Very High Frequencies Episode: 174 - Fear Factory

Very High Frequencies 174 (Fear Factory) is an all out auditory assault. Since their first release in 1992 the group in various permutations have put out ten full length albums as well as club remixes of much of their catalog. With last year’s remix album Recoded the band celebrated thirty years of collaborating with Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly, Delerium and Conjure One fame adding programming and keyboards. The L.A. Industrial metal four piece has earned a reputation as futuristic techno anarchists. With a death metal growl and a melodic counterpart, vocalist Burton C. Bell influenced a whole generation of nu metal mosh pit madness. Lyrically he warns of a depersonalized dystopian surveillance state in which we are all in one big maximum security prison. Be assured it is time to heed Fear Factory’s clarion call to reject the authoritarian’s crushing overreach. How about free thinking and striving for living in peaceful harmony with all humans and the natural world? Do we embrace technology or do we fear it? What will happen to us if we become half human and half machine? Fear Factory have much to say and often it’s dealing with the here and now. The frightening future the band imagined twenty five years ago is sadly quite accurate. Remember, Fear Is The  Mindkiller. Be afraid. Be very afraid, with this week’s episode of Very High Frequencies FEAR FACTORY show.