Fear Factory Announce Tour, Playing Demanufacture in Full

The iconic and innovative extreme metal band Fear Factory have just announced Australian tour dates for July, in which they will play their 1995 classic Demanufacture in full.

Widely regarded as the band's best disc and a minor watershed in 90s music, the album was arguably where industrial music, extreme metal and alternative rock met for the first time. Many current trends of heavy music were pioneered on Demanufacture, like the good-cop/bad-cop clean vocal approach that switches between screaming and singing, or the brutal lock-step of busy double-kicks and guitar chugs. Metal Hammer has gone so far to claim that the album was 'so far ahead of its time that bands are still failing to rip it off convincingly today'.

After disbanding in 2006, Fear Factory reunited in 2009 with vocalist Burton C. Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares as the core of the lineup, which currently features bassist Matt DeVries (ex-Six Feet Under, ex-Chimaira) and drummer Mike Heller. Controversially, the Demanufacture rhythm section of drummer Raymond Herrera and bassist Christian Olde Wolbers have never been invited to return to the reunited Fear Factory.

Tickets are on sale from 9am Thursday 30 May, via Ticketek.