Q 01/05

Which rock band, recording next door at Bearsville Studios, asked Fear Factory to turn Demanufacture down?

A) Bon Jovi

B) Aerosmith

C) Def Leppard

D) Van Halen

Answer · why

A) Bon Jovi

Bon Jovi was cutting These Days when one of its engineers complained that Fear Factory's noise was bleeding into the drum microphones.

Q 02/05

Which British singer joined Fear Factory on its hit cover of his own 1979 chart-topper?

A) David Bowie

B) Adam Ant

C) Gary Numan

D) Billy Idol

Answer · why

C) Gary Numan

Gary Numan sang on the band's version of Cars and also speaks the sample that opens the title track of Obsolete.

Q 03/05

Fear Factory said Demanufacture, about a man battling a machine-run government, drew on which science-fiction film?

A) Total Recall

B) The Terminator

C) The Lawnmower Man

D) Westworld

Answer · why

B) The Terminator

The Terminator shaped an album on which each song is a chapter in one man's struggle against the machines that rule him.

Q 04/05

Fear Factory's EP Fear Is the Mindkiller quotes a litany against fear from which science-fiction novel?

A) Ubik

B) Solaris

C) Contact

D) Dune

Answer · why

D) Dune

Dune gave the EP its name, taken from the incantation Frank Herbert's characters recite to steady themselves, while the record itself holds remixes of...

Q 05/05

Fear Factory spent September 2010 opening arena shows in New Zealand and Japan for which band's World Magnetic Tour?

A) Iron Maiden

B) Slayer

C) Metallica

D) Motörhead

Answer · why

C) Metallica

Metallica's Christchurch dates went ahead weeks after the Canterbury earthquake, once the arena was found to be undamaged, with Fear Factory opening.