Archetype (Fear Factory album) explained

Archetype
Type:	studio
Artist:	Fear Factory
Cover:	Fear Factory - Archetype.jpg
Released:	April 20, 2004
Recorded:	December 2003
Studio:	Rumbo Studios (California)^[1]
Length:	59:00
Label:	Liquid 8
Prev Title:	Hatefiles
Prev Year:	2003
Next Title:	Live on the Sunset Strip
Next Year:	2005

Archetype is the fifth studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory. It was the first album by the band not to feature Dino Cazares, with Christian Olde Wolbers handling both bass and guitar duties. It was released on April 20, 2004, through Liquid 8. It debuted at No. 30 on the Billboard 200 chart and is their highest charting album to date.

The album 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 entitled "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.

Christian Olde Wolbers noted the main influences for the record were Slayer's Undisputed Attitude, Rammstein's Mutter and Mnemic's Mechanical Spin Phenomena.

Song interpretations

• "Slave Labor" contains references to the self-immolation of a person against the corporate world.
• "Cyberwaste" contains references to anonymous Internet users who antagonize other users 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 stated 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]

Popular 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] [5]}
• A remixed version of the song "Archetype" was featured on the soundtrack to OVA .^[6]
• The official music video of the song "Archetype" was featured as a bonus unlockable in Capcom's game (PS2/Xbox).

Credits

• Burton C. Bell − vocals, lyrics, arrangements ("Transformated")
• Christian Olde Wolbers − guitars, bass, arrangements ("Transformated")
• Raymond Herrera − drums
• John Bechdel − live keyboards, effects ("Additional Devices") (1)
• Rhys Fulber − keyboards, programming, cognitive devices (1, 6, 7, 12, 13)
• Steve Tushar − keyboards, programming, cognitive devices (3–5, 8, 9, 11, 13), augmenting ("Additional Augments") (4, 5)
• Roger Lian − augmenting
• Shaun Thingvold − augmenting
• Ken "Hi Watt" Marshall − engineer, augmenting
• Jeremy Blair − engineer, augmenting
• Greg Reely − mixing, augmenting
• Mike Catain − executive producer, coordination
• Omer "Impson" R. Cordell − photography
• Fear Factory − producer, development, visual concept
• Alain Francois − web design
• Torsten Gebhardt − rendering
• Ralph Schrader − coordination, layout design, organizer
• Howie Weinberg − mastering, development

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2004	Billboard 200	30
	Top Independent Albums	2

External links

• Official Fear Factory website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian Olde Wolbers on Instagram: "Archetype is 16 years old today. This was a fun record to make, no record labels telling us what to do, how to write and being all up in…". https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/s/instagram/B_M-z9OHSgA . December 24, 2021 . registration. Instagram.
2. Web site: Blabbermouth.net - FEAR FACTORY: 'Cyberwaste' MP3 Available For Download . . April 20, 2007 . March 24, 2004 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930225050/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=20712 . September 30, 2007 .
3. Web site: The Worley Gig - Fear Factory . The Worley Gig . April 20, 2007 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061114175931/http://www.worleygig.com/samples/fearfactory.html . November 14, 2006 .
4. Web site: Screenshot of Fallout 3. https://web.archive.org/web/20110726173908/http://d.imagehost.org/0749/soul.jpg. dead. July 26, 2011.
5. Web site: Fallout 3 Easter Egg - Fear Factory's Archetype. January 6, 2009 . May 19, 2019 .
6. Web site: 10 March 2004 . Image Entertainment Unveils New Era of Anime Soundtrack With Galerians: Rion . AnimeNewsNetwork.com . 8 August 2009.