Metal
Fear Factory will release “Roboticist” on 9 April 2027 through Nuclear Blast. The band have shared its second single, “Detonizer”, with a video directed by Thomas Mignone that picks up the sci-fi story begun in the clip for the title track, which came out at the end of August.
It’s the first album by the current line-up: Dino Cazares on guitar, Milo Silvestro on vocals, Tony Campos on bass and Pete Webber on drums. Damien Rainaud produced, engineered, mixed and mastered it at Mix Unlimited, and he’s also credited on keyboards. The artwork is by Jean-Baptiste Robilliard.
Cazares sums up the storyline: “Cybernetic Industries has seized control of artificial intelligence, orchestrating humanity’s extinction […] The machines have inherited the future.”
The album runs to eleven tracks: “Roboticist”, “Decentralization”, “Detonizer”, “Eradicator”, “Welcome to the Factory”, “Unsynthesizable”, “No Blood No Flesh”, “Synthetic Savior”, “Neural Infection Scanner”, “De-Extinction” and “Fragments”. It’s out on CD and on vinyl, in five colour variants and a picture disc.
On Friday the band start a thirteen-date US tour with Darkest Hour and Brotality in Wichita, finishing on 29 November at the Whisky in Los Angeles.
Text by Roger Estivill