Began recording Magnified

The band were unsatisfied with the sound of Comfort and their lack of involvement in the mixing process; they wanted a more flattering, produced sound that went beyond Albini’s style of essentially documenting a band’s raw live sound. So when the band went back into the studio in 1993, Andrews and Edwards took on the role of producers themselves. Midway through these sessions, Gauss left the band, so Edwards played some drums himself, until a replacement was found in Kellii Scott. Their second album, Magnified , was released in March 1994; a promotional video (the band’s first) was made for the single “Undone”, but it received little airtime, if any, on any of the traditional music video outlets. Critics took note of the sonic and musical advances achieved on Magnified , and other more well-known musicians also began singing Failure’s praises. That year, they again went on tour with Tool, and during Failure’s set each night, Tool guitarist Adam Jones joined them onstage to play rhythm guitar on the Comfort track “Macaque”.