Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares has spoken with Loudwire about the latest Fear Factory album ‘The Industrialist’ as well as the band’s tour in support of it. A couple of excerpts from the chat can be read below.
Cazares explained that the ‘The Industrialist’ has been embraced by Fear Factory fans across the globe: “The reception has been great. Worldwide, it’s been really well accepted. In America, we hit the Billboard charts which has been great. Across Europe, too, and in Canada, we’re like No. 1 on iTunes. The response has been killer.”
As with several of its predecessors, ‘The Industrialist’ is an album based on a man vs machine concept. However, this time around Fear Factory are telling the story from a different perspective. “It focuses on the near future where we have created robots, called automatons, to assist humans with everyday life,” Cazares said. “There was a glitch in the system and we wanted to eradicate all automatons, but they became sentient and smarter and wanted to co-exist with humans. The Industrialist in the story is fighting for more life. That’s the war that’s going on with this record.”
Cazares also defended Fear Factory’s decision to use a drum machine instead of a live drummer on the new record. “At the end of the day, when we recorded live drums in the past, we’ve always used the computer to line up all the drums to make it tighter. We’d move every snare hit, every kick hit, every tom hit to make it more precise. We’d change the actual drum tone to make it more manufactured. At the end of the day, was it really still a human playing? Why even spend the money or take the time to teach someone to do it when we can just do it ourselves? So that’s what we did.”
Fear Factory’s ‘The World Industrial Tour 2012′ resumes on August 1 in Fresno, California. Cazares says that fans should expect a brutal and energetic Fear Factory show. “We have a couple new guys. Matt DeVries from Chimaira is our new bassist. Mike Heller from the band Malignancy is our new drummer. They’ll add a lot of new energy. Fear Factory has gotten really aggressive with some of our past records and that makes for a really f—ing energetic show and I love it.”
Click here to read the full interview.
Upcoming Fear Factory tour dates:
8/1 – Fresno, Calif.
8/2 – San Diego, Calif.
8/3 – Tempe, Ariz.
8/5 – Las Vegas, Nev.
8/7 – Albuquerque, N.M.
8/9 – Cave In Rock, Ill.
8/10 – Ft. Wayne, Ind.
8/11 – Twin Lakes, Wis.
8/12 – Chesterfield, Mich.
8/14 – Pittsburgh, Pa.
8/15 – Sayreville, N.J.
8/16 – Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
8/17 – Reading, Pa.
8/18 – San Juan, Puerto Rico
8/19 – Amityville, N.Y.
‘The Industrialist’ comes as the first Fear Factory album to feature Cazares and vocalist Burton C. Bell since 2001s ‘Digimortal’.
OK, I’m guessing you forgot about ‘Mechanize’ which only came out a couple of years ago and was toured internationally….
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