Original Version LP Version Expanded Edition Version
1. Martyr 4:05 1. Martyr 4:05 1. Martyr 4:05
2. Leechmaster 3:54 2. Leechmaster 3:54 2. Leechmaster 3:54
3. Scapegoat 4:33 3. Scapegoat 4:33 3. Scapegoat 4:33
4. Crisis 3:45 4. Crisis 3:45 4. Crisis 3:45
5. Crash test 3:46 5. Crash test 3:46 5. Crash test 3:46
6. Flesh hold 2:31 6. Flesh hold 2:31 6. Flesh hold 2:31
7. Lifeblind 3:51 7. Lifeblind 3:51 7. Lifeblind 3:51
8. Scumgrief 4:07 8. Scumgrief 4:07 8. Scumgrief 4:07
9. Natividad 1:04 9. Natividad 1:04 9. Natividad 1:04
10. Big god / raped souls 2:38 10. Big god / raped souls 2:38 10. Big god / raped souls 2:38
11. Arise above opression 1:51 11. Arise above opression 1:51 11. Arise above opression 1:51
12. Self immolation 2:45 12. Self immolation 2:45 12. Self immolation 2:45
13. Suffer age 3:40 13. Suffer age 3:40 13. Suffer age 3:40
14. W.O.E. 2:33 14. W.O.E. 2:33 14. W.O.E. 2:33
15. Desecrate 2:34 15. Desecrate 2:34 15. Desecrate 2:34
16. Escape confusion 3:58 16. Escape confusion 3:58 16. Escape confusion 3:58
17. Manipulation 3:29 17. Manipulation 3:29 17. Manipulation 3:29
--- Bonus Disc ---
1. Martyr (suffer bastard mix) 7:14
2. Self immolation (vein tap mix) 5:31
3. Scapegoat (pigfuck mix) 4:35
4. Scumgrief (deep dub trauma mix) 6:19
5. Self immolation (liquid sky mix) 6:06
total time 55:13 total time 55:13 total time 1:24:58


Martyr

What I thought was life
Came to an end
Born into a world
I never asked for this
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away!

Born into hardship
A world of destruction
Suffer, bastard
Suffer, bastard
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away!

Take me to heaven
Adorn me with wings
Suffer, bastard
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away!

Suffer, bastard...

Repeat 1st verse, 2nd verse

I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away
I've got to get away


Leechmaster

What you feel
Are your needs
All you want
Is to be loved

Pain!...Love!...Pain!

But can you give
Someone else
The same love
That you want

Pain!...Love!...Pain!
Pain!...Love!...Pain!

Come and take my pain
And soon you will see
That I will taste your pain
Then both of us can bleed

I loved you once
Now go away
I loved you once
Please stay away

Your emotions
Are out of control
A battered soul
Your love means shit

Pain!...Love!...Pain!
Pain!...Love!...Pain!

Come and take my pain
And soon you will see
That I will taste your pain
Then both of us can bleed

I loved you once
Now go away
I loved you once
Please stay away (x2)


Scapegoat

Judges have decimated
Meanings of our law
Already guilty?
Something has a flaw
Wrongly accused
Blindly confused
Open your eyes
Try to realize

Chorus:
Don't you know
You can't see
Too damn blind
To judge me!

Wrongly accused
Blindly confused
Open your eyes
Try to realize

Repeat chorus

Laws are meant to follow
But they've mislead you
Conceal their meanings
So they can suit you
Misjudged by the system
No one ever knows
Adding injury to insult
No one ever knows
No one
No one knows
No one
No one
No one knows...

Judges have decimated
Meanings of our law
Already guilty?
Something has a flaw
Wrongly accused
Blindly confused
Open your eyes
Wake up, realize!

Repeat chorus, 3rd verse

Scapegoat
Scapegoat
Scapegoat
Scape - Goat
Scape - Goat


Crisis

You that I despise
Repentance of sorts
Death comes naturally
Not from a hated war
Repentance
Repentance of faith
Repentance of hope
Repentance of hate

Chorus:
Not my war
Soldiers marching on
Not my war
Soldiers marching on

On your feet!
Crisis at hand
On your feet soldier!
Crisis at hand
On your feet soldier
On your feet motherfucker!

Repeat chorus

Crisis
Crisis
Crisis

Repeat chorus

Crisis
Crisis
Crisis


Crash Test

Some men beleive
Animals aren't seen
Testing on their mind
Testing with their lives
You can't beleive
Not even perceive
Animals that die
Animals that cry

Chorus:
Crash test! So what!
Crash test! So what!

Catastrophes
To the animal species
Politically correct
On animals, to dissect?
What does it mean
When animals can dream?
Destroying a pure life
Only for a price

Repeat chorus

Animals that die
Animals that cry
Testing on their mind
Testing with their lives (x2)

Crash! Test!

Animals that die
Animals that cry
Testing on their mind
Testing with their lives

Repeat 1st verse, chorus

Crash!


Flesh Hold

Breaking out
this stifled room
A jail cell, a steel tomb
To see the light
My mere existence
God's kill in sight
Confined in madness

Jurors hate criminal minds
They're making dates for
killing time
Breaking out
this stifled room
A jail cell, a steel tomb
One has to fight
For dissension
God's kill in sight
Confined in madness

Wasted life, tasted
Wasted life, tasted (x2)

Kill me!
Kill me!
Kill me!
Kill me!

So let me die
So let me die

Wasted life, tasted
Wasted life, tasted

One has to fight
For dissension
God's kill in sight
Confined in madness
Jurors hate criminal minds
They're making dates for
killing time


Lifeblind

Chosen to speak
Truth of the weak
Where is your god?
Truth has been lost

Where is the way?
Whose life will pay?
No one is wrong
Grief is too strong

Lose the way
Pain today
Who can say
Who will pay
No wisdom
No vision

All is lost
Pain is lost

Repeat 2nd verse

Lose the way
Pain today
Who can say
Who will pay
No wisdom
No vision

All is lost
Pain is lost
All is lost
Pain is lost (x2)


Scumgrief

Cry, cry, cry, cry

Wires around your arms
Like wires around
your head
A crucifix of me
Above your bed

I've seen your wounds
That you can't hide
You bleed well
When I cry

Chorus:
Cry, cry, cry
Scumgrief, scumgrief
Scumgrief, scumgrief

Smell the rats of deviance
Coursing through
your veins
Rotting faith in yourself
Confined alone to decay
I've seen your wounds
That you can't hide
You bleed well
With the rat inside (x2)

Repeat chorus


Big God / Raped Souls

Intro:
In America today,
every 25 fucking
seconds someone
is viciously raped,
someone is
brutally violated;
250 times a day
someone is murdered
someone's life is taken,
In America;
This is America,
This is America,
and I love America,
I love America!

No remorse for the pain
Look into the eyes of death
Strong man cannot endure
Big god of this earth

Liar!
Big god, no god!

Take back this life
Give back the world
'Woe to you
of Earth and sea'
Big god will always be

Lair!
Big god, no god!
Burn!

Raped Souls:

God raped souls
Of our lives
Hammers crush all our lives
Just like clockwork
They'll crush our lives


Arise Above Oppression

Rise above, rise above
Steal away
to hide your shame
Rise above, rise above!

Rise above your opression
Above the one
that hates you
Above the one that lies
Above the pain that hates
Death! Fear! Rage!

Rise above, rise above
Rise above
Rise
Rise
Rise

Rise above your oppression
Above the pain
and suffering
Above the one
that hates you
And kills you
Through all of your life


Self Immolation

Skin
Your scars
Surface is
Rusty blades

Chorus:
Self immolation crying out
Self immolation crying out
Self immolation crying out
Self immolation crying out

Oblivion
Your weakness
Is your temper
Is your temper

Repeat chorus

Your god
High above
In your veins
Liquid sky

Repear chorus

Immortal
Your saviour
Destroys you
Destroys you

Repeat Chorus


Suffer Age

Compressed youthful voices
Suffer age
Below John's floors
Spoilage
Lingering death
Gagging your fears
Dead in horror
Grizzly facial stare

Unbelievable atrocity
Hateful monstrosity
Draining scientific minds
Pathological deeds
Creator
Executioner
Heresy
God's vision destroyed

Sinister joker
Childhood dreams
Laughing corruption

Compressed youthful voices
Suffer age
Below John's floors
Spoilage


W.O.E.

Caught beneath
visions of hatred
Drowning fast in
sounds of silence
Caught between
division of hate
Can't breathe under
this weight of existence

Chorus:
Too strong,
Too strong for you
Too strong,
Too strong for you

Repeat 1st verse, chorus

Drowning
Drowning
Drowning
Drowning (x2)

Repeat 1st verse, chorus


Desecrate

Desecrate the vows within
Sanctify all you fears
Desecrate the holy church
Desecrate

Fill the abyss
With your hatred
Slaughter my child
Before your eyes
Fill the abyss
With your hatred
Slaughter my child

Repeat 1st verse, 2nd verse

Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Drink his blood like wine
Taste his body like bread
He's not my god
He's not my god
He's - Not - My - God

Thy will be done
On earth as it is in heaven
Drink his blood like wine
Taste his body like bread
He's not my god
He's not my god
He's - Not - My - God
He's - Not - My - God
He's - Not - My - God

Not my god!
Desecrate!
Not my god!
Desecrate!


Escape Confusion

Escape, escape

Escape confusion
Escape animosity (x2)

From morality
A morbid animosity
Addicted to the epidemic
That deteriorates progression
Escape confusion
Escape animosity

Terrorism within
Dreams become reality
Visions of hope
Attempt to escape
Attempt to escape
Attempt to escape
the sickness!

Terror
Dreams become reality
Visions of hope
Attempt to escape
Attempt to escape
the sickness!

Repeat 1st verse


Manipulation

Your conniving words
Are childishly insane
To get what you want
You'll say anything
In your mind
You lust to control me
You lust
For control

Chorus:
Mold me, fold me
Mold me, fold me

My pain is your pleasure
My agony excites you
Desperate for a change
But change comes within
I'm not staying
Not around you
I'm stronger than you think
Much stronger than you

Repeat chorus

Molding and folding
Lust for control (x3)

Longing to control
Those without esteem
Ignorant pawns
Of your pathetic dreams

Dying to control
Those without esteem
Ignorant pawns
Of your pathetic dreams

Molding and folding
Lust for control

Hatred is a tool
Thoughtlessly you use
Ruin an only friend
With misleading rules
Contain your own rage
Give yourself praise
'Cause you have no shame
With your callous games

Repeat chorus


Lyrics in plain text format



Line up





Burton C. Bell - Dry lung vocal martyr, hardware, utilities
Dino Cazares - All discordant guitars & bass, hardware, utilities
Andrew Shives - Discordant bass
Raymon Herrera - Variable percussive wrecking





Artwork







Info



Produced by Colin Richardson
Engineered by Steve Harris
Assistant engineers: Bradley Cook and Robert Fayer
Recorded at Grand Master, Ltd., Hollywood, CA - May 1992
Mixed by Colin Richardson, Steve Harris, and Dino Cazares
at Fon Studios, Sheffield, England - June 1992
Mastered by Eddy Schreyer at Future Disc, Hollywood, CA
Executive producer: Lora Porter
A&R: Monte Conner

Sample god: Otis
"Crash Test" intro: Darius Seponlou
"Big God" intro: Burton C. Bell

Additional musicians on "Natividad":
Lora Porter, Colin Richardson, and Robert Fayer

All music & arrangements by Dino Cazares
All lyrics by Burton C. Bell, except "Escape Confusion"
and "Suffer Age" by Dino Cazares, and "Arise Above
Surpression" by Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares

Management:
Lora Porter, 1245 Garcia St., Atascadero, CA 93422

Legal Representation:
William A. Barrol, Esq.

Computer graphics and art direction: Satok Lrak
Photos by: Joe Lance / Shooting Star

This record is dedicated in loving memory of Natividad Cazares
(1935-1982) and Joey Cazares (1959-1985)





Review



I believe the music Fear Factory plays is called Industrial Metal, which on this cd is actually death metal with lots of samples and complicated technical drums. It's very nice to hear a different kind of metal for a change I think. This cd is packed full of songs of which I find most really good, and some not so good, but overall this is a great album, and with a quite unique music style I think.

Rating: 8 out of 10


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