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“Linchpin” by Fear Factory
From the EP Linchpin: Special Australian Tour EP 2001 (2001)
“Linchpin” by Fear Factory appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2001. It was first released in 2001 on the EP Linchpin: Special Australian Tour EP 2001. Its best result is #67 on the WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #67 hard rock song of 2001.
"Linchpin" led the charge for Digimortal, the fourth studio album from American industrial metal band Fear Factory, going out on Roadrunner in 2001 as the record's first single, and it later lent its name to an EP issued only in Australia. Dino Cazares and Christian Olde Wolbers wrote it, Rhys Fulber produced, and the band mixed it with Mike Plotnikoff. It climbed to number 31 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, and radio got an edit that snips out the pre-chorus.
Thomas Mignone directed the video, all grinding machinery and what looks like a lie-detector rig, cut against the band playing through clouds of smoke and getting drenched in white liquid, before the Vitruvian Man and the Fear Factory logo flash up over singer Burton C. Bell at the end.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 67 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 | 106 |
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