{"id":1398,"date":"2012-02-14T19:41:54","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/fear-factory-announce-new-bassist\/"},"modified":"2012-02-14T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:41:54","slug":"fear-factory-announce-new-bassist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/02\/14\/fear-factory-announce-new-bassist\/","title":{"rendered":"FEAR FACTORY announce new bassist!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afm-records.de\/upload\/images\/newsletter\/FF_M-Logo.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"156\" height=\"92\" \/><br \/>Los Angeles, California:\u00a0 Fear Factory today confirms Matt DeVries as the band\u2019s new bass player.\u00a0 DeVries, previously of Chimaira and most recently Six Feet Under, joins the band replacing Byron Stroud.\u00a0 The announcement comes as the band continues work on their upcoming new album, planned for release early summer.\u00a0 The album is currently being mixed in Canada by Greg Reely while artwork for the album\u2019s packaging is nearly complete.  <!--more-->  <br \/>DeVries comments, \u201cI have been asked by Dino and Burton to join one of my favorite bands.\u00a0 I have been a fan of Fear Factory since 1992 and I could not be more excited to be part of this incredible band.\u00a0 We have shared the stage many times together and now I\u2019m beyond stoked to be on the same stage playing together.\u00a0 Thank you to all my fans worldwide for sticking by me and I will be seeing you all on the road very soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guitarist Dino Cazares and Vocalist Burton C. Bell note, \u201cwe are very excited to have Matt playing bass for Fear Factory.\u00a0 We feel he is a great addition to our touring line-up.\u00a0 He has been a friend for a very long time and he is a great musician who will be a perfect instrument in the FF machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fear Factory\u2019s new album will follow 2010\u2019s highly regarded Mechanize.\u00a0 Blabbermouth said, \u201cthis is the album fans have been waiting for\u2026a fiery and evolved rebirth of the band that changed metal in the \u201990s.\u201d\u00a0 Revolver Magazine called Mechanize, \u201cone of the best albums of the band\u2019s career.\u00a0 Its combination of new-wave melody, rapid-fire aggression, and electronic ambiance sounds as fresh today as Fear Factory did nearly 20 years ago.\u00a0 Call it the soul of their new machine.\u201d\u00a0 Decibel Magazine adds, \u201cFear Factory are back and beyond intact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Specific details with regards to Fear Factory\u2019s new album are expected to be released in the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AFM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, California:\u00a0 Fear Factory today confirms Matt DeVries as the band\u2019s new bass player.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}