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Fear Factory: Digital Connectivity

Fear Factory: Digital Connectivity

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: disappointment
Review: this dvd is a disappointment because of the horrible sould quality on most of the live performances, i couldnt' wait to get this dvd because fear factory is one of my fav bands and I was going to blast this on my surround sound and have my own mini fear fac concert at home but when i turned up the juice on demanufacture it sounded like [fecal matter]!!! maybe fear fac didn't have enough money to overdub the songs, who knows but its' just like some guy recorded the concert footage on his cheap camcorder, the interviews and the videos that are pretty cool though

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Digital Connectivity: Connect Now
Review: This DVD is a gem, yes there may be a small number of imperfections but the footage and the clips make up for any disappointment. This DVD shows the evolution of this industrial metal group. Fear Factory have been around for now 12 years and with their release of their latest offering 'Archetype', this band will be around for some more time to come. Overall this DVD is a pearler.

The entire FF music video clips are included here in this package including 'Replica', 'Cars', 'Linchpin' (my favourite).It also includes 8 extra audio tracks which are B-Sides or unreleased studio demos. There is a section called Evolution - that runs through the first 10 years of the band's history from concept to worldwide touring. Even some footage from 2001 Australian Tour is in here.

The full FF discograpy is included from their very first CD to their EP's and Singles. This is a rare treat and the DVD offers so much. The weblinks and online photo galleries showing the evolution of the FF Logo is amazing as well.

There are live performances of FF songs from worldwide concerts such as 'Martyr', 'Scumgrief', 'Demanufacture', 'Shock', 'Edgecrusher', 'Damaged' and 'Digimortal'.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Rock out with FF
Review: This is a very nice package to have if you are a Fear Factory fan. _Digital Connectivity_ is a DVD with 84 minutes of FF footage. Culled from various sources, it is a simulataneous celebration and documentation of the band's first decade of existence.

The DVD can be played as one long movie or as 4 individual chapters, one for each of the band's first four studio albums. Besides including backstage clips and short interviews with the band members, the disc also includes all of the band's music videos: "Replica" (which was virtually ignored by MTV), "Resurrection" (which follows the _Obsolete_ story concept written by vocalist Burton Bell), "Cars" (which includes an appearance by Gary Numan), and "Linchpin" (from the recent _Digimortal_ album).

The bulk of the DVD is composed of live performances-- approximately 3 songs per album. Taken from a variety of venues the world over and from a varying timeframe, the footage ranges from bad to good, but mostly good. The liner notes indicate that there are no overdubs and no audio doctoring of the sound so as to keep the performances "as authentic as possible." Mostly, this works well, and gives a very genuine "visual" band history (for example, in one early scene we see one of Bell's forearm tattoos outlined, by the midpoint of the DVD it is not only filled in, but there is a quick shot of him getting inked on his chest.)

The DVD has many highlights-- snippets of guitarist Dino jamming with Pantera; a crowd singing "happy birthday" to bassist Christian; even a cameo by Ron Jeremy (does this explain the naked chicks backstage?) The high point for me was the performance of "Self Bias Resistor" taken from MTV's now-defunct Headbanger's Ball. Ah, memories.

In addition to all of this, the DVD includes Bell's written history of the band, 8 unreleased audio tracks of b-sides and rarities, photo galleries, and backgrounds for your computer. The only complaint I have is that Rhys Fulber, the band's producer and unofficial 6th member, gets no airtime on the DVD and is seen in only a few shots in the studio (including one in which the band has jokingly placed a sign on him while sleeping.) However, this aside-- as someone who has met the band once and seen them in concert several times, this is a genuine and well-done piece of FF nostalgia.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: i'm disappointed
Review: Very cheap... The video Clips are fine but some of the live clips are really bad. I have better DVDs of bands a lot more underground...

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: One word for this DVD...SAD!
Review: What a terrible way to make a DVD.The sound and video are terrible.Only about 2 songs are half way decent.Fear Factory are one of my favorite bands but they lost my respect with digicrap and now this lame excuse for a DVD comes out.They try to make these hi-tech futuristic graphics and then have video that looks like someone was taking it with a fisher-price camera.Don't bother getting this if you havn't wasted your money on it already.Some good DVD's to get is.

NIN
Rammstein
Earth Crisis

Pantera
Steve Vai

just to name a few.If all your interested in is seeing the music videos then i guess you could buy it,But don't expect to see a concert that is watchable.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Biggest dissapointment of the year
Review: What's this DVD? Is this really one of my favourite bands of all time, Fear Factory?I cant believe it.I've been waiting for this DVD for more than six moths only to find one of the worst DVDs I've never seen.Terrible sound and poor visual quality.Maybe my expectations were too high, but after enjoying impressive DVDs like the ones from Rammstein , ACDC and Metallica, Both with brilliand Dolby Digital 5.1 sound the I just can say something:Do not buy this DVD.It doesn't deserve your money.It's a mess , but truly speaking, they could have done it much better


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