FEAR FACTORY — Obsolete (review)

FEAR FACTORY — Obsolete album cover Album · 1998 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
After crafting a pretty decent industrial metal release in Demanufacture, Fear Factory's musical evolution would see them scaling back the death metal elements they'd originally cultivated and focusing more on the groove metal and alternative metal sounds which they'd started weaving into their sound, though not to such an extent as to take them out of the industrial metal sphere entirely. The end result was Obsolete, an album perfectly aligned to fit the groove/alt tendencies of the 1990s with that thick layer of industrial grime that was all the rage back then.

A calculated attempt at selling out? Maybe, maybe not - but either way as well as being a monster hit in sales terms it's also a fairly fun album, a breezily unpretentious little listen which retains more than enough metal ferocity to get you bopping your head to it and keeps things nice and accessible. It doesn't reinvent the wheel or provide an unalloyed classic of the genre, but it isn't a clumsy botch either.
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