FEAR FACTORY will release their new studio album, Roboticist, on April 9, 2027 via Nuclear Blast. The label opened pre-orders today, describing the record as a new chapter in the band's industrial metal evolution: a dystopian vision of humanity's future built on mechanized aggression, crushing riffs and cybernetic intensity.
According to Nuclear Blast, Roboticist explores the boundaries between man and machine, life and death, control and rebellion, and is meant as "a soundtrack for the rise of a new species". That is familiar ground for a band that has been staging the war between flesh and circuitry since Demanufacture, and Dino Cazares has already hinted at where the story goes this time. In an interview with Metal Injection, the guitarist described a world in which humanity survives only in fragments, with little hope left, until a new form of life emerges. He also said that every song will get its own written synopsis explaining the lyrics, to be shared through the band's website and social media.
Roboticist is FEAR FACTORY's first album since 2021's Aggression Continuum and the first full-length without original vocalist Burton C. Bell, who left the band in 2020. It is also the studio debut of singer Milo Silvestro, who joined in 2023 and finally appeared on record with the single "Roboticist" this August — we covered its release, and FEAR FACTORY played it live for the first time in Poznań on the day it came out. Drummer Pete Webber also makes his full-length debut with the band. Cazares has said that Silvestro wrote much of the lyrics, with bassist Ricky Bonazza contributing too, and that Silvestro alone wrote the closing track, which the guitarist called a cinematic, post-human epic.
The album is available for pre-order on CD and as a silver double vinyl. Nuclear Blast is also offering a limited "The Mind Moves On" vinyl with a signed card, capped at 700 copies, along with exclusive new merch and a T-shirt bundle.
The tracklist has not been revealed yet.
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