industrial metal, rock, metal, alternative metal 69 min 15 tracks Roadrunner Records
Obsolete is the third studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory, released on July 28, 1998, through Roadrunner Records. It was produced by Fear Factory, Greg Reely and Rhys Fulber, the latter of whom wrote, arranged and performed all of the album's keyboard parts, and was the band's first full album to feature bassist Christian Olde Wolbers, who performed on around half of the tracks of the band's previous album Demanufacture (1995).
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Grave, classical in form, contemporary and spare.
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
- unpretentiousprestige
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Chronicles of Chaos5/10
- Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10
- Kerrang!3/5 ★
- NME3/10
- Terrorizer5/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Shock4:58
- 2Edgecrusher3:40
- 3Smasher/Devourer5:34
- 4Securitron (Police State 2000)5:47
- 5Descent4:34
- 6Hi‐Tech Hate4:35
- 7Freedom or Fire5:11
- 8Obsolete3:52
- 9Resurrection6:36
- 10Timelessness4:09
- 11Cars3:38
- 120‐0 (Where Evil Dwells)5:16
- 13Soulwound3:53
- 14Messiah3:33
- 15Concreto3:30
15 tracks, 69 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Fear Factory
- Label
- Roadrunner Records
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Digital Media
- Country
- XW
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