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Describing themselves as extreme alternative, Fear Factory have been crushing the barriers between alternative, dance, industrial and metal since their earliest beginnings. Venting their frustrations through a gridlock of crunching riffs and barbarous electronics, Fear Factory have successfully experimented with formats and generic styles, even producing an EP made up entirely of remixed tracks from a previous full-length disc. The band's almost scientific view of society adds the final brutal edge of reality to the bulk of their material, a factor that has seen Fear Factory become an innovator not only of styles but entire musical movements. Constant touring, which has seen them hit Australian shores for the fifth time last December, has solidified a passionately faithful and ever expanding fan base. Always cutting edge, there isn't a restriction Fear Factory can't smash, overcome and make their own. During their current world tour Joe Matera spoke with guitarist Dino Cazares. |
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Australia was the first
country to give Fear Factory a Gold record. Have you any recollection from you first visit to Australia? I just remember having a great time and the fact the fans were really cool. And, being the first time ever going to Perth …. Adelaide ….. Brisbane and Sydney, and just the fans being so supportive and really getting into Fear Factory. I had a really good time. Have you been doing any writing for the next album while on tour? Oh yeah, we definitely have. I mean now that we’ve all got laptop computers, we’re able to document our ideas much better than we have in the past. In between every record there’s always been like a three year gap and we want that gap to be a little shorter. We want to put out records at least once a year now. So is the next album going to progress further from ‘Digimortal’? Definitely progress. In some ways its going to be more aggressive and in some ways its going to be more melodic but its definitely going to have to be introducing new fresh ideas. The band just released its first ever DVD in January... Its got lots of behind the scenes footage. Its lots of T and A, tits and ass! And its got lots of goofing around and also the main stuff, it shows the band from when it first started. Playing small backyard parties, playing small little warehouse gigs, small little club gigs to doing festivals. Then it goes over ‘Demanufacture’ and talks about doing the record, in the studio stuff. Shows us playing live on MTC and the tour we did in Australia, the Big Day Out. Then it goes over to ‘Obsolete" and shows stuff from ‘Obsolete’. It also has all our videos from like ‘Replica’, ‘Cars’, ‘Resurrection’, ‘Linchpin’ then it goes into ‘Digimortal’ where it shows how we made the record. There's a lot of stuff. We basically documented the whole career of the band and there’s a lot of stuff we actually couldn’t fit on the DVD. There’s definitely going to have to be a part two ‘cause there’s so much extra stuff that we’ve got. What's your current gear that your using on the tour? I use a Line 6, its called the POD Pro, a rackmounted digital head. I’m using Ibanez 7-string guitars with custom made 707 EMG pick-ups, which actually you can buy now, and Mesa Boogie power amps and Mesa Boogie cabinets. How’s your own label going? My own label is going really good. We’re starting to finish off some projects that we’re going to be releasing in 2002. One of them is called ‘Asesino’, which means ‘assassin’ in Spanish. Its me and Raymond from Fear Factory and Tony Campos from Static-X. The project’s really good and its coming out in 2002 sometime. >>>>>>> And your other side project Brujeria? Brujeria will be doing a record that's coming out this year too. It’s going to be THE record that's going to blow up! You definitely like to keep yourself busy. We try and stay busy. I mean this is my career, this is what I do and its my job. This is what I like doing, you know what I mean. Who wouldn’t want to have a job of what he likes to do and make a little money? With Kool Arrow Records, our record label, we want to put out our own stuff because over the years you realise how much these record labels are ripping you off! So we decided to do this business. We started to give other bands a chance and at the same time be fair and make a little money ourselves. Have you come across any up and coming bands that you think that are similar to Fear Factory? There’s this band from Minnesota called Sublevel. They’re really, really good. Really heavy, really aggressive but they’ve got a little melodic side to them. They’re getting signed right now as we speak, so you’ll probably hear from them real soon. Do you find it ironic that the stuff you’ve always talked about on your records seem to have come to pass in society. A lot of stuff we’ve talked about have come to reality. In some cases its kind of weird and in some cases its kind of like, ‘well, we told you so!’. We definitely going to be sticking to those kind of concepts on the next album. We’re definitely going to take what happened on September 11 into consideration and talk about the world issues that are going on today. |
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joe matera
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