Soul of a New Machine

For the book by Tracy Kidder, see The Soul of a New Machine.

Soul of a New Machine
Studio album by Fear Factory
Released	August 25, 1992
Recorded	May 1992
Studio	Grand Master, Ltd. (Hollywood)
Genre	Death metal industrial metal
Length	55:14
Label	Roadrunner
Producer	Colin Richardson
Fear Factory chronology
Soul of a New Machine (1992) Fear Is the Mindkiller (1993)
Fear Factory studio album chronology
Soul of a New Machine (1992) Demanufacture (1995)

Soul of a New Machine is the debut studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory. It was released on August 25, 1992 by Roadrunner Records. While it was Fear Factory's first studio album to be released, it was their second to be recorded. The first was Concrete, which was recorded in 1991 but not released until 11 years later. German magazine Rock Hard described it as death metal with many other elements such as industrial metal.

Soul of a New Machine was remastered and re-released on October 5, 2004. It came on a digipak with the remastered Fear Is the Mindkiller EP.

Track listing

All lyrics written by Burton C. Bell except where noted, all music composed by Dino Cazares and Raymond Herrera.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Martyr"	4:06
2.	"Leechmaster"	3:54
3.	"Scapegoat"	4:33
4.	"Crisis"	3:45
5.	"Crash Test"	3:46
6.	"Flesh Hold"	2:31
7.	"Lifeblind"	3:51
8.	"Scumgrief"	4:07
9.	"Natividad"	1:04
10.	"Big God/Raped Souls"	2:38
11.	"Arise Above Oppression"	1:51
12.	"Self Immolation"	2:46
13.	"Suffer Age"	3:40
14.	"W.O.E."	2:33
15.	"Desecrate"	2:35
16.	"Escape Confusion"	3:58
17.	"Manipulation"	3:29
Total length:		55:14

Credits

Fear Factory

• Burton C. Bell – lead vocals (credited as "Dry Lung Vocal Martyr"), programming ("Hardware, Utilities"), intro programming (10) Lyrics
• Dino Cazares – (credited as "Discordant") guitars, bass, arrangements
• Raymond Herrera – (credited as "Variable Percussive Wrecking") drums
• Andrew Shives – bass ("Discordant Bass") (credited but did not participate in recording)

Additional personnel

• Colin Richardson – producer, mixing, add. performer (9)
• Steve Harris – engineer, mixing
• Bradley Cook – assistant engineer
• Rober Fayer – assistant engineer, add. performer (9)
• Eddy Schreyer – mastering
• Ted Jensen – remastering (Expanded Edition)
• Satok Lrak, Karl Kotas (spelled backwards) – computer graphics, art direction
• Joe Lance – photography
• Lora Porter – executive producer, add. performer (9)
• Otis – sampling (credited as "Sample God"),
• Darius Seponlou – introduction (5), intro programming (5)
• Monte Conner – A&R

References