Fear Factory – Archetype (2004)

March 28, 2024

I was into “Cyber Waste” when this first came out (“nothing you say matters to us”? – matters enough for you to write a whole fucking song and release it as the lead single to this album LOL) but otherwise I mostly snoozed on this album. I was 13 or 14 years old, and wasn’t really THAT into Fear Factory. Now, as a legit old cunt, one can return to the Fear Factory discography in retrospect and see the highs and the lows. For me, Archetype is a high. Oddly, its a record without Dino on it, someone whom I attribute the chuggalugga FF sound to as a personality, but here we are without him and we get one of the best Fear Factory records in ages, chronologically at least. Ray Herrera’s drumming is fucking class too.