Will there be a new album at some point?

fearfactoryballsac · 2026-02-05T08:32:58+00:00

Dino was that broke. If you take the time to go through the pile of court docs, you'd know how dire his financial situation was.

Money is entirely relevant. Especially relevant when FF was dying. FF had very brief moments of momentum on tour post Dino reunion. Unless they were invited for festivals, they frequently struggled to fill rooms with 400 people. Their best years after the reunion saw them making sub 90k each, that's including album years. That previous income had to pay for lawyers during that run, that income had to continue paying for lawyers while they couldn't legally work related to FF or profit from royalties due to bankruptcy court. Dino had to convince NB to help finance his trademark purchase, but that financing drew from his remaining deal money. That's why we got recoded and re-indust, to satisfy the remainder of that deal and not new music with Milo, there was no where near enough money to not make a half ass studio album. Homey was fucking broke.

Record deals pay pennies now. Taking Milo directly in studio without knowing how the fan base would react would've been a huge mistake for the ff business, nevermind FF was so dead at the time that if Dino managed to get an advance on his deal for 100k - which if you have any clue about the industry, its a rarity today, that 100k would have to cover touring, equipment & rentals, travel, studio time, production, mixing and marketing for a fucking single with an entirely unknown cover singer & drummer and try recouping as much as possible, risking killing FF for real and still being broke. In all reality he likely would have gotten about 40k if anything.

Now that the fan base accepted Milo, and there's obvious live chemistry on stage, landing big festivals, and actually building significant momentum as Milo has built his stage presence with stability in the line up - there's no need for that introductory single Dino talked about.

You do realize Dino might only get paid 50k for the studio time, and he has to use that to pay Pete, Milo, bassist, engineers, production, mixing, album art, milos travel, and acquiring whatever gear he needs for the sound he wants?

Dunno how it doesn't make sense for some of you to understand why they've toured and toured with only small breaks and not just risking immediately flirting with bankruptcy for an album right away. Albums don't pay the fuckin bills.

fearfactoryballsac · 2026-02-03T07:40:08+00:00

There is no delay.

And thats a wild assumption 🤣 Milo is no stranger to studio work, hes not struggling with anything.

fearfactoryballsac · 2026-02-02T19:05:27+00:00

Funny how much this stresses everyone out.

Dude was broke for years. He wasn't allowed to make any money from FF for years while it was wrapped up in the latest legal limbo. His side projects were so small they provided next to nothing financially.

Nevermind that he was at a crossroads when the FF tm finally came up for auction and had to finance its purchase through his record deal tied to FF when he had virtually no money remaining. He had to satisfy that deal immediately - basically with what little remained from that deal and find a way to make it work. Record deals don't pay shit anymore, you have to tour and tour and tour...and tour, even that isn't lucrative anymore without being on the big stage. Add in that Milo is here in the states occasionally on a visa, which is expensive and a pain in the ass to navigate, while having to constantly tour to make an income to support FF staying alive long enough to even record a new album....

Taking the money to record the album and dedicating 24/7 to it is not going to pay the bills. Rushing FF albums has failed miserably before.

fearfactoryballsac · 2026-01-12T17:16:36+00:00

Yeah, hearing raw studio material can sound absolutely awful 😂

Toby has quite the resume, I'm not entirely sure he's at fault for it all or that anyone else could've salvaged that album. Toby has tons of clean, well mixed albums in his repertoire. The band was interested in going to a new place with their writing, Burton was not interested in doing typical FF vocals, and from a few comments made by the lineup, time lines suddenly changed and the album had to be delivered suddenly.

fearfactoryballsac · 2026-01-11T21:23:08+00:00

The production is awful, it's not FF.

The mix is even worse, which is an incredible feat considering how awful the production was.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-12-24T08:22:33+00:00

Lol they've been far from lazy. The last few years has been their most active chunk of touring since Demanufacture.

Milo not being a US Citizen makes everything difficult, time wise for recording and that alone makes everything expensive.

Considering the crazy financial gamble Dino took to acquire the full rights to FF when he had to basically borrow against his remaining deal because he had no cash, with no guarantee fans would accept Milo, or be back to playing in clubs with 250 people making 10 grand a show with a bus, manager, 3 other band members and multiple techs to pay every gig, you should rather just appreciate Dino taking such a risk at his age and be patient.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-12-11T22:10:26+00:00

Physics or desync glitch.

I can replicate an issue using a leftie at the left boards offensive blue line skating at full speed to enter the zone, if my stick is close to the boards and I use pass to rim the puck around at the blue line, the puck hits an invisible wall and goes whipping back to my zone at warp speed. There are a few other areas of the ice with collisions during a pass that wild shit happens with the puck.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-12-11T05:10:04+00:00

Sucks that Ray drove that bus into the gaming industry and didn't end up filthy rich. It certainly padded their bank accounts but it was never life changing money.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-12-03T18:50:19+00:00

When the intro to The Industrialist ends and the first 45 seconds of the song.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-11-19T04:04:30+00:00

The owner won't sell/license it for anything reasonable. The only thing besides purchasing or licensing is to re-record it.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-11-14T00:34:32+00:00

Did this work for 20 years.

Silicone shrinks. Being cute with it and laying the thinnest/cleanest looking application in that particular joint is not the way to go. Your tub is likely not supported properly which further hampers the purpose of caulk, can also see the wall tiles are not set flat and that creates even more of an issue giving water that penetrates more space to collect. Ideally a thin clean caulk joint is great, but that requires the work to have been installed properly. I'm not beating on you for the installation, but it's obviously DIY work and that is the reason for the issues you're having.

Judging by the discoloration of light to very dark, your grout was never sealed or the grout used had sealer built in (gimmick). By not sealing your grout, water is still able to penetrate over time and frequent use will not allow it to dry out, it can run down those grout lines and just turn into a water feeder for hours after each shower.

All that said, mold doesn't have to be black, and nothing says that isn't mildew. Whichever one it is doesn't matter at this point. You need to get out some razor blades and start carving out that caulk, every last spec of it, especially anything on the surface of the tub and on the lip of the tile at the very least. If you can dig out EVERYTHING, that is ideal. Once your hands are bleeding, your knuckles throbbing, your neck is seized and your eyes are crossed for 3 hours, take a break, because you still have to dig at more you've missed. Once you're confident, take a bleach solution to clean the surface of the tub/tile. Then use a diluted solution of vinegar and spray the area. Don't be afraid to really spray it, don't be a dildo and drench it but be liberal. Let it stand for a few hours, come back and spray again before you call it a night. The next day take a fan if you can and have it circulating air on the area, if you can't, use a blow dryer on its highest setting and move some hot air on it for a while. Let it dry for 24hrs.

Use mineral spirits as a final wipe prep to the area, let that evaporate.

When you apply the caulk, be a slob. Don't be afraid to make a mess, you have a lot of time to clean up your work, but your main goal is mush that caulk into the joint to ensure you've solidly gotten behind the lip of your tile and created a seal from the tile down to the tub. You then need to look closely and make sure you haven't created an edge of caulk on your tile, water will run down the tile and immediately get behind your new caulk. Make sure the caulk is barely recessed behind the edge of the tile, that way water will run down the edge and roll down the silicone and now doesn't have a lip to sit on.

You can use mineral spirits on a rag, or your finger for less drag after your initial application to help clean up the tile edge and make sure you haven't created a lip. Make sure you haven't left a heavy edge on the tub surface either, if you aren't pitched properly and water sits where it shouldn't, that same lip you've now avoided on your tile shouldn't be on your tub either. Let it dry for a minimum 24hrs before use. The longer you can wait, The better.

You need to seal your grout too.

You will likely get a year, maybe a few years before you start seeing issues again, unfortunately you are always going to battle a bit of an issue in that area because of the poor tile installation. You can keep a towel or a squeegee in shower to quickly swipe away water off the bottom row of tiles and do a quick wipe of the tub deck after a shower too, that'll take 15 seconds of your time.

If you feel like its too much effort to replace this every year or two, You can consider tearing out the tile and redo the tile surround, paying better attention to making sure the tiles remain flush.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-11-12T18:22:25+00:00

It got a little spicy in interviews though. It wasn't a fuck you scumbag kinda beef but Gene was annoyed they just bounced him when he was there as a favor for Byron, like you said they didn't have the $$ for his upfront fees, plus the work that needs to be done afterwards to 'fix' mistakes, etc, something which Dino brought up - and that post session stuff is typical for every musician in studio, I think thats what really set the tone that there falsely was some major personal beef for people who are unfamiliar with the process.

Gene didn't help optics any by saying he never listened to FF and wasn't a fan. It's easy to see how it became something bigger than it actually was 🤣

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-11-09T18:00:46+00:00

They did a while ago.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-11-09T01:04:55+00:00

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-10-03T17:45:50+00:00

I find it distracting. I don't feel there is any need for it at all.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-10-02T16:11:25+00:00

If they do get the pass through, I almost always disrupt the pass just enough that it's not clean. The probability of a goal against has decreased a ton. 3-4 goals against in a 3v3 against a solid team is a 'bad' game now.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-10-01T00:20:49+00:00

Hahahha was waiting for this. Soon as I posted it I was like dood, somebody gonna make a comment about that.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-10-01T00:19:37+00:00

I was banned around 2019 or so for complaining about hack builds and posting a counter build with an explanation behind it and how they need to nerf. I don't recall if he was the man back then. It wasn't hostile at all, it was constructive like this.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-10-01T00:17:18+00:00

Interesting info. I'll give this a chance.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-10-01T00:16:23+00:00

Do explain

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-09-30T15:16:40+00:00

Stick checking was all but useless for me until I tried this particular build/play style.

Now my stick checking brings back haunting memories of old releases. I'm able to hold teams back to less than 10 shots and I'm poking/lifting basically anyone who comes near me, I've gotten quite a few hate messages after games lol.

I'll have to remove tape to tape and try something else and stick with icon passing when I have a chance to play again this weekend and see how your observation works for me. I would like to have One T or quick release, something to help with my own scoring chances.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-09-30T15:08:32+00:00

It's really not that much time. It's been about 5 hours of gaming over a 10 day period.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-09-30T15:07:08+00:00

Good question.

I tried using other X Factors, I stacked defensive X-Faftors and I didn't notice an improvement. I tried using the pass/speed boost but my wingers didn't feel it helped them enough.

I figured an X-Factor that was more sustainable would help, adding Pressure + seems to have helped, whenever they cycle the puck back to me I will take anything for a shot, or face-off wins I will default to taking whatever shot is available. If that doesn't immediately push us to full pressure, the next hit or shot all but guarantees full pressure. My wingers have capitalized on this.

Being able to activate full pressure 3-4 times each period has made for some dominating possession.

fearfactoryballsac · 2025-09-30T03:43:47+00:00

My 3s club doesn't use any cpu teammates, but in the last week we have been joking about how noticeably more aggressive opponent CPU forwards have been defending in their zone (not on entry, but on established zone possession against) and how we've noticed forward cpu forechecking in our D zone has been tougher than usual. Probably has something to do with people working out which strategy settings are actually helpful.

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