Fear Factory is an American metal band that formed in 1989 and has released eight full-length albums. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, frequenting industrial metal with flavors of death metal, groove metal, and thrash metal.[1][2][3] Fear Factory proved to be enormously influential on the metal scene in the mid- to late-1990s.[4] Fear Factory disbanded in March 2002[5] following some internal disputes, but reformed later that year without founding member Dino Cazares, adding bassist Byron Stroud, and casting then-bassist Christian Olde Wolbers as guitarist.