**** Demanufacture by Fear Factory – An Excellent Work by a Pioneering Band

This is what I grew up listening to, and loving as a teen.  Though I think their first work is better, Demanufacture is a solid album, good song after good song.  Like their first effort, this one has a lot of really good songs.  As song writers, this work is more refined than the first one, and I think that is a minus.  Piss Christ is my favorite song on this album.

*** Obsolete by Fear Factory – Except for the Song Resurrection Fear Factory Lost Their Edge

Okay, I imagine some folks are saying, “What the hell?  This is a great album!”  And, had this been the first Fear Factory album, I would have given it 4 stars.  However, by the time of this album, Fear Factory is still writing good songs, but they just aren’t standing out against the rest of Fear Factory’s catalogue.  For all the ingenuity this band showed, this album doesn’t add anything stylistically.  However, Obsolete contains my favorite Fear Factory song to date, and that is the song Resurrection.