Fear Factory Activate New Era

2026-09-01 by John Marinakis CONTRIBUTOR | 27 Comments
Fear Factory have released Roboticist, their first new song in five years and their first studio recording with vocalist Milo Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber.

Silvestro joined the industrial metal veterans in 2023, replacing founding singer Burton C. Bell, who departed three years earlier. Although the new lineup has toured extensively since then, Roboticist provides its first opportunity to be heard on record.

The song continues Fear Factory's longstanding examination of the conflict between humanity and technology. Its central character is an architect of artificial intelligence who creates machines capable of outlasting the human body, only to lose control of what he has unleashed.

Roboticist was released on August 29, the date on which Skynet becomes self-aware in the sci-fi classic Terminator 2: Judgment Day. While the song does not directly reference the film, guitarist Dino Cazares acknowledged its thematic connection to the franchise.

Produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Damien Rainaud, the single is accompanied by a Vincente Cordero-directed music video:




Cazares has also revealed that Fear Factory's forthcoming eleventh album is expected in 2027. The ten-track record will include Roboticist and the planned second single, Detonizer.

https://www.rocking.gr/news/fear-factory-release-new-single-roboticist-new-singer-video/46657

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arthropod
September 1st 2026
3802 Comments


The SOiL guy died? None of my concern, but the song slaps.

Imperial
September 1st 2026
2177 Comments


Wow that dude sounds exactly like Burton C Bell.

laterenima
September 1st 2026
293 Comments


Nice slappin' Tears for Fears chorus

laterenima
September 1st 2026
293 Comments


Nice slappin' Tears for Fears chorus

Bloma
September 1st 2026
323 Comments


Nice production but I find most modern nu-metal is:

heavy shit

HERE'S THE MELODIC CHORUS, DOESN'T MATTER WHAT CAME BEFORE IT

heavy shit

Bloma
September 1st 2026
323 Comments


double post

asanisimasa
September 1st 2026
211 Comments


yea very boring, but better than bad?

keaton_86
September 1st 2026
1731 Comments


"Nice production but I find most modern nu-metal is:

heavy shit

HERE'S THE MELODIC CHORUS, DOESN'T MATTER WHAT CAME BEFORE IT

heavy shit"

Exactly. I heard slaughter to prevail or yesteday for the first time and it was exactly this. Drum samples sounded exactly the same as every other metal band for the past 15 years, compressed as fuck. Sounded like it was created on a laptop. Booo

pourradass
September 1st 2026
1297 Comments


about time

TheTripP
September 1st 2026
5048 Comments


sick song and catchy chorus!

Dizchu
September 1st 2026
911 Comments


He's a fine singer and everything but the older I get, the more I hate the mandatory Fear Factory clean choruses.

Also, lol... fuckin' Dino.

Brabiz
September 1st 2026
3186 Comments


This feels like an Instagram ad I would get of some band with 500 followers who really like Fear Factory. Solid 4/10

arthropod
September 1st 2026
3802 Comments


The video is edgy as shit but at least they seem to be having fun. These robot hands are hilarious.

artiswar
September 1st 2026
17263 Comments


I wonder if the robot hands are a passive-aggressive dig at Burton. "My robot hands are cooler than your robot hands bitch!"

DarkSideOfLucca
September 1st 2026
19846 Comments


Fear factory is like a top 10-top 15 band for me cause of demanufacture and obsolete alone (even though I really dig a lot of other albums that aren’t transgression)

Seen Milo live with them like 3 times now so I knew he’d kill this - I DO hope that the rest of the album is more interesting though and this is just a single to show people he can sound like FF (he is the perfect replacement imo) but as is, this is like way too straight forward and there’s not much interesting stuff going on here

Excited as hell to hear a full release though

DarkSideOfLucca
September 1st 2026
19846 Comments


Double Post

lucazade22
September 1st 2026
1281 Comments


Dig this! I loved Aggression Continuum and this is along a similar vein. New vocalist sounds good, too. Looking forward to the new album!

pourradass
September 2nd 2026
1297 Comments


the band is basically a one-trick pony at this point but still (to my knowledge) different enough from the rest of the scene that I also still enjoy them (transgression aside)

lucazade22
September 2nd 2026
1281 Comments


Agreed, Transgression sucked

sanji999
September 2nd 2026
65 Comments


i swear burton bell is secretly recording the vocals, he just doesnt want the attention lol but song actually slaps very much, on a second listen its already catchy af, but i still wish they would diversify their songs, its industrial breakdown + ultra melodic chorus and back again and while this formula works effortlessly for them, I still want to hear some suprises. Love the band so much

lucazade22
September 2nd 2026
1281 Comments


I too wish they'd go for a catchy melodic chorus but not with the ultra cleans every time...a bit like Slave Labor off Archetype. I'd love some more tracks like that. But, that said, loving this!

KevinKC
September 2nd 2026
1612 Comments


@sanji999 I wish Burton was secretly writing the lyrics as well.

KevinKC
September 2nd 2026
1612 Comments


@pourradass
The band is not a one trick pony.
Each album is built in a similar way sure, but they have something like 6 different types of songs on each one.

pourradass
September 3rd 2026
1297 Comments


@Kev That's what I meant. They're like AC/DC, you've heard one you've heard them all, at least since Archetype (and ignoring Transgression). Not necessarily a bad thing.

KevinKC
September 3rd 2026
1612 Comments


I was defending them because I actually think that the band is starting to repeat itself problematically, so I thought you were pointing at that.
I think Aggression Continuum suffered from this "nothing new" aspect.

Dizchu
September 7th 2026
911 Comments


never got the hate for Transgression tbh

arthropod
September 7th 2026
3802 Comments


The opener is decent for sure.



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