Industrial metal veterans FEAR FACTORY have announced a new single featuring vocalist Milo Silvestro, set to arrive in August, marking the band's first fresh material since Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber joined the fold more than three years ago.
Guitarist Dino Cazares, the band's sole constant member, described the current lineup — rounded out by bassist Tony Campos, who splits his touring schedule with STATIC-X — as a tight, road-tested unit. "We're a very tight unit... our live shows are killer," Cazares said, pointing to years of touring together as the foundation for the upcoming release.
Cazares praised Silvestro's contributions beyond the microphone, calling him "a talented musician" and "a talented singer" who took an active hand in shaping the new material's lyrics. The August single will serve as the first preview of a full-length album expected in late 2026 or early 2027 through Nuclear Blast Records — the band's first complete studio effort with its current singer and drummer.
Cazares expressed confidence that longtime fans and newcomers alike will respond to the new direction. "I 100% believe that people are gonna love this shit, 'cause it's new, it's brutal, it's heavy, it's melodic," he said, framing the material as a continuation of FEAR FACTORY's signature man-versus-machine sound rather than a reinvention of it.
Thematically, the new material extends the artificial intelligence and technology concerns that have run through FEAR FACTORY's catalog since "Demanufacture." Cazares said the concept has sharpened further this time, pushing into questions of human extinction and the unsettling possibility of "de-extinction" — ideas that dovetail with the band's decades-long fascination with humanity's uneasy relationship with the machines it builds.
FEAR FACTORY will keep the new songs in front of audiences well before the album lands. The band has a co-headlining run booked with MUSHROOMHEAD, followed by a November U.S. tour billed "Cybernetic Domination" alongside DARKEST HOUR and BROTALITY — a package that keeps FEAR FACTORY's industrial-thrash attack paired with acts from adjacent corners of extreme metal.
With Silvestro and Webber now three years into their tenure, the August single represents less an introduction than a confirmation: FEAR FACTORY's newest lineup is ready to put its stamp on the band's next full-length chapter.