Archetype (Fear Factory album)

Archetype
Studio album by Fear Factory
Released	April 19, 2004
Recorded	December 2003, 20 Days
Genre	Industrial metal, groove metal, thrash metal
Length	59:00
Label	Liquid 8
Producer	Fear Factory
Fear Factory chronology
Hatefiles (2003) Archetype (2004) Live on Sunset Strip (2005)
Singles from Archetype
"Cyberwaste" Released: 2004 "Bite the Hand That Bleeds" Released: 2004 "Archetype" Released: 2004

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]

Archetype is the fifth studio album by Los Angeles industrial metal band Fear Factory. It was released on April 19, 2004 through Liquid 8. This album is not a concept album like the previous three studio albums. The music on this album returns to the style of the Demanufacture era which pleased many fans. Archetype was also issued in a Limited Edition Digipak with a bonus DVD. Depending on where the digipak was obtained, the bonus DVD is either for their "Australian Tour 2004" and the video for "Cyberwaste" or one based around The Making of Archetype. Some, though not all, versions of the bonus digipak also included a gold ticket that gave the owner a chance to meet Fear Factory live.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Burton C. Bell except "School" by Kurt Cobain, all music composed by Bell/Herrera/Wolbers except where noted.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Slave Labor"	3:53
2.	"Cyberwaste"	3:18
3.	"Act of God"	5:08
4.	"Drones"	5:02
5.	"Archetype"	4:36
6.	"Corporate Cloning"	4:24
7.	"Bite the Hand That Bleeds"	4:09
8.	"Undercurrent"	4:05
9.	"Default Judgement"	5:24
10.	"Bonescraper"	4:12
11.	"Human Shields"	5:16
12.	"Ascension" (Fear Factory/Rhy Fulber)	7:05
13.	"School" (Nirvana cover; Cobain)	2:38
Total length:		59:00

Limited Edition Bonus DVD
No.	Title	Length
14.	"Australian Tour 2004" (Multimedia)	56:27
15.	"Cyberwaste" (Music Video)	3:35

Song interpretations

• "Slave Labor" contains references to the self-immolation of a person against the corporate world, e.g. Kathy Change.
• "Cyberwaste" contains references to anonymous Internet users who express haughty opinions only because they are "safe behind the cyberscreen".^[2]
• The title track "Archetype" is directed at then ex-guitarist Dino Cazares: "The infection has been removed/The soul of this machine has improved." Frontman Burton C. Bell has said in an interview that "'Archetype,' defines what Fear Factory is, completely. It has classic Fear Factory parts, and the heavy/melodic vocals, but without being forced or contrived."^[3]

In pop culture

• "Bite the Hand That Bleeds" was used in the film Saw and the music video is a bonus feature on one of the versions of the DVD.
• "Slave Labor" is featured on UFC: Ultimate Beat Downs, Vol. 1.
• The album and its title song are referenced in the game Fallout 3 on one of the terminals, where a certain "B. Bell" reports on a terminal that the virus on the "Archetype FF06" mainframe has been cleaned, and that "the infection has been removed, the soul of this machine has improved".^[4] The song was also introduced before the release of the album, featured on the game Galerians: Rion but was remixed.

Credits

• Burton C. Bell − vocals
• Christian Olde Wolbers − guitar, bass
• Byron Stroud − bass (though he is credited on this album as bassist, Christian Olde Wolbers did both guitars and bass in the studio)
• Raymond Herrera − drums
• John Bechdel − keyboards
• Jeremy Blair − engineer, augmenting
• Mike Catain − executive producer, coordination
• Omer "Impson" R. Cordell − photography
• Fear Factory − producer, development, visual concept
• Alain Francois − web design
• Rhys Fulber − keyboards, programming, devices
• Torsten Gebhardt − rendering
• Roger Lian − augmenting
• Ken "Hi Watt" Marshall − engineer, augmenting
• Greg Reely − mixing, augmenting
• Ralph Schrader − coordination, layout design, organizer
• Shaun Thingvold − augmenting
• Steve Tushar − augmenting
• Howie Weinberg − mastering, development

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2004	The Billboard 200	30
	Top Independent Albums	2

References

1. ^ "Archetype - Fear Factory". Allmusic. http://www.allmusic.com/album/r696384/review. 
2. ^ "Blabbermouth.net - FEAR FACTORY: 'Cyberwaste' MP3 Available For Download". Blabbermouth.net. 2004-03-24. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=20712. Retrieved 2007-04-20. 
3. ^ "The Worley Gig - Fear Factory". The Worley Gig. http://worleygig.com/samples/fearfactory.html. Retrieved 2007-04-20. 
4. ^ Screenshot of Fallout 3

External links

• Fear Factory page
• Allmusic Archetype article^{[dead link]}