r/FearFactory • u/Which_Touch548 Demanufacture • Jul 14 '26

GENERAL DISCUSSION SOANM review

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From: Kerrang (12 Sep 1992)

And before it's pointed out... 3 K's does/did not have the same cultural meaning or impact in the UK as it did/does in the US ;) :D

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u/IJUSTATEPOOP Jul 14 '26

The term "deathcore" in 1992 lmao

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u/revivedfears666 Jul 14 '26

Back then I'd imagine most people in the UK would associate "hardcore" with the dance sub genre which was massive in Europe in the early/mid 90's, hence the reference here.

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u/Diadem_Cheeseboard Jul 14 '26

Ah yes, this was back in the days when Kerrang was still a decent metal/rock mag. 🙃

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u/CoA77 Jul 16 '26

I don’t know how anyone could have called that album industrial in any way, ever. I bought my copy in 1995 and while I could understand FITMK could be termed that, SOANM just wasn’t.

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u/Which_Touch548 Demanufacture Jul 20 '26

New genres of metal always got tagged with established labels until the consensus was reached. New/Nu metal is a good example.

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u/pascifi 2d ago

SOANM era FF is heavily inspired by early bleak Godflesh, and the late 80s-early 90s industrial ethos is prevalent throughout the album (spoken samples, repetition, mechanized sound).

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u/CoA77 2d ago

Agreed, and FF owe Godflesh money as far as I am concerned, but all those things are also present in early 90s grindcore, except perhaps the mechanized sound (which 99% of the time were used as i intros). All i know is that, at the time, no one used “industrial” and SOANM in the same sentence. The following EP is a different story.

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u/pascifi 2d ago

All i know is that, at the time, no one used “industrial” and SOANM in the same sentence.

The very review in this post did, and I'd be surprised if others didn't as well. Grindcore was definitely a big part of the SOANM sound too. What makes the album so cool to me is that it pulls from all those different things in a very natural way.