“Archetype” by Fear Factory

"Archetype" is the title track of Fear Factory's fifth studio album, released through Liquid 8 in 2004, and the sound of the industrial metal machine rebuilding itself on the fly. It was the band's first record without Dino Cazares, so Christian Olde Wolbers took on both the guitar and the bass, and he wrote the music with drummer Raymond Herrera.

Burton C. Bell wrote the words and sings lead. Ken Marshall recorded it and Greg Reely mixed. Olde Wolbers has named Rammstein's Mutter, Slayer's Undisputed Attitude and Mnemic's Mechanical Spin Phenomena as the records steering the album, and the title cut shoulders the lineup change without flinching.

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