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| | Hartford Advocate: A Return to Brutality |
 | | The band had watered down their unrelenting trademark brutality for nu-metal radio-friendly sounds, and even a guest vocal by Cypress Hill's B-Real, who is very cool but, let's face it, not metal. |
 | | Though Fear Factory's blend of industrial beats, synths, with metal and hardcore elements, and both shouted and sung vocals may not be unique today, the band stood out for these elements in the early 90s, when grunge and modern rock dominated commercially, and the metal underground was all about the Satan-loving brutal death metal. |
 | | Drummer Raymond Herrera explains that the band did not reconfigure without a mission; reestablishing themselves in the hearts of the band's core audience was on the band members' minds. |
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