CAZARES: HERRERA And WOLBERS Planned To Cut Me Out From FEAR FACTORY From The Beginning

July 27, 2009

RockMusicStar.com recently conducted a short interview with FEAR FACTORY/DIVINE HERESY guitarist Dino Cazares. An excerpt from the chat follows below.

RockMusicStar.com: What's your side of FEAR FACTORY drama? Christian [Olde Wolbers, FEAR FACTORY/ARKEA guitarist] simply contends you and Burton [C. Bell, vocalist] started a new FEAR FACTORY without them.

Dino: That's true. We did.

RockMusicStar.com: Why is that?

Dino: Listen, when Burton and I decided to do this again, Burton confronted Raymond [Herrera, drummer] with his intentions of reforming FEAR FACTORY with me and Raymond flat out told him, "Go fuck yourself, you're dead to me." So we said fuck it, if they want to be like that we will just go ahead without them.

RockMusicStar.com: I asked Christian if the rift had anything to do with you recording the bass tracks for "Demanufacture", and he said it wasn't. He said the problem was between you and Burton, So why are they so against it?

Dino: These guys had planned to cut me out from the beginning, as far as I'm concerned. They saw their chance when Burton and I had a fight and Burton quit the band. They wrote some songs and approached Burton to keep going without me. The songs were lousy and I think that's why they got dropped from Roadrunner. I really didn't care since I was still getting paid on anything FEAR FACTORY did because of the way the contracts were written. I moved forward with DIVINE HERESY.

RockMusicStar.com: So what about Christian and Raymond's gripe?

Dino: I bought the name FEAR FACTORY from my roommate for a dollar and went and had it incorporated as a business… I brought all those guys into it. The way the contracts are written… they have rights too. We offered to work as a group and they declined. Now they are pissed off and that's too bad. If they want to start a FEAR FACTORY, go ahead let them see who buys their album.

RockMusicStar.com: That's some heavy shit. So what do you think the outcome of this whole scenario will be?

Dino: Who knows? We have our lawyers working it out right now, It will be decided by the court. We will have to wait and see.

Read the entire interview from RockMusicStar.com (scroll down).

Pictured below is FEAR FACTORY's 2009 lineup (left to right): Burton C. Bell (vocals),Gene Hoglan (drums),Byron Stroud (bass) and Dino Cazares (guitar)

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