The Fear Factory San Diego show is set. The industrial metal pioneers bring their Cybernetic Domination Tour to House of Blues on Wednesday, Nov. 25, with Darkest Hour and Brotality, per the Live Nation listing. It’s the night before Thanksgiving, so plan around the holiday traffic.
The run was announced back on March 11. Metal Injection has Darkest Hour as direct support and Brotality, a thrash/groove trio, opening.
Fear Factory San Diego show details
- Date: Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2026
- Venue: House of Blues San Diego, 1055 5th Ave., downtown
- Lineup: Fear Factory, Darkest Hour, Brotality
- Times: Doors 6 p.m., show 7 p.m., per the listing’s event note, which says all times and supporting acts are subject to change
- Ages: All ages. The listing says anyone under 18 must be with a parent or guardian, or with a responsible adult 25 or older who has written authorization from a parent or guardian
- Tickets: On sale through Live Nation/Ticketmaster. Prices weren’t shown on the listing we checked
Because it’s all ages, the Fear Factory San Diego show is one you can bring a younger fan to, as long as you follow the listing’s rules above. We’ve also got the show on the SDMETAL events calendar.
Where the tour goes around San Diego
San Diego sits in the final stretch of a 13-date run that started in Wichita, Kansas, per Blabbermouth. The band plays Strummers in Fresno the night before, on Nov. 24, takes Thanksgiving off, then hits The Glass House in Pomona on Nov. 27.
The tour ends with two nights at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles on Nov. 28 and 29, and those are different shows. Dino Cazares said the band will play two albums in full there: Demanufacture the first night and Obsolete the second. He was clear that’s Los Angeles only, so the Fear Factory San Diego set won’t be a full-album show.
We’re hitting places we haven’t played in a while, and we can’t wait to play with our friends in Darkest Hour and the newcomers Brotality.
Dino Cazares, via Blabbermouth
He also told fans to grab something from the merch table, and the band will “gladly sign it and take photos with you after the show (wherever the venue allows it).”
Who’s in Fear Factory now
The current lineup is Cazares on guitar, Milo Silvestro on vocals, Pete Webber on drums and Tony Campos on bass, per Nuclear Blast. Silvestro and Webber had been in the touring lineup for more than three years when the tour was announced, and the March announcement said the next album would be their first release with the band. In that same interview Cazares mentioned Ricky Bonazza, who fills in on bass for Campos.
Fear Factory San Diego fans who’ve only seen this lineup play the classics now have new material to go on. “Roboticist” came out Aug. 29 through Nuclear Blast, the recording debut of the current lineup. Damien Rainaud produced, engineered, mixed and mastered it.
What about the new album?
In March, Blabbermouth said the long-awaited new album was tentatively due later in 2026 via Nuclear Blast. That hasn’t happened, and no title or date has been announced. In September, Silvestro told Metalitalia the next single should come out around November and that the band hopes to release the album in February or March 2027. Treat that as a hope, not a release date. Nuclear Blast’s own “Roboticist” post said only that “critical intel on the upcoming album is imminent.”
Cazares said in March that the record will have one concept running through it, with a narration for each song, built on the band’s old theme of organic versus digital. Whether any new songs make the Fear Factory San Diego set isn’t known; no setlist has been posted.
Before the Fear Factory San Diego date
Fear Factory are in the middle of a co-headlining run with Mushroomhead and Mongolian folk metal band Nine Treasures right now. Per Metal Injection, it started Oct. 13 in New Haven, Connecticut, and wraps Nov. 11 in Nashville, and the band’s site lists Cybernetic Domination picking up in Wichita on Nov. 13. After San Diego and the LA shows, they head to Mexico for Monterrey on Dec. 17, Hermosillo on Dec. 18 and Heavy Metal Xmas at Circo Volador in Mexico City on Dec. 19. If you want more House of Blues before Thanksgiving, our Demon Hunter preview covers this week’s show there. Otherwise, circle Nov. 25 for the Fear Factory San Diego date.
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