Growing up as a Kerrang kid in the '90s, one of my favourite metal bands of the era was Fear Factory whose seminal Demanufacture album bucked the trend of traditional metal music by combining both crushing melodic heaviness with industrial synths. Backed up by Raymond Herrera's innovative approach towards machine-like precision drumming as well as Dino Cazares's crushingly heavy guitar riffs, the band's sound would be completed by Burton C Bell's extremely varied approach towards singing as well as Christian Olde Wolbers under-rated songwriting contribution for which 'Pisschrist' would crown itself as being my favourite track on the whole album. A landmark album without equal upon its release in 1995, Demanufacture explored the conceptual relationship between man and machine and incorporated samples from James Cameron's seminal Terminator 2 movie in order to give a chilling rendition of the future. And even though Demanufacture was released twenty years ago, with many citing it as being Fear Factory's best work, the recent album Genexus proves that the band still has plenty of ideas up its sleeve. With Fear Factory having recently completed a European tour to commemorate Demanufacture's 20th anniversary, I spoke to frontman Burton...