A mainstay of 90s and early 00s metal, Fear Factory are a band whose influence has been felt keenly on both nu metal and industrial metal alike. Their second album, Demanufacture is, Weaver argues, a hugely important record on metal music in general, so this week we take a tour of the band’s history and more.

Despite having been a band for over 30 years at this point, Fear Factory have only released ten albums. In fact, their latest one came out only a week ago (at the time of writing). We didn’t plan that - truthfully, Dave was completely unaware that they had a new record coming until he decided we were doing this album - but it’s turned out quite well for us.

30 odd years is a long time for a band to exist, which is probably why they’ve long portions of that time either not being Fear Factory, or being at each other’s throats. In ...