Fear Factory Drop "Detonizer," Announce New Album, 'Roboticist,' Out April 9th

Finally, after months of fan speculation and tentative statements from the band, influential industrial metal institution Fear Factory have announced the release date for their eleventh studio album. Entitled Roboticist, the new album arrives April 6th via Nuclear Blast Records. The physical release will include a series of special limited-edition vinyls. Pre-order and pre-save available here.

Roboticist is co-produced by guitarist Dino Cazares and Damien Rainaud (DragonForce, Wings of Steel, Once Human, Glyph) and is their first with new singer Milo Silvestro and new drummer Pete Webber. Rainaud previously collaborated with the band on 2015's Genexus and 2021's Aggression Continuum. This album is the follow-up to 2023's Re-Industrialized, the expanded edition of the band's 2012 album The Industrialist.

See Fear Factory Live (US/NA)

See Fear Factory Live (EU/UK)

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Fear Factory (@fearfactory)

The following statement accompanied this album announcement:

Fear Factory unleashes a new chapter in its relentless industrial metal evolution with Roboticist! A dystopian vision of humanity’s future collides with mechanized aggression, crushing riffs, and cybernetic intensity. Exploring the boundaries between man and machine, life and death, and control and rebellion, Roboticist is a soundtrack for the rise of a new species.

In a statement, Cazares teases the concept behind the album:

Cybernetic Industries has seized control of artificial intelligence, orchestrating humanity’s extinction. The machines have inherited the future. NO BLOOD. NO FLESH. ALL MACHINE. Welcome to the age of ROBOTICIST.

Along with this announcement comes the album's second single, "Detonizer." The track, composed by Cazares with lyrics by Cazares and Silvestro and co-produced by Cazares and Damien Rainaud (DragonForce, Wings of Steel, Once Human, Glyph), showcases the band in full mechanized glory. Musically, the track features the band's trademark robotic extended-range riffage, and furious verses buttress pristine clean choruses with melancholic keys. Lyrically, Silvestro details his fight against a Terminator-like cybernetic onslaught, a battle of machines against indomitable human will. The track expands the scope of the lead single/title track "Roboticist" with a more ambitious structure and electronic flourishes without sacrificing the aggression and impact.

Cogs grind in fear when I strike the grid / Overclocked rage where the fail-safes slid / I am what's left of the spark of man / Doomed to detonate / I am your termination / I am your detonation

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Fear Factory (@fearfactory)

Roboticist track list:

1. Roboticist
2. Decentralization
3. Detonizer
4. Eradicator
5. Welcome to the Factory
6. Unsynthesizable
7. No Blood No Flesh
8. Synthetic Savior
9. Neural Infection Scanner
10. De-Extinction
11. Fragments

Fear Factory are currently on the road finishing up their co-headlining Soul Of A New War Machine Tour with Mushroomhead. After that, the band will begin their Cybernetic Domination Tour with Darkest Hour and Brotality. That tour will culminate in a special engagement at Whisky A Go-Go with additional special guests and the band playing Demanufacture in its entirety on Saturday, followed by a complete performance of Obsolete on Sunday. Then, in December, the band will perform a run of shows in Mexico, including Heavy Metal Xmas. The band's 2027 touring calendar is taking shape with stops already set for Welcome To Rockville, Sonic Temple, Fajtfest 18, Rockharz, Dong Open Air, and Festival Laurus Nobilis Music Fest. Click here for tickets and info.

Check out upcoming dates and the epic Thomas Mignone-directed music video for "Detonizer" below.

Re-Industrialized, is out now on Nuclear Blast Records.

Soul Of A New War Machine Tour
11/10 Sauget, IL @ Pop's
11/11 Nashville, TN @ Basement East

CYBERNETIC DOMINATION TOUR (US)
11/13 Wichita, KS @ Wave
11/14 Denver, CO @ Oriental Theater
11/15 Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
11/17 Billings, MT @ Pub Station
11/18 Great Falls, MT @ The Newberry
11/20 Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
11/21 Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/22 Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
11/24 Fresno, CA @ Strummers
11/25 San Diego, CA @ House Of Blues
11/27 Pomona, CA @ The Glasshouse