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Not a bad review, but I don't agree with a single word. "...Justin who delights us with his enchanted voice": his voice, and particularly his campy falsettos, are simply deplorable. They are all, despite being good musicians, reactionary and retro to an unbelievable extent. Simply shameful!

to average...

I was indeed wondering what had become of it... Nice mention, we’ll hear...

I love Mulino Bianco cookies... :-) Great review. I have a friend who is crazy about this singer; I'll borrow something from him... That way, maybe next time I can vote for the album too, not just the review.

Thank you again! ;-)

Thank you all, guys :-) @Hell: yes, that's the genre, and if you're interested in getting to know the mature Fear Factory, I definitely recommend Demanufacture and, why not?, the subsequent Obsolete, which isn't an epoch-making masterpiece like Demanufacture but is still an excellent album with a full four stars.

A review that might be a bit long but is undoubtedly of excellent quality. "...the right salt in heavy pasta, al dente and never overcooked, cooked in non-stick pop pots and with the right hardcore gas flame to reach the boil of the metal pathos": such a beautiful and entertaining sentence, it almost makes me hungry, besides the desire I felt throughout the reading to discover this band :-)

Perhaps, as Donjunio notes, I made a mistake in defining Green River as absolute innovators, or at least in assuming they were, because they didn't exactly invent a musical genre and were also tied to their time. Anyway, look, when I refer to aesthetics, I'm not talking about fashion, ripped jeans, and flannel shirts; I couldn't care less about that... I'm referring to the artistic approach. Moreover, I continue to assert that Green River were the forerunners of Seattle grunge, and that’s it, not of anything that came out of Seattle. Hendrix was already there twenty years before grunge, and Queensryche's metal had nothing to do with grunge. I was simply trying to say that during that time, in that region, a rock scene was forming, initially alternative and soon becoming mainstream. The godfathers of this scene were Green River; if we look back, we can find certain aspects present in grunge already in Hendrix's music (just to mention one of the artists who inspired it, and I could continue with dozens of other bands). That's all…

What I meant by "musical lesson" is that the subsequent bands from Seattle were inspired by their way of conceiving music, by their disregard for distinctions between musical genres, and therefore did whatever they wanted. Take Nirvana, for which in his writings (I couldn’t resist the temptation to read them) Cobain stated that "... they try to merge the energy of punk with the riffs of hard rock within a pop sensibility," or Soundgarden, inspired by Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath but also by punk and new-wave...

I still need to hear these :-)