Fear Factory have just released their first new song in five years – and there’s a secret Terminator connection: “We've always sung about the relationship between man and machine, and now it's caught up to reality”

Fear Factory posing for a photograph in 2026.

If The Terminator was a band, it would be Fear Factory – a gleaming mecha-human powerhouse who, with classic early albums Soul Of A New Machine, Demanufacture and Obsolete, harnessed technology to open up a door to a bold and terrifying new future.

The band’s new single Roboticist makes the link with the iconic Arnold Schwarzenegger movie series explicit. Their first new song in five years has just dropped on August 29 – the day the movies’ malevolent AI system Skynet became sentient.