Demanufacture is the second studio album by American industrial metal band Fear Factory, released on March 3, 1995, by Roadrunner Records.
The digipak was re-released in 2003 with all bonus tracks mentioned above, but with the new Roadrunner Records logo on the front and back and different lettering on the spine.
In celebration of the 20 year anniversary of Demanufacture in 2015, Fear Factory embarked on a tour across Europe and North America playing the album.
[14] In a 1998 interview with Terrorizer (with the whole band present), Olde Wolbers states that Cazares performed "45 to 50 percent of the bass" on Demanufacture.
"Zero Signal" was also featured on the soundtrack to the movie Mortal Kombat and can be heard in part during the fight scene between Scorpion and Johnny Cage, although the song was an instrumental.
In reference to this, the band regularly featured a vocal sample of Steve Ritchie saying "Fatality" during live performances of the song thereafter.
[15] "Demanufacture" was also used in the opening video of GameShark 2 released by Mad Catz in 2004, along with numerous other Fear Factory songs.
Upon its release, Demanufacture proved to be extraordinarily successful and received universal acclaim from both music critics and band's fans.
Backed with a mechanical assault of machine gun drum work and guitar riffs, Burton C. Bell's groundbreaking extreme to clean vocals take the center stage, with enormous hooks covering tracks like 'Replica', 'Zero Signal' and the title track, while keyboard and synths create both harsh and lush counterpoints across the record.
"[22]"Replica" was covered by Dutch symphonic metal band Epica in 2007 as part of a "deluxe re-release" of the album The Divine Conspiracy,[23] and was performed live by them at the Whisky a Go Go in Hollywood, California, with Dino Cazares joining on stage in September 2007.
[25][26] "Pisschrist" was covered by American heavy metal band Byzantine in 2016 as part of their re-release of their 2015 album To Release Is to Resolve for the European region.