Last week former Chimaira bassist Matt DeVries announced that he's leaving Six Feet Under after a short stint with the band.
Now Fear Factory has announced their new bassist, and turns out it's none other than Matt DeVries.

Read the official press release after the break:

[Ed note: another announcement concerning full details about the band's new album should be revealed in the coming week.]

"FEAR FACTORY today confirm Matt DeVries as the band’s new bass player. DeVries, previously of Chimaira and most recently Six Feet Under, joins the band replacing Byron Stroud. The announcement comes as the band continues work on their upcoming new album, planned for release early Summer. The album is currently being mixed in Canada by Greg Reely while artwork for the album’s packaging is nearly complete.

DeVries comments: “I have been asked by Dino and Burton to join one of my favorite bands. I have been a fan of
FEAR FACTORY since 1992 and I could not be more excited to be part of this incredible band. We have shared the stage many times together and now I’m beyond stoked to be on the same stage playing together. Thank you to all my fans worldwide for sticking by me and I will be seeing you all on the road very soon.”

Guitarist Dino Cazares and vocalist Burton C. Bell note: “We are very excited to have Matt playing bass for FEAR FACTORY. We feel he is a great addition to our touring lineup. He has been a friend for a very long time and he’s a great musician who will be a perfect instrument in the FF machine.”

FEAR FACTORY’s new album will follow 2010’s highly regarded Mechanize. Said Blabbermouth of the record, “this is the album fans have been waiting for…a fiery and evolved rebirth of the band that changed metal in the ‘90s.” Revolver Magazine called Mechanize, “one of the best albums of the band’s career. Its combination of new-wave melody, rapid-fire aggression, and electronic ambiance sounds as fresh today as FEAR FACTORY did nearly 20 years ago. Call it the soul of their new machine,” while Decibel Magazine added, “FEAR FACTORY are back and beyond intact.”

Specific details with regards to FEAR FACTORY’s new album are expected to be released in the coming week.

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In a brand new video interview, Metal Injection caught up with current Fear Factory/Dethklok drummer, Gene Hoglan.

Gene discussed how he was asked to join Fear Factory, what he brought to the table when recording new music, how he and Dino worked together and more. Additionally, Gene spends some time talking about his brand new instructional DVD, The Atomic Clock and what his hopes for that going in were, as well as what fans can expect from the finished product.

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Northamptonshire, England: FEAR FACTORY in the early morning hours narrowly escaped fire that quickly engulfed their tour bus while in route to London. The fire reportedly stemmed from a back wheel tire before spreading throughout the double-decker coach. BBC News confirms the fire closed down two lanes of the southbound M1 as Northamptonshire fire officials battled the blaze.

FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares released the following comment moments ago: "We had just finished playing a sold out show in Sheffield and we were on our way to London. Everyone was asleep except for two of our crew. At about 3:30am the bus driver noticed smoke coming from the back right wheel. He stopped, jumped out and noticed a flame underneath the wheel well. He tried to extinguish it but the flames were too much. Everyone on the bus was woken up by one of our crew yelling 'Get everyone up and out of the bus.' Everyone grabbed their bags and ran off the bus. We stood on the side of the freeway going 'thank god we all made it out' until someone noticed our merchandise guy was still asleep on the bus. A good friend of ours ran back on the smoked-filled bus and got him out just minutes before the bus was completely in flames."

FEAR FACTORY are currently on tour in the UK continuing performances in support of their latest album, Mechanize. The band completed their most recent American tour on July 27th to a captivated audience in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The following evening the band departed from New York's John F. Kennedy Airport for an additional three weeks of dates in the UK and other various European festivals.

Cazares adds, "our eyes are burning and we were all coughing from the smoke. Some of us lost wallets, money, computers but that's not important compared to our lives. It only took about 20 to 30 minutes for the bus to be completely covered in flames. The fire trucks and the police finally arrived but it was too late to save anything on the bus. A coach bus picked us up and brought us safely to a nearby hotel. We found out only a short while ago that the trailer was saved where all our gear was. But the bus is just a metal frame on the side of the road."


[Ed Note: This press release was suppose to be posted shortly after the news broke on August 5th, but due to site maintenance it was delayed along with other a few other posts. Sorry for any inconvenience]

Industrial metal veterans FEAR FACTORY, premiered a new video for the song "Powershifter" from their latest album "Mechanize," out now via Candlelight Records.

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"Burton C. Bell talks Mechanize, Fear Campaign Tour 2010, writing and the return of Dino Cazares."

Evil G. of BareBonesMusic.com recently sat down with Burton C. Bell of the legendary FEAR FACTORY, currently on their headlining tour, Fear Campaign Tour 2010 along with Prong, Silent Civilian and Thy Will Be Done, in the U.S. supporting Mechanize their latest album which was released on February 9, 2010. Evil G. discusses with Burton the bands rejuvenation and excitement with the return of Dino Cazares, and their first L.A. performance, in quite sometime, at the 2nd annual Revolver Magazine's Golden Gods Awards.

Burton also talks about the social consciousness of FEAR FACTORY material and how much thought is placed in their music and even videos which are filled with imagery and social statements. He comments on how well Dino and he connect when writing and have a natural chemistry that brings the life to the band and the return of a sound that fans have come to expect from FEAR FACTORY, pre-Archetype and Transgression. Burton reveals the bands live show song choices and albums and songs they tend to avoid.

Finally he talks about the hard times in the music business these days, the importance of the live shows and the struggle bands go through especially with the pervasiveness of illegal downloading or in Burton's own words, "stealing." All this plus quality exclusive live band performance footage.

Johnny Orlando Jr, the self proclaimed "leading metal journalist" let his son Johnny Orlando Jr, Jr go out and about during California Metal Fest where he asks Carnifex, Arsis, Misery Index, Fear Factory, Revocation and Gene Hoglan about one of the most infamous childhood mysteries, where do babies come from? the answers are hilarious...

[Via: MetalSucks]