You know how some people leave their Christmas shopping until the last minute and run around in a mad panic trying to get everything sorted? That’s us that is, but instead of Xmas shopping, we’re doing it with a load of photos Gary Wolstenholme sent us yesterday of Devin Townsend and Fear Factory at the HMV Ritz in Manchester earlier this month.
Fear Factory

Fear Factory is an American industrial/groove metal band from Los Angeles that formed in 1989. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, combining death metal, groove metal, with industrial metal. Fear Factory proved to be enormously influential on the metal scene in the mid- to late-1990s. The band disbanded in March 2002 following some internal disputes, but reformed later in 2002 without founding member Dino Cazares Read more on Last.fm
Fear Factory on Thrash Hits
Download Festival 2012: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip – it’s all here
June 28th, 2012
It’s that time of year again – it’s the return of the Thrash Hits Download Festival splash page for 2012! All of our Download coverage from across the entire weekend will be linked to on this here post, so make sure you bookmark it as it’s all you’re going to need. That means individual band coverage in the form of photos and setlists, as well as reviews of each day’s highlights, every scandalous rumour and dirty bit of gossip that we overhear, and every outrageous photo of muddy debauchery that our photographers can get their lenses on.
Download Festival 2012: Fear Factory @ Main Stage – Friday, 08 June 2012
June 8th, 2012
Due to the massive sea of mud at Donington Park, Fear Factory ended up being the first band on the Main Stage at Download Festival 2012. Rise To Remain were supposed to do it, but the general weather-based tomfoolery meant that both they and Cancer Bats got bumped off the schedule. Which kind of sucks. Whatever, go look at Gary Wolstenholme’s sexy photos of Dino Cazares, Burton C. Bell, and the two guys they hired to make up their rhythm section.
Download Festival adds 14 more bands to their 2012 line-up
February 1st, 2012
Download Festival have announced a veritable swathe of additional acts that will be gracing their festival at Donington Park this Summer. There’s even a fair few heavyweights in this announcement, including Megadeth, Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society, Slash, and Thrash Hits’ personal favourite purveyors of intellectual metal, Five Finger Death Punch.
Sonisphere Festival 2010: Interviews, Photos, Setlists, Gossip – it’s all here
August 6th, 2010
It’s time for another Thrash Hits festival splash page – and this time it’s for Sonisphere! All of our Sonisphere Festival 2010 coverage from the weekend will be linked to on this here post, so make sure you bookmark it as it’s all you’re going to need need. That means individual band coverage (interviews, photos, setlists and maybe even some reviews), all the dodgy rumours and salacious gossip we overhear, and every lewd photo of fit girls frolicking about at Knebworth we can rustle up will be here.
Sonisphere Festival 2010: Fear Factory @ Saturn Stage – Saturday, 31 July 2010
August 1st, 2010
If Robocop was around these days, we’re pretty sure his favourite band would be Fear Factory. Their signature style of cyber-metal is exactly what a law-enforcing man-machine would be caught headbanging to. Plus he’d really relate to the lyrics. Fear Factory yet again prove themselves to be one of the tightest bands around.
YouTube LOL: Death Metal Bands Explain Where Babies Come From
May 20th, 2010
Yeah, we’re not averse to asking bands really stupid questions but getting some blonde, pre-teen kid to ask metal bands this particular stupid question is a (massive) step further.
This week on Thrash Hits…
February 5th, 2010
It’s been a bit of a belter this week, so for anyone who’d been a bit slack and missed anything, here’s what we’ve been getting up to:
- We signed on again as a media partner for the Hellfire Club, just in time to find out Viatrophy won’t be playing the event anymore. On account of being split up.
- With Rammstein currently burning down arenas up and down the length of the UK, Raz took on all the members at once for an interview. Please feel free to make up your own jokes about Raz taking on German members and email them to him here.
- We caught up with Matt Drake from Evile, to find out how the Yorkshire thrashers are coping in the new year – and with a new bassist – in the wake of the tragic death of Mike Alexander.
- Amit Sharma’s assessment of the new Diesel DH4 amp in his new, regular-ish column about equipment pleased an awful lot of you. There’ll be another installment soon.
- Following the announcement that the mighty Heaven & Hell would be headlining the final night of Bloodstock Open Air 2010, we gave you three damn solid reasons why this was awesome piece of news. As if you needed telling.
- Reviews-wise, we set our new writer, Tom Dare, loose on the new albums from Dark Fortress, Sworn Against and Aeternam. Our Deputy Editor had a bit of a man-gasm over Bastions’ Kingdom of Dogs EP, and Jon Kerr told you why you need the new Fear Factory album in your life.
- Speaking of which, we also crudely mocked Fear Factory’s comeback video for all the ludicrous shit Burton C Bell gets up to in it. Let’s face it, he gets to hide behind Dino Cazares most of the time – literally and figuratively – so we figured he we’d give him the attention for a change.
Next week: expect interviews with Baroness, as well as Adrian and Anders from the sadly no-longer-with-us At The Gates. Oh, and there’ll be some sweeeeet video action with the smokin’ hot Doris ‘Thunder Tears’ Yeh of Chthonic as well….