Fear Factory
Metal
The next Fear Factory concert is scheduled for Monday, July 21, 2025 at Musikzentrum Sedel in Emmenbrücke, Switzerland. See all 7 upcoming concerts
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About Fear Factory
Hometown
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Formed
October 31, 1990
Genre
Metal
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 mechanized 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 digitize their suffocating vision of our modern technological society.
Members of Fear Factory include, or have included, Dino Cazares, Raymond Herrera, Christian Olde Wolbers and more.
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