The Download Festival's Beez caught up with FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell for The Lowdown Reloaded. Check out the brief clip below:

Bell is featured in a new interview with Brian Giffin at Australia's Loud Magazine. An excerpt from the story is available below:

Resistance and fighting the establishment are themes that recur throughout Fear Factory's catalogue - it was central to Obsolete, for example - but with song titles like 'Virus of Faith', 'God Eater' and the instrumental track 'Religion is Flawed Because Man is Flawed', it's apparent that disdain for religion has a strong presence on this recording.

"It's all from the viewpoint of the machine, and it's seeing that man and its faith is flawed," he says. "Because man is not a god, man is not a king. Man is only man. This is the mantra that The Industrialist is teaching the other automatons. ‘They're only men. And they are flawed.’"

Bell does concede that most of the band’s lyrics reflect his personal views, no matter how he much he dresses them up in elaborate saga.

"All the albums are my thoughts, and they are the story of Fear Factory in a lot of ways. Even though I put them into a third person perspective and try not to make them very personal, it's still my thoughts so there's a lot of my own personality throughout Fear Factory," he says. "My opinion of religion is never gonna stop. It's always gonna find its way into my lyrics some way or another. So the lyrics definitely are spawned from my own thoughts and my own beliefs." He laughs. "I am The Industrialist!"

His writing may be rooted in fiction, but much of it has since been paralleled in reality. Fans can find similarities to Bell’s dark visions of the future in films like Robocop, Hardware and most obviously the Terminator series - which Demanufacture sampled - and some of the technologies that Fear Factory was hinting at on albums like Obsolete have since evolved.

"When you write science fiction, you have to have vision, you have to be able to see the reality and to see the innovations moving forward... see what the world is coming to," Bell says. "That's true for most science fiction writers. Most fiction writers in general. It's pretty awesome that some of things we've discussed in our Fear Factory stories are coming true, or have come to pass."

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Fear Factory have released their new album, The Industrialist. It is currently streaming in its entirety at here.

The complete tracklisting is as follows:

'The Industrialist'

'Recharger'

'New Messiah'

'God Eater'

'Depraved Mind Murder'

'Virus Of Faith'

'Difference Engine'

'Dissemble'

'Religion Is Flawed Because Man Is Flawed'

'Human Augmentation'

'Blush Response (Difference Engine)' **

'Landfill' **

** (available on deluxe digi-book only)