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For Immediate Release
April 1, 2008

MEMBERS OF FEAR FACTORY AND THREAT SIGNAL ANNOUNCE NEW PROJECT! MUSIC
AVAILABLE FOR PREVIEW AT http://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/ARKAEAMUSIC

Fear Factory members Christian Olde Wolbers (guitar) and Raymond Herrera
(drums) are proud to announce the debut album of their new group, ARKAEA.
The band also features one of metal¹s hungriest young singers, Jon Howard
(Threat Signal).

ARKAEA has just finished up preproduction and are scheduled to enter the
studio to begin recording. This album promises to be as pummeling as
anything the gold-selling team of Olde Wolbers and Herrera has ever written.

Olde Wolbers comments: ³These songs were designed like the Fear Factory
songs that Raymond and I always wrote. However, we¹ve been able to push the
boundaries and go out of that context, while remaining heavy.²

³Christian and Ray have been writing together for many years, so the music
does have a lot of Fear Factory elements,² adds Howard. ³However, we¹ve been
open to trying different things. It basically fuses what I have been doing
vocally in Threat Signal with driving Fear Factory rhythms, along with some
of our own experimentation. The idea behind the project is to be heavy, but
maintain melody at the same time.²

Howard has been a part of the Fear Factory family ever since Olde Wolbers
served as producer for Threat Signal¹s debut, Under Reprisal. Given that
connection, the chemistry was there the instant the band started playing
together.

The band¹s yet untitled album is due out fall 2008 on KOCH RECORDS and plans
for touring are under way in support of the record.

You can preview new music at http://www.myspace.com/arkaeamusic

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Oh MAN...!!! Can't wait to hear this. Can't wait to hear this.

Saw this earlier today. Excited I am.

i like everything except for the vocals. too run of the mill average metal singer voice

I actually liked a lot of those clips. Music is very good. I'm not normally one for a great deal of the sore-belly-yelling but most of that was pretty much at a comfortable pitch for me. Then again I had just come back from the dental hygienist, who could have hired herself out to the Spanish Inquisition for a high fee, and I was ready to damage things.

Keeker wrote:I actually liked a lot of those clips. Music is very good. I'm not normally one for a great deal of the sore-belly-yelling but most of that was pretty much at a comfortable pitch for me. Then again I had just come back from the dental hygienist, who could have hired herself out to the Spanish Inquisition for a high fee, and I was ready to damage things.

Stomatology makes you METAL \m/

EDIT: I think I should point out the fact I laughed.

Christian told me that those were Jon's first try at vocals in the studio. Things may change a bit.

Ikea makes music now?

Its cool stuff, good to hear that old school Fear Factory sound once again. Jon is a good guy, was fun when Threat Signal came here.

I used to like Fear Factory back in the day. Though I never really got into anything post-Digimortal. I didn't dig the debut either, so I guess it's just the three albums (+the remix record) that I liked. How's the new stuff? I downloaded Archetype (I think) and it seemed a little bland.

Biert wrote:Ikea makes music now?

Yeah, but you have to assemble the CD with one of those little bent Allen key thingies.


EDIT: Cool demo. Didn't get too excited about the vox in the chorus, but the verse was good.

That is one thing about Jon. He has a great growl and good range with it, but his clean vocals are over used. I think he could really do a good job of using them more sparingly on this project and the new Threat Signal album.

sj_2150 wrote:i like everything except for the vocals. too run of the mill average metal singer voice

I agree, its too "New Wave of American Heavy Metal" sounding...still, the music itself is amazing.

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

Biert wrote:Ikea makes music now?

Yeah, but you have to assemble the CD with one of those little bent Allen key thingies.

You'll probably have a couple of tracks and some pages of the booklet missing with every purchase...

Biert wrote:

Spaceman Spiff wrote:

Biert wrote:Ikea makes music now?

Yeah, but you have to assemble the CD with one of those little bent Allen key thingies.

You'll probably have a couple of tracks and some pages of the booklet missing with every purchase...

Nonsense! Anything I ever bought from there had extra stuff in it! (probably the bits that were missing from yours).

Ah, so you have Biert's missing bits. Now if we could just locate his pieces...