Scored this in an older haul but I put off listening to this for so long (oops!) I can't remember which one, so it gets its own post. Writing about this made me remember that I found the first two Fear Factory albums in a bargain bin in the mid-late '90s, and those were the only Fear Factory material I'd ever really heard previously. I remember not liking Demanufacture much, but thinking Soul of a New Machine was fine since it was mostly straightforward death metal (I can't have been THAT into it since I traded both discs off not too long afterwards).
Very cheap looking live EP--I've seen more substantial packaging on some promo singles, which is what I initially thought this was. "Slave Labor" is uninteresting groove metal. "Cyberwaste" is more groove metal but at least has a recurring fast riff at around a minute in that at least holds my attention. "Drones" actually gets more into the industrial territory I associate with Fear Factory, which isn't really for me. None of these tracks compel me to explore the band any further than I already have.
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