Archetype (Fear Factory album)

Track listing

Song interpretations

• "Slave Labor" contains references to the self-immolation of a person against the corporate world, e.g. Kathy Change. The chorus line "God help me pour this gas on me" is grammatically incorrect, as the second pronoun should be reflexive.
• "Cyberwaste" contains references to anonymous Internet users who express haughty opinions only because they are "safe behind the cyberscreen".
• 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."

  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".
• A remixed version of the song was featured on the soundtrack to OVA .

  Credits

• Burton C. Bell − lyrics vocals, arrangements
• Christian Olde Wolbers − guitars, bass, arrangements
• Raymond Herrera − drums
• John Bechdel − live keyboards, effects
• Rhys Fulber − keyboards, programming, cognitive devices
• Steve Tushar − keyboards, programming, cognitive devices, augmenting
• 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

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