Archetype
Album by Fear Factory
Released	April 20, 2004
Recorded	October-November 2003
Genre	Death metal Industrial
Length	59:02
Label	Liquid 8
Producer(s)	Fear Factory
Professional reviews
All Music Guide (3/5) link
Fear Factory chronology
Hatefiles (2003)	Archetype (2004)	Transgression (2005)

Archetype (2004) is an album by Los Angeles death metal/industrial music band Fear Factory. This album is not a concept album like the previous albums. The music on this album returns to the Demanufacture era which pleased many fans. Cover for album Archetype by Fear Factory. ... An album is a collection of related audio tracks, released together commercially in an audio format to the public. ... Fear Factory is an American industrial metal/groove metal/death metal band, that has toured with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater and Rammstein, performed at three Ozzfests, the inaugral Gigantour, had singles in the Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums in the Billboard top 40, top... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Look up October in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up November in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Fear Factory is an American industrial metal/groove metal/death metal band, that has toured with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater and Rammstein, performed at three Ozzfests, the inaugral Gigantour, had singles in the Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums in the Billboard top 40, top... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. ... Fear Factory is an American industrial metal/groove metal/death metal band, that has toured with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater and Rammstein, performed at three Ozzfests, the inaugral Gigantour, had singles in the Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums in the Billboard top 40, top... Hatefiles is a compilation Album released by Roadrunner Records in 2003. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Transgression is the sixth studio album by the American industrial metal band Fear Factory. ... Template:Diffgggtgerent calendars 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Nickname: City of Angels Official website: http://www. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Industrial music is a loose term for a number of different styles of electronic and experimental music. ... Fear Factory is an American industrial metal/groove metal/death metal band, that has toured with Black Sabbath, Pantera, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Dream Theater and Rammstein, performed at three Ozzfests, the inaugral Gigantour, had singles in the Mainstream Rock Top 40 and albums in the Billboard top 40, top... Demanufacture is the second official album (not counting the previous EP Fear is the Mindkiller) by the Los Angeles groove metal/industrial band Fear Factory. ...

Making of the album

The making of Archetype came after a time of flux for the band. Following some personal differences between band members, lead singer Burton C. Bell announced his exit in March 2002, and the band disbanded immediately thereafter. However, the band reformed later that year minus guitarist Dino Cazares. With Bell back on board, bassist Christian Olde Wolbers took over guitar duties and they hired Byron Stroud on bass, currently bassist of the band Strapping Young Lad and Zimmer's Hole. The new lineup's first album Archetype was released on April 20 2004 on its new record label Liquid 8 based in Minnesota with the band having parted company with Roadrunner Records. Burton C. Bell Burton Christopher Bell (born Wednesday, February 19, 1969) is a vocalist and lyricist. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Christian Olde Wolbers (born August 5, 1972 in Antwerp, Belgium) was the second bassist of the industrial metal band Fear Factory from 1994 to 2002 when the group disbanded. ... Byron Stroud is the bassist for metal bands Fear Factory, Strapping Young Lad and Zimmers Hole. ... Strapping Young Lad (aka SYL) is a Canadian metal band, started by Devin Townsend in the mid-1990s. ... Zimmers Hole, from left to right: Jed Simon, Chris Valagao, Steven Wheeler, and Byron Stroud Zimmers Hole is a humorous death/speed metal band from Vancouver, Canada. ... Roadrunner United album cover Roadrunner Records is an independent record label, concentrating mainly on metalcore and post-hardcore as the subgenres being the most represented (with a few exceptions). ...

The album was named as the band feels that it has led the way for many death metal bands leading it to be an archetype of that style as Bell explains on the band's website. "When you look up the definition of the word, Archetype, it's the actual model from which everything else is copied. Fear Factory is that in my opinion, and Archetype is a defining moment for us. Listen to this record, and you'll know exactly where all these other bands came from." Bell also considers that while the record expresses the band's experiences over the years between 2002 and 2004, it is clearly a Fear Factory Record. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... An archetype is an idealized model of a person, object, or concept from which similar instances are derived, copied, patterned, or emulated. ...

Track listing

1. "Slave Labor"
2. "Cyberwaste"
3. "Act of God"
4. "Drones"
5. "Archetype"
6. "Corporate Cloning"
7. "Bite The Hand That Bleeds"
8. "Undercurrent"
9. "Default Judgement"
10. "Bonescraper"
11. "Human Shields"
12. "Ascension"
13. "School" (Cobain; Nirvana cover)
14. "Australian Tour 2003" (multimedia)

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Possible song interpretations

• Slave Labor contains references to the self-immolation of a person against the corporate world, akin to e.g. Kathy Change.
• Cyberwaste possibly contains references to anonymous Internet users who express haughty opinions only because they are "safe behind the cyberscreen".

Thích Quảng Đức pictured during his self-immolation. ... Kathy Change (1950 - 23 October 1996) was a West Philadelphian performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996. ...

External links

• Fear Factory page
• All Music Guide Archetype article