Transgression - Fear Factory

Released only a year after 'Archetype' sought a return to the band's established trademark sound, 'Transgression' evidently seeks to push the boundaries of this sound to new extremes, but fails somewhere along the way. Rather than a drastic evolution, this is only a minor progression and one that isn't necessarily for the better, only really impressing when the style retreats even further back into Fear Factory's history and offers some convincingly heavy and angry death metal in the songs 'Spinal Compression' and 'Moment of Impact.' The rest is a comparatively weak mixture of ineffectual aggression and boring slow songs, the latter reaching its nadir in the deathly dull ...  Read the complete review