Fear Factory Quiz Challenge - How Much Do You Know? | Music

Answer: Machine

"Soul of a New Machine" was released in 1992. The album plays 17 tracks and lasts 55 minutes. Every song on this album were written by Burton C. Bell and composed by Dino Cazares and Raymond Herrera.

Answer: Dog Day Sunrise

"Dog Day Sunrise", which is this quiz creator's favorite Fear Factory song, is track six of the second album "Demanufacture". Head of David originally recorded this song. The song lyrics are not about sunrise during the dog days of summer as the title may suggest, but about working below the streets everyday, followed by an emotional quit.

Answer: Digimortal

The word preceding clock, cable, and camera is digital, and the word meaning an ability to die is mortal. If we take the first four letters of digital, digi, and put it together with mortal, we get the title of a Fear Factory album, "Digimortal". "Digimortal" is the fourth Fear Factory album, released in spring 2001.

Answer: Final Exit

"Final Exit" is the last track of the 2010 album "Mechanize". The title was directly inspired by the book "Final Exit: the Practicalities of Self Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying" and is a tribute to the "Final Exit Network", an organization that helps people who really want to die. According to Burton C. Bell, this song played on the radio helps some people to learn about the organization.

Answer: U2

The original version of "I Will Follow" is on the U2 album "Boy", released in 1980. Twenty-five years later, the Fear Factory version of "I Will Follow" was released for their album "Transgression".

Answer: School

"School" was first recorded for the debut Nirvana album "Bleach". Fifteen years later, the Fear Factory version was released as the last track of their album "Archetype".

Answer: Concrete

"Concrete", released in 2002, featuring demo songs recorded in 1991, before their first album, "Soul of a New Machine", was released.

All of these choices are songs included on this demo album.

Answer: Mindkiller

"Fear Is the Mindkiller", their first EP, focuses on remixes of "Soul of a New Machine" tracks.

Answer: Edgecrusher

"Edgecrusher" is the protagonist on the concept album "Obsolete", who saves humanity by destroying machines that are trying to take over the world. The others, the "Securitron" and "Smasher/Devourer" are machine-friendly antagonists. All of these characters are used as song titles on this album.

Answer: The Industrialist

"The Industrialist", the title track, is his favorite song off of the album, because this song features every element of Fear Factory, "It starts out big and it goes into the syncopated double bass, kick drums pattern, syncopated with the guitars. And it just sounds like the big machine roll-along."