After Dino Cazares left Fear Factory that band would never be the same again without Cazares’ trademark riffage. Vocalist Burton C. Bell figured that out as well after a while and started concentrating more on his Ascension of the Watchers project. And so Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera had to find something else to do with their time and started Arkaea. They then recruited Threat Signal’s Jon Howard and Pat Kavanagh to round things up and headed for the studio with a bunch of songs that were originally written for the next FF album. Which explains why “Years In The Darkness” sounds a lot like a light version of Fear Factory with a terrible vocalist to boot. The shouting is still okay but once the clean vocals come in, I’m cringing. Especially take note of the chorus in “Beneath The Shades Of Grey” which sounds like something a 4-year-old would sing.
In the meantime Cazares and Bell relaunched Fear Factory without Olde Wolbers and Herrera which is kinda funny if you think about it. Let’s hope that new album will sound a lot better than “Years In The Darkness”, which reminded me a lot of Bleed The Sky as well. And hey… wait a minute… weren’t they those Fear Factory copycats? Which would make Arkaea a copy of an already poor copy? Yikes!
Score: 4 out of 10
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