Fear Factory Show Review
Written: Corey Evans December 20, 2005
Fear Factory, Soilwork, Strapping Young Land, Darkane
What a metal show if there ever was one for this year. Three of my favorite metal artists on one bill was a concert wet dream of sorts, and the reality lived up to the anticipation.
Sweden's Darkane opened up with a brief set, but despite my unfamiliarity with the group, they bode well with the crowd and seemed to walk a way with a few new fans.
Strapping Young Lad. What can you saw about this group and the notorious living legend in the making Devin Townsend. If it was any other long hair bald guy, you'd laugh, but since its Devin Townsend (making fun of you at every turn), you rock with your cock out. As pummeling as it is entertaining, these guys always give every one a run for their money. Tearing through a pretty good cross of all their releases, including the killer new album "Aliens", the group got the crowd going, and raised the bar for the rest of the groups of the evening to live up to.
Soilwork took the reigns next, fueled by a summer on Ozzfest and one of their most successful years yet supporting their new album "Stabbing The Drama". Running low on adjectives, it leaves me saying just another solid performance in the evening. The group ran the gauntlet of tracks for the most part from "Figure Number Five" and "Stabbing The Drama" and a good portion of the crowd seemed to be there for them, and even some of it thinned out by the time Fear Factory took the stage.
What looked to be a crowded and close to sold out show, Fear Factory came in loud and left quietly. The forerunners of the 90's of the industrial metal movement that spawned the likes of Static-X to mainstream success years later, Fear Factory were still in fine form tonight. Out in support of their new album "Trangression", the group played a moderately timed set that covered an increasingly expansive catalog of tunes.
At the end of the night I left well satisfied, a night with no filler just solid performances that seemed to leave everyone feeling as if they got what they paid for.
