{"id":360,"date":"2001-08-30T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-30T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2024-03-24T19:17:49","modified_gmt":"2024-03-24T19:17:49","slug":"calling-all-metal-drummers-achtung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"Calling all metal drummers: Achtung!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From the same label that brought you recordings of such timeless metal acts as Mercyful Fate, Deicide, King Diamond, Suffocation and Biohazard comes one of the greatest industrial\/metal giants,&nbsp;<strong><strong>Fear Factory<\/strong><\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong><strong>Roadrunner Records<\/strong><\/strong>, a Dutch independent that recently hooked up with Vivendi Universal\u2019s Island\/Def Jam Music division, has been cranking out excessive amounts of n\u00fc metal as of late, with the exception of its Glen Benton\u2019s obligatory Deicide releases. Fear Factory, hailing from Los Angeles, has separated itself from the ravenous pack of 20-somethings in search of the next Ozzfest buy-in package\u2014Slipknot, anyone?\u2014by staying true to its sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The hour-plus drive to the&nbsp;<strong>Phoenix Theater<\/strong>&nbsp;in Petaluma, home of wrist-wrestling championships and free-range chickens, proved to be well worth our extended efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Except, well, with metal militia\u2014i.e., some buddies\u2014in tow, I managed to catch an uninspired set by a Puerto Rican combo calling itself&nbsp;<strong>Puya<\/strong>, a rap-metal hybrid that managed to create some movement in the 350 attendees. Maybe it\u2019s just me\u2014yes, it is me\u2014but didn\u2019t this genre\u2019s ship sink back in the mid \u201990s? Anchors away!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next up was Fear Factory, a band that\u2019s obviously been taking notes in Lighting 101 class. The band\u2019s stage show\u2014a flood of synchronized spotlights, strobes and smoke\u2014worked well with its dark and menacing aura. With reckless abandon and caution thrown to the wind, guitarist&nbsp;<strong>Dino Cazares<\/strong>&nbsp;launched into \u201cWhat Will Become\u201d from Fear Factory\u2019s latest album,&nbsp;<strong><em>Replica<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp;<strong>Burton Bell<\/strong>, on vocals with harmonizer, planted one foot firmly on the monitors and belched out the set in true death-metal fashion. Commanding the huge 60\u2019 X 40\u2019 stage like a drill sergeant, Bell\u2019s onstage banter made the metal masses stand at attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Such hi-hat and double-bass workouts as \u201cScapegoat\u201d and \u201cPisschrist\u201d\u2014the latter this writer\u2019s favorite\u2014sounded even larger in a live setting, and highlighted the talents of drummer&nbsp;<strong>Raymond Herrera<\/strong>. If you\u2019re a metal drummer and you haven\u2019t heard Fear Factory\u2019s&nbsp;<strong><em>Fear Is the Mindkiller<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong><em>Demanufacture<\/em><\/strong>, you\u2019d best trade your Sabian cymbal pack and Pearl Export for a gift certificate from your favorite record store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fear Factory is a darling of the U.K. press, but the band hasn\u2019t \u201cbroken,\u201d in record-company parlance, stateside. However, by year\u2019s end, this band may be just a lot closer to reaching the goal of worldwide acclaim. If its growth, and the resulting maturity, over the years have yielded anything, that might make for a solid foundation. Burton and company are reinventing this archaic genre into something quite extraordinary. Take heed: Miss this band now and you\u2019ll be kicking yourself later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the same label that brought you recordings of such timeless metal acts as Mercyful Fate, Deicide, King Diamond, Suffocation and Biohazard comes one of the greatest industrial\/metal giants,&nbsp;Fear Factory.&nbsp;Roadrunner Records, a Dutch independent that recently hooked up with Vivendi Universal\u2019s Island\/Def Jam Music division, has been cranking out excessive amounts of n\u00fc metal as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}