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What is Fear Factory's soul of a new machine?
Fear Factory debut album Soul of a New Machine (1992), which was recorded with producer Colin Richardson, gave the band greater exposure in the music scene.
Why did Fear Factory's Soul of a New Machine give the band greater exposure in the music scene?
Fear Factory's debut album was characterized by an industrial death metal sound that combined Bell's melodic and harsh vocals, Herrera's machine-like drums, the death metal riffs of Dino Cazares.

Question: Were they trying to get away from death metal?
Self-contained rewrite: Were Fear Factory trying to get away from death metal?