasons. Firstly, it established the band as a viable player in the metal world. While ultimately the group did not want to sign with Robinson's label, Fear Factory would use the 16-track release as a way to secure a deal with Roadrunner Records. Producer Ross Robinson, who later sold the album to Roadrunner, would use it as a calling card to produce future stars like Korn and Limp Bizkit. The album also offers a history lesson for people. Vocalist Burton C. Bell brought a melodious style to the death metal world, and influences such as Godflesh and Ministry would propel the band into the industrial and techno realms without losing their core audience.

"At the time [of Concrete], all these death metal bands were coming out, and a lot of people were afraid to cross those boundaries," recalls Cazares. "Fear Factory was a band about taking chances. Not all those chances worked,&rdquo but at least they pushed the envelope as much as they could. While Fear Factory delved into technological realms, they were not able to do so right from the start. "At the time, we didn't have money to experiment with that," remarks Cazares, but he confirms that the intentions were already there, and they began manifesting themselves on the 1993 release Fear Is The Mindkiller.

"Me and Ross bumped heads a couple of times on the whole digital thing," recalls Herrera of the Concrete sessions. &ldquoAs you know by now, Ross isn't very up into the high-tech production stuff. He likes the raw analog stuff, which is cool. I ended up not getting my way [then], but I did later,&rdquo he remarks with a laugh. Adds Cazares: "Honestly, I think Concrete sounded better than Soul Of A New Machine. Ross is really good at capturing the moment."

Metal aficionados may find it amusing to learn that Concrete was recorded at Blackie Lawless' studio, where Robinson was then employed as an engineer. "It looked like a cowboy ranch," says Cazares. "Everything was all wood. There were cowboy hats, guns, skulls, and cow heads. It was cool." While the band officially recorded drums and vocals during the day, close friends Cazares and Robinson snuck in at night to record guitar and bass tracks, which explains why Dino says the $5,000 album has a $10,000 sound. "Maybe someday we can pay back Blackie Lawless," he says with a laugh. "I'd like to thank him very much for letting us record there! We borrowed some of Blackie's bass equipment to record the bass, without him knowing it. And now he will. Blackie, if you're listening, I'm sorry!"

Eight of Concrete's sixteen tracks were re-recorded for the band's official 1992 Roadrunner Records debut Soul Of A New Machine. Four more have never been heard before: "Sangre De Ninos," "Deception," "Anxiety," and "Ulceration". Other songs are presented in their original forms before they mutated into, or became a part of, other songs. "Concrete" transformed into "Concreto" as a bonus track on 1998's Obsolete, "Soulwomb" became "Soulwound" for that same release, while the instrumental "Echoes Of Innocence" metamorphosed into "A Therapy For Pain" for 1995's Demanufacture. Then there is "Piss Christ," an entirely different song than the one heard on Demanufacture.

Herrera notes of the four unreleased songs that "we never even went back and tried to fix or update them." They represent early, raw Fear Factory, pre-sampling and pre-keyboards. "There wasn't a huge budget to do it,&rdquo the drummer says of the album. "We were all beginners." But he makes no apologies. "It is what it is."

Quite simply, Concrete represents the genesis of one of SoCal's biggest metal groups. "It shows where the band came from," affirms Herrera. "This CD is the roots of Fear Factory."

Roadrunner Discography

Format: CD
Release Date: 09.26.2006

The Best Of Fear Factory

Listen to the evolution of Fear Factory on one album!

From their brutal early days to their transformation into the techno-metal powerhouses we've come to love, it's all here! The Best Of Fear Factory includes such trademark songs as &quotReplica," &quotLinchpin," and their smash hit cover of Gary Numan's &quotCars." Buy The Best Of Fear Factory on September 26th or the Edgecrusher will come knocking down your door!

Tracks:

1. Martyr [ listen/comment ]
2. Scapegoat [ listen/comment ]
3. Scumgrief
4. Demanufacture [ listen/comment ]
5. Self-Bias Resistor
6. Zero Signal
7. Replica [ listen/comment ] [ listen/comment ]
8. Shock [ listen/comment ]
9. Edgecrusher
10. Resurrection
11. Cars [ listen/comment ]
12. Linchpin

Format: CD
Release Date: 06.07.2005

Demanufacture [RR 25th Anniversary Reissue]

Fear Factory never sounded better than on this landmark 1995 release. Not only did their songwriting take a huge jump up from their debut album, but Burton C. Bell greatly expanded his vocal range, utilizing a new found heavy voice that sounded tough as opposed to brutal, and it was the main factor in why the band were able to break out of the narrow confines of the death metal graveyard and gain exposure to a whole new audience.

The re-issue 2 disc digi-pack of Demanufacture features Remanufacture with rare mixes, out-takes,and unreleased music.

Tracks:

Disc: 1
1. Demanufacture [ listen/comment ]
2. Self Bias Resistor
3. Zero Signal
4. Replica [ listen/comment ] [ listen/comment ]
5. New Breed
6. Dog Day Sunrise
7. Body Hammer
8. Flashpoint
9. H-K (Hunter-Killer)
10. Piss Christ
11. Therapy for Pain
12. Your Mistake
13. ¡ Resistancia !
14. Concerto
15. New Breed [Revolutionary Designed Mix]
16. Manic Cure
17. Flashpoint [Chosen Few Mix][#][*]

Disc: 2
1. Remanufacture
2. National Panel Beating
3. Genetic Blueprint
4. Faithless
5. Bionic Chronic
6. Cloning Technology
7. Burn
8. T-1000
9. Machines of Hate
10. 21st Century Jesus
11. Bound for Forgiveness
12. Refinery
13. Cyberdyne
14. Refueled [ listen/comment ]
15. Transgenic
16. New Breed [Spoetnik Mix]

Format: CD
Release Date: 10.05.2004

Soul Of A New Machine / Fear Is The Mindkiller (reissue)

When Roadrunner Records issued Fear Factory's "unreleased" first album, Concrete, in 2002, it marked the close of a long-incomplete chapter in the early history of this groundbreaking band. But as significant as that album was historically, it was even more important for another reason: it led Fear Factory to a deal with Roadrunner Records and the recording of their "official" debut album, Soul Of A New Machine, unleashing a new force in the world of metal. Combining both metal and industrial elements, Fear Factory laid a groundwork on Soul Of A New Machine and their subsequent remix album Fear Is The Mindkiller (also included on this expanded remaster), not only for their follow-up albums - but also for a whole new wave of bands such as Filter, Static-X and Stabbing Westward. With this newly expanded, remastered edition, you can once again experience both the sheer brutality and inescapable beauty of this prototypical metal masterpiece.

Tracks:

1. Martyr [ listen/comment ]
2. Leechmaster
3. Scapegoat [ listen/comment ]
4. Crisis
5. Crash Test
6. Flesh Hold
7. Lifeblind
8. Scumgrief
9. Natividad
10. Big God/Raped Souls
11. Arise Above Oppression
12. Self Immolation
13. Suffer Age
14. W.O.E.
15. Desecrate
16. Escape Confusion
17. Manipulation

Format: CD
Release Date: 04.08.2003

Hatefiles

A Fear Factory collection of rarities, b-sides and remixes. The complete track listing is as follows:

Tracks:

01. Terminate
02. Frequency
03. Demolition Racer
04. Machine Debaser
05. Invisible Wounds (The Suture Mix)
06. Edgecrusher (Urban Assault Mix)
07. Descent (Falling Deeper Mix)
08. Body Hammer (Colin Richardson Mix)
09. Zero Signal (Colin Richardson Mix)
10. Resurrection (T.L.A. Big Rock Mix)
11. Cars [ listen/comment ] (Numanoid Mix)
12. Dark Bodies (demo)
13. Replica [ listen/comment ] [ listen/comment ] (live)
14. Cyberdyne
15. Refueled [ listen/comment ]
16. Transgenic
17. Manic Cure
18. New Breed (Spoetnik Mix)

Format: CD
Release Date: 07.30.2002

Concrete

Fear Factory may have recently passed on into heavy metal history, but the band's legacy lives on - not only in their catalog, but in the forthcoming release of their never-before heard album Concrete.

Journey back to when this SoCal metal act was just beginning...hell, back when drummer Raymond Herrera was still in high school. Recorded in 1991, just about 1 year after the band formed, this 16 song recording secured Fear Factory a deal with Roadrunner, and was the start of a very bright future for a then unknown Ross Robinson.

16 tracks in total: 8 of which were re-recorded for 1992's Soul Of A New Machine debut, 4 of which have never been heard, and 4 which later morphed into other songs.

Tells guitarist Dino Cazares, "Honestly, I think Concrete sounded better than Soul Of A New Machine. Ross is really good at capturing the moment."

Tracks:

1. Big God/Raped Souls
2. Arise Above Oppression
3. Concrete
4. Crisis
5. Escape Confusion
6. Sangre De Ninos
8. Echoes Of Innocence
9. Dragged Down By The Weight Of Existence
10. Deception
11. Desecrate
12. Suffer Age
13. Anxiety
14. Self Immolation
15. Pisschrist
16. Ulceration

Format: DVD
Release Date: 01.15.2002

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Digital Connectivity - dvd

A celebration of ten years of Fear Factory

This is a piece truly for the fans. Herein you will be walked through the life of Fear Factory from day 1 playing backyard parties, to playing clubs, then festivals, and up until the current Digimortal tour.

This is very real footage. Everything you could possibly expect - all the videos, 11 live performances, 8 new & rare audio tracks, complete discography, home video footage (including 'tour bus' footage), mementos from the years, and more.

Again, this is for the fans...

Format: CD
Release Date: 04.24.2001

Digimortal

Fear Factory's 10 years of slow, steady progress - hard work and self-professed 'baby steps' - has brought their art to a whole new level, making their newest creation, DIGIMORTAL, one of 2001's most anticipated albums. "Everything is thought out with Fear Factory, everything has a purpose," says frontman Burton C. Bell. Fear Factory provoke some serious thought and plant the seeds of their dark, brooding view of the future in the minds of their fans. The band's signature sound of combining melody with heavy riffs has progressed considerably on DIGIMORTAL. DIGIMORTAL IS the result of Fear Factory's exploration of the relationship between man and machine, DIGIMORTAL rips and tears through 11 tracks of such intensity that they are impossible to ignore, making Fear Factory the first of the 'New Breed'.

Tracks:

1. What Will Become
2. Damaged
3. Digimortal
4. No One
5. Linchpin
6. Invisible Wounds (Dark Bodies) [ listen/comment ]
7. Acres Of Skin
8. Back The Fuck Up
9. Byte Block
10. Hurt Conveyer
11. (Memory Imprints) Never End
12. Dead Man Walking
13. Strain Vs. Resistance
14. Repentance
15. Full Metal Contact

Format: CD
Release Date: 07.28.1998

Obsolete

Tracks:

1. Shock [ listen/comment ]
2. Edgecrusher
3. Smasher/Devourer" - 5:34
4. Securitron (Police State 2000)" - 5:47
5. Descent" - 4:36
6. Hi-Tech Hate" - 4:33
7. Freedom or Fire" - 5:11
8. Obsolete" - 3:51
9. Resurrection" - 6:35
10. Timelessness" - 4:08

Bonus tracks

A digipak version of Obsolete released on March 23, 1999 contains additional tracks:

11. Cars [ listen/comment ] ft. Gary Numan (Gary Numan cover)
12. 0-0 (Where Evil Dwells)(Wiseblood cover)
13. Soulwound
14. Messiah
15. Concreto

Format: CD
Release Date: 04.14.1993

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Fear is the Mindkiller

Tracks:

1. Martyr [ listen/comment ] (Suffer Bastard Mix)
2. Self Immolation (Vein Tap Mix)
3. Scapegoat [ listen/comment ] (Pigfuck Mix)
4. Scumgrief (Deep Dub Trauma Mix)
5. Self Immolation (Liquid Sky Mix)
6. Self Immolation (LP Version)