Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares recently spoke with Argentina’s Rock & Pop 95.9 about the band’s next studio album.
The record is tentatively expected in late 2026 or early 2027 through Nuclear Blast. It will mark Fear Factory’s first album with vocalist Milo Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber, both of whom have been part of the band’s touring lineup for more than three years.
Cazares shared the following:
Well, I think that Fear Factory’s riding on all cylinders. We’re a very tight unit. We have a record that’s gonna be coming out soon. We have a new single coming out in August, so I think people will be able to see and hear what we’ve been creating. Fear Factory, in the last three to four years, has been getting tighter, been getting better. Our live shows are killer.
Referring to the lyrically content steering towards A.I., Cazares added:
Yes. We’ve always been singing about that, since the beginning of Fear Factory, since our first record, ‘Soul Of A New Machine’, and that was basically just an introduction to who we are and what we were about. Obviously, the story progressed and the concept progressed to where we became obsolete, humanity becomes obsolete. And on this new record, all that’s left of humanity is fragments. And what’s left of humanity, we are fighting for de-extinction, in other words, to not become extinct. But there’s a whole other part of the story that’s with it too. But I don’t wanna talk about the new record, all of it, yet because it’s not coming out till later. If I tell you now, then there won’t be nothing to tell you later on.
Milo is a talented musician. He’s a talented singer. He can play a lot of instruments, keyboards, drums, guitar, bass, vocals. But on this record, he mainly did, of course he did all the vocals, but we shared a lot of the same lyrics. So we wrote lyrics together. It was good, creatively, to work with him, ’cause he’s a musician that understands all different aspects of the music and the instruments. So, creatively, it worked out great. He’s very familiar, ’cause Fear Factory’s one of his favorite bands, so he’s familiar with the classic elements of what makes Fear Factory. And so him, when he joined the band, he fit right in just like that. Not only the style of vocals, but also the style of what makes a Fear Factory song. And, yeah, he fit right in and he definitely has his own elements as well, besides the classic Fear Factory style.