We’re not going to get into a whole BCB versus Dino thing here because, frankly, it’s been all over the place already so who needs a regurgitation of that drama, right? What we will say is that we’ve never not been excited when the former Fear Factory vocalist has put out something new. Whether it’s collabs with Static X, G/Z/R, and Ministry, Bell’s own projects like City Of Fire and Ascension of the Watchers or hell, Fear Factory’s post-Cazares/pre-reconciliation records Archetype and Transgression (Because there are those out there who don’t consider those FF releases “canon”) there’s just something special that the vocalist brings to the table with each new outing.
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With the recent announcement that Burton C. Bell is stepping away from Fear Factory to focus on Ascension Of The Watchers, Apocrypha might just be the most important record of Bell’s career. And upon listening through AOTW’s first full-length since 2008’s Numinosum it’s apparent that, regardless of that news, Apocrypha is destined to be something important.
[Read more…]Burton C. Bell: A Rock And Roll Fables Conversation
Fear Factory’s latest, and ninth album, is barely a year old yet here they are touring the country playing their iconic sophomore album from front to back. Despite the obvious reasons (Um, 20th anniversary of Demanufacture!), the answer for the current tour is actually quite simple as vocalist Burton C. Bell cordially explains via phone: [Read more…]