''Archetype'' is the fifth studio album by American heavy metal band

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. It was the first album by the band not to feature

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, with

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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

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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.

noted the main influences for the record were

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Track listing

Song interpretations

*"Slave Labor" contains references to the

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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". *The title track "

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" is directed at then ex-guitarist Dino Cazares: "The infection has been removed/The soul of this machine has improved." Frontman

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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."

Popular culture

*"Bite the Hand That Bleeds" was used in the film ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' 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 "Archetype" was featured on the soundtrack to

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'' Galerians: Rion''. *The official music video of the song "Archetype" was featured as a bonus unlockable in Capcom's game '' Final Fight: Streetwise'' (PS2/Xbox).

Credits

− vocals, lyrics, arrangements ("Transformated") *

− guitars, bass, arrangements ("Transformated") *

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− drums *John Bechdel − live keyboards, effects ("Additional Devices") (1) *

Rhys Fulber Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He is a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, along with Bill Leeb. He also records under his own name and under the name Conjure One. Biography Rhys Fulber was born in ...

− keyboards, programming, cognitive devices (1, 6, 7, 12, 13) *

Steve Tushar Steve Tushar is an American Latin Grammy nominated record producer/remixer and musician. He has been a keyboardist, remixer, programmer and producer for metal band Fear Factory, record producer for Beto Cuevas and Chroma Key, and keyboard player fo ...

− 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 Greg Reely is a Canadian record producer, engineer, and mixer who has worked with acts such as Sarah McLachlan, Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Machine Head, Coldplay, The Tea Party, Spirit of the West and others. Credits *BAG - ''BAG'', ''I ...

− 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 -

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(North America)

References

External links

Official Fear Factory website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Archetype (Album) Fear Factory albums 2004 albums Albums produced by Rhys Fulber