FEAR FACTORY Releases First Single With New Singer MILO SILVESTRO, ‘Roboticist’

Fear Factory have released “Roboticist”, their first single featuring singer Milo Silvestro and drummer Pete Webber, signalling what guitarist Dino Cazares describes as a new era for the industrial metal band. The release matters because it is the group’s first new recorded material with musicians who have already spent nearly three and a half years in its touring line-up, following a period focused on performing its older catalogue.

Released through Nuclear Blast and premiered on SiriusXM Liquid Metal, the track was produced, engineered, mixed and mastered by Damien Rainaud, with a video directed by Vincente Cordero. Its lyrics centre on a roboticist, portrayed as an “architect of the artificial” building machines intended to outlast human flesh, continuing Fear Factory’s long-running focus on artificial intelligence, technology and human control; Cazares said the band did not use AI to write the music, although it is embedded in modern recording software.