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Pretty Hate Machine


My Spotify Wrapped for 2020 showed that I listened to a lot of Fear Factory throughout the year. A lot – an obscene amount. What’s always been fascinating about the industrial metal band isn’t just the frenzied drumming or the harmonic-to-death-grown vocals but the ambience on both Demanufacture and Obsolete. Those mechanized effects, the haunting …

When did listening to music become such a solitary habit for me ? Not since the days of a dreadfully miserable teenager wishing for all his heart to be deemed cool enough to like The Stone Roses and Ride, listening to CNFM103’s indie-heaven-in-a-local-radio-show “Jive Alive” on a black-and-electric-blue double-tape-deck and radio stereo in a darkened room lit only …