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Archetype (Fear Factory album)

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Archetype (2004) is an album by Los Angeles death metal/industrial music band Fear Factory.

Making of the album

The making of Archetype came after a time of flux for the band. Following some personal differences between band members, lead singer Burton C. Bell announced his exit in March 2002, and the band disbanded immediately thereafter. However, the band reformed later that year minus guitarist Dino Cazares. With Bell back on board, bassist Christian Olde Wolbers took over guitar duties and they hired Byron Stroud on bass, currently bassist of the band Strapping Young Lad and Zimmer's Hole. The new lineup's first album Archetype was released on April 20 2004 on its new record label Liquid 8 based in Minnesota with the band having parted company with Roadrunner Records.

The album was named as the band feels that it has led the way for many death metal bands leading it to be an archetype of that style as Bell explains on the band's website. "When you look up the definition of the word, Archetype, it's the actual model from which everything else is copied. Fear Factory is that in my opinion, and Archetype is a defining moment for us. Listen to this record, and you'll know exactly where all these other bands came from." Bell also considers that while the record expresses the band's experiences over the years between 2002 and 2004, it is clearly a Fear Factory Record.

Track listing

  1. "Slave Labor"
  2. "Cyberwaste"
  3. "Act of God"
  4. "Drones"
  5. "Archetype"
  6. "Corporate Cloning"
  7. "Bite The Hand That Bleeds"
  8. "Undercurrent"
  9. "Default Judgement"
  10. "Bonescraper"
  11. "Human Shields"
  12. "Ascension"
  13. "School"
  14. "Australian Tour 2003" (multimedia)