Latest Release
- 23 JUN 2023
- 16 Songs
- Obsolete · 1998
- Demanufacture · 1995
- Digimortal · 2001
- Demanufacture · 1995
- Demanufacture · 1995
- Obsolete · 1998
- Aggression Continuum · 2021
- Genexus · 2015
- Obsolete · 1998
- Obsolete · 1998
Music Videos
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007
- 2007
Artist Playlists
- Some of the most brutal industrial metal in the genre's history.
Singles & EPs
About Fear Factory
Fear Factory were among the earliest disciples to preach industrial metal’s dystopian gospel to the headbanging masses. Though the Los Angelenos began life as a death-metal act in 1989, they grew by leaps and bounds before churning out a trio of records—1992’s Soul of a New Machine, 1995’s Demanufacture and 1998’s Obsolete—that fully integrated cyberpunk electronics and mechanised riffage into their bulldozing grooves. Pushing them over the top was the singular Burton C. Bell, one of the first heavy-metal screamers to shift between hellish growls and clean vocals. By the late ’90s, a growing number of nu-metal, alt-metal and metalcore acts were pulling ideas from the group’s innovatively futuristic sound. It’s an impressive accomplishment, considering Fear Factory have remained a bona fide cult act, their only modern-rock hit being a cover of Gary Numan’s New Wave classic “Cars” released in 1999. Since the turn of the century, they’ve battled through personnel changes and temporary breakups to deliver albums like 2012’s The Industrialist and 2021’s Aggression Continuum that further digitise their suffocating vision of our modern technological society.
- ORIGIN
- Los Angeles, CA, United States
- FORMED
- 31 de octubre de 1990
- GENRE
- Metal