Industrial metal pioneers FEAR FACTORY commemorated 30 years since the release of their landmark second album, "Demanufacture," with a full-album performance on July 18 at Ace Of Spades in Bogotá, Colombia. Fan-recorded footage of the show has since surfaced online via El Expreso Del Rock's YouTube channel.
The band played "Demanufacture" front to back — opening with the title track and moving through "Self Bias Resistor," "Zero Signal," "Replica," "New Breed," a cover of Head Of David's "Dog Day Sunrise," "Body Hammer," "Flashpoint," "H-K (Hunter-Killer)," "Pisschrist" and closer "A Therapy For Pain" — before returning for an encore stacked with additional catalog staples: "Shock," "Edgecrusher," "Linchpin," "Powershifter," "Martyr" and "Resurrection."
Released in 1995, "Demanufacture" is widely regarded as one of the genre-defining records of industrial metal, pairing Dino Cazares's percussive, palm-muted riffing with Burton C. Bell's alternating clean vocals and guttural screams and a rhythmic precision that influenced a generation of heavier bands. Cazares has spoken about the album's legacy on multiple occasions over the years, once noting, "Some people didn't realize that it was real... it was such a tight record. I was very happy that I was able to create a sound that people still admire today," and crediting it elsewhere with helping "define the genre of industrial metal." He has also said he still returns to the record's arrangements for inspiration: "I go back sometimes just to listen to the structures... I apply those structures into newer songs."
The Bogotá performance came years after Bell's acrimonious 2024 exit from the band, a departure he attributed to prolonged legal disputes and creative burnout, saying at the time, "These lawsuits just drained me. The egos. The greed... I just lost my love for it." FEAR FACTORY has continued forward with Cazares as its remaining original member, now joined by vocalist Milo Silvestro, bassist Tony Campos and drummer Pete Webber — a lineup that has kept "Demanufacture" and the band's broader catalog in regular rotation on stages worldwide.
With Silvestro set to appear on FEAR FACTORY's next single, due in August, the Bogotá anniversary show doubled as both a tribute to the band's most influential record and a reminder of how much its current lineup still leans on the album that first put FEAR FACTORY on the map three decades ago.