A Nice Little Treat for Fear Factory Fans

Being a Fan of Fear Factory since Demanufacture, I have always enjoyed their music and was always eager for their next album. Though I was bummed when they split after Digimortal, I was relieved that they got back together(minus Dino)and created an awesome new album, Archetype. But after I got Archetype, I decided to get Hatefiles for the unreleased songs and the other rarities. I can tell you that this album is a mixed bag, some good songs and remixes and some stuff that you really won't care for.
The first four songs are the worthy bunch of this album, especially Terminate and Machine Debaser(which, like Full Metal Jacket, is an instrumental). Some remixes are good, while others fail, I personally enjoyed the remix of Edgecrusher because it was fresh, and it still retained some of it's metal background. One song in particular is worthy on this album is Dark Bodies, the Demo version of Invisible Wounds(Dark Bodies). This song not only has a different type of chorus (he screams the chorus instead of sings it) but the chorus riff is a whole lot different, the riff gets lower and lower, then hitting a couple of chugs, it's definitely a nice version of the song that has grown on me more then the original.
As most would say, this is for the die-hard fans of Fear Factory who would like to have most of their materials(I'm getting Concrete soon). I recommend listening to this first to get a feel.

A strong release by FF

18 Tracks full of songs for everyone's taste. You have a large number of FF songs that have been remixed and 8 songs by Fear Factory that were previously not released. Some would say these 8 songs were B-grade and that's why they weren't released. I would venture that these songs are good on their own. Listen to the CD twice and you'll appreciate what I mean.



Machine Debaser, Replica and Transgenic are the standouts in this album. The remixed songs are good as well but I like the original songs better hence only 4 stars. Overall its a strong album release by the heroes from Fear Factory

For die hard fans only

"Hatefiles" is yet another attempt for Roadrunner to cash in on the then disbanded Fear Factory, containing 18 tracks of previously unreleaed material and remixes and the like. Songs featured in video games and soundtracks like "Terminate" and "Demolition Racer" are solid, while remixes of "Edgecrusher" and "Cars" are pretty lame. The instrumental "Machine Debaser" is actually pretty cool, while the demo cut of "Dark Bodies" is actually better than the original version to be found on "Digimortal". "Hatefiles" isn't a bad collection of rare FF songs, but this is worth picking up for die hard Fear Factory fans only. Casual FF fans would be more well advised to save their money for their latest album "Archetype" or their unearthed debut "Concrete".