FEAR FACTORY The Industrialist CD (2012)

Burton C. Bell once said the machine always wins. The Industrialist, released in 2012, is Fear Factory's most literal argument for that thesis, a concept record about an android soldier questioning its own existence set to Dino Cazares riffs that hit like a hydraulic press on a lunch break.

This is Fear Factory at their most dystopian and locked-in, the chunky syncopated groove metal of Demanufacture and Obsolete channelled through a leaner, meaner production that sits somewhere between industrial metal and outright science fiction. The title track, Recharger, and New Messiah are the kind of songs that make you feel like you should be striding through a burning factory with a purpose. Whether you fell in with them through Ministry, Static-X, or came via the Melbourne metal underground, The Industrialist rewards the listen.

Full length album on CD, 2012 USA pressing. Groove and industrial metal for fans of Machine Head, Ministry, White Zombie, Pantera, Soulfly, Gojira, Static-X, and Chimera.

Fans of: Machine Head, Ministry, White Zombie, Static-X, Gojira