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Fear Factory, Fear Campaign Tour 2010

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Fear Factory have announced the first dates in support of Mechanize, their recently released new album. Interviews and tickets for the show are now available for media and retailers who are wishing to come out and support the local dates as noted below.

Fear Factory have announced the first dates in support of Mechanize, their recently released new album. Interviews and tickets for the show are now available for media and retailers who are wishing to come out and support the local dates as noted below.

03/22/10
MARQUEE THEATRE
TEMPE
AZ

03/23/10
SUNSHINE THEATER
ALBUQUERQUE
NM

03/24/10
THE BLACK SHEEP
COLORADO SPR.
CO

03/26/10
HOUSE OF BLUES
DALLAS
TX

03/27/10
WHITE RABBIT
SAN ANTONIO
TX

03/28/10
THE CHANNEL @ WIRED LIVE
HOUSTON
TX

03/30/10
CULTURE ROOM
FT. LAUDERDALE
FL

03/31/10
HOUSE OF BLUES
LAKE BUENA VISTA
FL

04/01/10
THE MASQUERADE
ATLANTA
GA

04/02/10
VALARIUM
KNOXVILLE
TN

04/03/10
THE VILLAGE
LITTLE ROCK
AR

04/05/10
AGGIE THEATRE
FT. COLLINS
CO

04/06/10
MESA THEATRE & CLUB
GRAND JUNCTION
CO

04/09/10
REGENCY CENTER @ THE GRAND BALLROOM
SAN FRANCISCO
CA

04/10/10
HOUSE OF BLUES
LAS VEGAS
NV

04/11/10
HOUSE OF BLUES
SAN DIEGO
CA

05/15/10
FOX THEATER/CALIFORNIA METAL FEST
POMONA
CA

07/24/10
PARTERRE PARC JEAN DRAPEAU/HEAVY MTL FEST
MONTREAL
QC


Mechanize features the highly reported reconciliation of vocalist Burton C. Bell with original guitarist Dino Cazares. Along with bassist Byron Stroud (Strapping Young Lad) and journeyman drummer Gene Hoglan (Dethlok, Strapping Young Lad), the album also welcomes back the involvement of keyboardist/producer Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly).

The band premiered the album's first video, "Fear Campaign," while hosting MTV2/Headbanger's Ball on February 8. The Ian McFarland-directed video is currently in rotation nationwide on over 100 different broadcast and internet outlets. The deluxe edition of Mechanize sold out out its entire pressing in the first three weeks of release. With tour dates now in sight and more planned throughout summer and fall, Mechanize is an album that will dominate metal fans for all of 2010.

Inspired in part by Alvin Toffler's 1984 treatise Third Wave, Mechanize is simply and utterly crushing. From album opener "Industrial Discipline," with its fast rhythms and pinwheeling vocals, to "Fear Campaign," featuring harrowing spoken word passages backed by punishing beats, rapid-fire riffs and ghostly keyboards, Mechanize spectacularly showcases Fear Factory's street-lethal metal.