Moody & Nacho

"Then unfortunately we had hired a producer named Colin Richardson, who we used on the first album, to do the second album. But we had surpassed what he thought we should sound like. So we got rid of him."

The current lineup are choosing not to live through their past glories

"We’ve found over the years that Fear Factory fans stay Fear Factory fans for life. They keep coming to the shows, keep buying the records, and some of the older ones even bring their kids to see us as well."

The conceptual scene is set, on the stunning title track and opener, as looped samples and spoken-word head a mounting crescendo, which detonates into a fury of controlled riffs and mechanical blast beats that are systematically scrutinised by a scanning synth beam.

The band will be here in September.

In the ‘90s, critics dubbed Fear Factory “futuristic metal” or “cyber-metal”. More than a decade on, one supposes now they’re merely “metal”.