Ex-FEAR FACTORY Guitarist Has Been Contemplating Putting Out Homemade Porn

Joe Matera of Ultimate-Guitar.com recently conducted an interview with DIVINE HERESY/ex-FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Ultimate-Guitar.com: [DIVINE HERESY's debut album] "Bleed The Fifth" sounds a lot more musically involved and a much more aggressive effort than anything you've done so far in your career?

Dino Cazares: Yeah I wanted it to be different to what I had done in the past. I purposely didn't want to make it a full conceptual album with, you know, all that sci-fi kind of stuff. I wanted it to be just more kind of a ripping straight forward, in your face metal. And obviously having a drummer like Tim Yeung onboard who is a real technical drummer, opened up my playing a lot more so it was able to lead me to explore and view different types of riffs to how I had done before in the past.

Ultimate-Guitar.com: Was the impetus that lay behind that aggression the result of how things soured between you and your former band FEAR FACTORY?

Dino Cazares: A lot of people have been asking me about that same thing. I think it is aggression of a lot of things that I've had built up over the years. And I've been doing heavy music for a long time now and if anybody knows my other projects ASESINO, it is pretty much grindcore, death metal kind of stuff. So I just wanted to take this new stuff to a whole new level and just make it…let me put it this way, with a drummer like Tim Yeung you can't do pop songs! And I'm not going to write pop songs so of course it is naturally going to be heavy. A lot of stuff I will admit is driven by people who want to see me fail. And there are people out there who do want to see me fail. I know this will sound vindictive to people, but these people just want to see me fail so this is my big "fuck you" to all those people.

Ultimate-Guitar.com: So does touring for you today get as wild as it was in the FEAR FACTORY days?

Dino Cazares: Everywhere I go, it is wild man. Where ever I go something is going to happen. We have video cameras capturing all the actions so that is good. And the cameras have nightvision on them too!

Ultimate-Guitar.com: I hear you have a passion for making homemade porn movies?

Dino Cazares: Yeah, I have a lot of stuff that I've collected over the years. I've been contemplating about putting it all together and putting it out. But a lot of kids wouldn't be able to buy it because they would too young. I enjoy making appearances in a lot of my own home porn movies and like I said even if I could compile it all together, a lot of the kids wouldn't get to see it. Put it this way — I would get in to trouble if somebody under the legal age bought it. Unless that is, I put out a censored version, where everything is cut out. But then it wouldn't be worth watching!

Ultimate-Guitar.com: Looking back over your career with FEAR FACTORY what do you consider to be your favorite FEAR FACTORY album and why?

Dino Cazares: I think it is only the obvious choice, "Demanufacture". That album I believe was when everybody in the band had the fire, had the passion and really loved what they were doing. And it was a great two years touring that record because it took us to the next level and it was very exciting time. In the same way the kids were reacting and the band was growing. And also because the girls got better!

Ultimate-Guitar.com: Are you in touch with any of the guys in FEAR FACTORY?

Dino Cazares: I don't speak to any of the guys at all whatsoever. I have been asked if I plan on going back to FEAR FACTORY. And no, I don't want to. I don't see why I need to anyway as I now have some great guys with me. I have a great band now and it is only a matter of time before we start growing and getting better and getting out there on the road, selling many CDs and traveling the world. I'm very happy with what I'm doing now and where I am at.

Read the entire interview at Ultimate-Guitar.com.