Dino Cazares says the Fear Factory new album will sound like Fear Factory, with some twists. In a new interview with GRIMM Gent, transcribed by Blabbermouth, the guitarist called the upcoming full-length “diverse,” saying it has familiar elements “but it also goes into different elements as well.” No title, release date or tracklist has been announced. Before any of that, the band plays House of Blues San Diego on Wednesday, Nov. 25.
What Dino Said About the Fear Factory New Album
“I love the [upcoming FEAR FACTORY full-length] record, and I can’t wait for people to hear the rest of it,” Cazares said. “It is diverse. It does have a lot of FEAR FACTORY elements that people know, but it also goes into different elements as well. And, of course, Milo does introduce different styles of vocals.”
He described the latest single, “Roboticist,” the first taste of the Fear Factory new album, as “just a really quick banger just to get it out there,” and said the next song will be a change: “I think the new song that we’ve got coming out after this is gonna be a little different too. But you’re still gonna say, ‘Okay, that’s still FEAR FACTORY.'”
Silvestro’s vocals are a big part of the Fear Factory new album story. Cazares also pushed back on fans comparing new singer Milo Silvestro to original vocalist Burton C. Bell. “I’ve read so many comments where some people are, like, ‘It’s too much like FEAR FACTORY.’ ‘It’s not enough like FEAR FACTORY.’ ‘He’s [Milo] too much like [original FEAR FACTORY singer] Burt [Burton C. Bell].’ ‘He’s not enough like Burt.’ And it’s, like, you can’t win, so you put it out and hope for the best.”
Man and Machine, and A.I.
On the lyrics, Cazares didn’t give away the concept of the Fear Factory new album, but said the band’s long-running theme is still there. “That’s been our concept since day one. If you go back to the first record, ‘Soul Of A New Machine’, that was basically the birth of this concept,” he said. “It’s really the relationship between man and technology.”
He added that “these are elements that we’ve talked about in the past that are now here,” and spent a long stretch of the interview on A.I., saying “we let A.I. into our lives” through phones, apps and algorithms. He pointed to the band’s Obsolete album as an example of the band writing about technology changing everyday life, citing print magazines and FM radio.
How ‘Roboticist’ Came Together
“Roboticist,” released in late August via Nuclear Blast, is the first Fear Factory release with Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber, who Blabbermouth says have been in the touring lineup for more than three and a half years. Cazares said the song started as an instrumental he wrote three years ago to demo his Toneforge Disruptor plugin, with “clean tones, lo-fi tones, all my different types of distorted tones.” When Silvestro “sang the hook, I was, like, ‘That’s it. That’s it.’ It needed to be released,” he said. The band rearranged it for vocals, and the old end section is now the midsection.
Damien Rainaud produced, engineered, mixed and mastered the track. Its video was directed by Vincente Cordero and produced by Arion Csihar. Silvestro’s addition was announced in February 2023, and the band’s first headlining show with him and Webber was May 5, 2023 at the Whisky A Go Go.
Fear Factory at House of Blues San Diego
Blabbermouth says the band’s November U.S. run, the U.S. leg of the “Cybernetic Domination” tour with Darkest Hour and Brotality, starts right after its co-headlining tour with Mushroomhead. The San Diego date is on the books: the Ticketmaster event listing for the Fear Factory Cybernetic Domination Tour 2026 is dated Nov. 25, 2026 in San Diego, and listings including JamBase show it at House of Blues San Diego with Darkest Hour and Brotality, doors at 6 p.m. It’s the night before Thanksgiving.
Details are on our Fear Factory event listing and in our Fear Factory San Diego show preview. It’s too early to say whether any Fear Factory new album songs beyond “Roboticist” will make the set.
What’s Still Unknown
- The Fear Factory new album’s title and release date
- The tracklist and the next single’s title
- Whether the album is coming out on Nuclear Blast, which released “Roboticist”
For more on veteran bands with new records on the way, see the new Snot album, Ministry’s final album and our look at metal music in 2025. We’ll update this post when the Fear Factory new album gets a name and date.
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