Years In the Darkness (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Hard Rock & Metal  »  General/Heavy Metal
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• Release Date: July 14, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: E1 Music
• UPC: 099923459422
• WAPI (Tower ID): 113556063
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #29556 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #1101 in Hard Rock & Metal (See Top 100 Hard Rock & Metal Bestsellers)
• #755 in General/Heavy Metal (See Top 100 General/Heavy Metal Bestsellers)

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When news broke of guitarist Dino Cazares' surprise reinstatement into Fear Factory for a series of 2009 shows, it simultaneously augured the departure of his old antagonists within that band, drummer Raymond Herrera and onetime bassist, more recently guitarist, Christian Olde Wolbers, both of whom immediately vowed to continue working together in some capacity. But surely no one expected the duo to rebound so quickly as to have the first album of their brand new band, Arkaea, in stores only six months later! Perhaps a little more predictable, however, is that said album, 2009's YEARS IN THE DARKNESS, carried over most of Fear Factory's recognizable musical hallmarks, since many of its songs had originally been demoed for use as such before receiving the creative input of Arkaea vocalist Jon Howard and bassist Pat Kavanagh -- both of them members of Canada's Threat Signal. As a result, the predominant formula espoused by tracks like "Locust," "Awakening," and "War Within" features that familiar and well-honed interplay between Olde Wolbers' semi-industrial groove metal riffing and Herrera's inhumanly precise percussion, only here injected with a new sense of urgency, as one might expect. Meanwhile, Howard supplants Burton C. Bell's Cookie Monster growl and echoing baritone with equally powerful shrieks and melodic cries indigenous to metalcore, thereby rendering standouts like "Beneath the Shades of Gray," "Gone Tomorrow," and the title cut considerably more relevant to the '00s. And then there are songs that break from expectations on either side of the equation.

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