Fear Factory

Alesana -- 'The Emptiness' (Fearless): Androgynous, concept-driven metalcore that's ripe for every single date of Warped Tour. That's 'The Emptiness' in a nutshell. High-pitched, sometimes femme vocals live alongside some guttural growls, layered harmonies and metal riffage...

About.com's Chad Bower has been a respectable voice in the metal music industry for two decades, so his top picks for the upcoming releases in 2010 are worth keeping an eye on. Many of his choices feature lineup changes in established bands throughout various metal subgenres...

When Arkaea vocalist Jon Howard was sidelined by a case of pneumonia, it forced the band to drop off a few remaining tour dates. This happens often; a band is on the road, touring, supporting its music, and someone gets sick and dates get cancelled...

Some days, writing an intro to this column is easy. Other days, I struggle. Today, there's more than a few topics swimming around in my head I want to talk about. But which one? Do I tell you about today's podcast taping, with Guy Kozowyk from the Red Chord...

"The secret is to not sit back under the thousand labels that media can give you," says guitarist Simone Mularoni of empYrios' music philosophy. "Everyone tends to associate a band to a single musical genre, but we want to break this habit...

Arkaea, the project featuring Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera, late of Fear Factory, are rolling right along since the release of 'Years in the Darkness.' As was Burton C. Bell when we asked him, drummer Herrera was tight-lipped about the Fear Factory developments, since that's a whole legal drama in and of itself...

Few metal singers have a voice as distinct as Burton C. Bell of Fear Factory, G/Z/R, the non-metal Ascension of the Watchers, and now, City of Fire fame. In City of Fire, Bell has joined forces with current Fear Factory bassist Byron Stroud...

As Canada's Threat Signal ready 'Vigilance,' their new album, for release, vocalist Jon Howard wants the headbangers who haven't heard of his band yet to know Threat Signal aren't a one trick pony. "Threat Signal combine a lot of elements found in metal and rock, and we are not a one trick pony," Howard told Noisecreep...

Sybreed, who are in the studio working on a new opus, are what's deemed "death wave." Drop, guitarist for the Swiss industrial metal band, told Noisecreep that the genre "is simply a mix between death metal and new wave" that was actually christened as a joke and was a result of the consumption of libations...

So, we were at a show last week, and noticed something strange. See, we realize it's uncouth to wear a band shirt to that same band's concert. It's like wearing an 'I Love New York' shirt in Times Square. We see dudes all the time when we go to shows wearing shirts with the logos of bands on the bill, and it almost always inspires a smart-ass remark...