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Fear Is the Mindkiller Fear Is the Mindkiller Fear Is the Mindkiller is a remix EP containing remixes of songs from the first album "Soul of a New Machine" by Fear Factory. It was released on April 14, 1993 by Roadrunner Records. Remixes 1-5 were remixed by Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb of Front Line Assembly. The EP was remastered and re-released on October 5, 2004 in a digipak, packaged together with the remastered "Soul of a New Machine" without Self Immolation. The title of the record is a quote from "Litany against fear", a fictional incantation from "Dune", the science fiction novel written