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FEAR FACTORY guitarist
Dino Cazares has denied drawing influence from
PANTERA, explaining that his playing and songwriting style was "already developed" by the time he got into the Texas metal act.
Earlier today (Wednesday, July 29),
Cazares tweeted that late
PANTERA guitarist
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott told him that he used
FEAR FACTORY's 1998 album
"Obsolete" as a "reference" when he was mixing
PANTERA's 2000 LP
"Reinventing The Steel". After one fan responded, "Pretty sure you said
vulgar was the
Demanufacture reference, in a remaster notes," referring to
PANTERA's 1992 record
"Vulgar Display Of Power" and
FEAR FACTORY's 1995 effort
"Demanufacture",
Dino wrote: "I've never said
vulgar was a
Demanufacture reference because it took me awhile to get past
PANTERA being a glam band that turned into a Grove Metal band. I didnt really start to appreciate the band till
Far Beyond", referring to
PANTERA's 1994 effort
"Far Beyond Driven".
Dino elaborated in a separate tweet: "My playing was never influenced by
PANTERA cause my style was already developed by the time I got into them. I'm sure we were influenced by the same bands. When
PANTERA was doing glam I was listening to
SLAYER,
EXODUS,
DEATH ANGLE,
METALLICA,
POSSESSED,
DRI,
DEATH etc..."
FEAR FACTORY has been off the road since its completed a U.S. headlining tour in 2016 on which it performed its classic second album,
"Demanufacture", in its entirety.
In a November 2018 interview,
FEAR FACTORY singer
Burton C. Bell said that the band had recorded a new album tentatively titled
"Monolith". He also said that "legal technicalities" needed to be sorted out before the record could be released. The effort, which is expected to once again be made available via
Nuclear Blast, will mark the Californian band's first collection of new music since 2015's
"Genexus" LP.
FEAR FACTORY was the subject of breakup rumors in May 2017 when the band's former bassist-turned-guitarist
Christian Olde Wolbers posted a since-deleted eulogy for
FF on his
Instagram. He wrote "RIP Fear Factory" and appended that post with the hashtag #GrownAssMenThatCantWorkOutShit.
Cazares recently
launched a Patreon page where he is providing insight on his riff technique and riff writing, as well as engaging in gear talk and sharing his inspiration and survival stories on the road as a touring musician.
