MORE FLAMES TO THE FEAR FACTORY FIRE
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 at 10:30am by Vince Neilstein
Anthrax may have stolen this week’s metal gossip thunder, but we’re always happy to re-hash old feuds for entertainment’s sake here at MetalSucks. The latest news had Dino Cazares taking a shot at drummer Raymond Herrera’s playing abilities, while Burton Bell has for the most part taken the high road and remained mum. Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers both fired back this week, and here’s Wolbers’ latest:
KNAC.COM: You and Ray still have the Fear Factory name, right?
WOLBERS: We are both equal shareholders of the Fear Factory name. I’m just trying to see what’s going on with that.
KNAC.COM: The reformation of the original Fear Factory could still happen?
WOLBERS: Yeah, you’re hoping as much as I am (laughs).
KNAC.COM: It’s well-reported that Burton [C Bell] and Dino [Cazares] have mended fences, so to speak.
WOLBERS: It’s good that they’re friends again. I can’t say anything bad about that. They were originally the two that had the issue and that’s why Fear Factory had to continue with the lineup that we know today. That they’re good friends again and that they want to get Fear Factory going again, it’s up to them, but obviously there’s a lot of other intentions going on from their camp, so that’s why we ended up in a huge lawsuit and a legal battle. Until all that gets resolved, then nobody’s going on tour with anything.
Translation: “My new band just sold 980 records in its first week, and I need the Fear Factory reunion now more than ever. Lawyers, get that shit done already.”
-VN
There’s one thing that’s still very unclear in all of this debacle:
How on earth does a linchpin hold within the means to an end?
Dino is a fat, talentless, piece of shit. I had the misfortune of seeing Divine Heresy live and it was one of the worst concert experiences I’ve ever had. The rest of the Fear Factory guys should stay away from him.
Talentless, dude? Really? Impulsive response, maybe? He’s a fat fucking asshole, but he’s not talentless. What a stupid fucking thing to say.
new band = Arkaea?
Yeah, and their record stinks.
It would be listenable with a different singer. One who didn’t sound like a cat being eviscerated.
Hell, even Burton would make those tracks sound good.
Musically Arkaea is fine, but yeah those vocals fucking suck. Most of the album was originally written for Fear Factory anyway, I’d love to hear what Burton would have added to it. Oh well…
yah thats what i hate about the singer from threat singnal…his clean vocals blow…if that had burton on the arkaea record then It’d be for sure the new fear factory line up….
Just listened to it, the vocalist fucking SUCKS…that pisses me off, talented musicians being drowned out by some douche bag with a monotone voice
Arkaea is total crap.
I gotta say though that the new divine heresy stuff sounds a lot better than anything off the arkaea album.
Shame about Jon Howard, I thought he sounded amazing on threat signals under reprisal but I guess it was just studio trickery? Here’s hoping the new TS album will make up for it.
Say what you will about Arkaea (which I personally have no intention of listening to), but Christian and Raymond are both handling this much more maturely than Dino and Burton.
I think Bell has the right idea with what he is doing and to be playing with Hoglan is an excellent move.
Arkaea would be better if they used a different vocalist and I don’t have much to go on in terms of Divine Heresy since I’ve only heard their first album, I will put it to you this way, it didn’t take me very long to turn around and trade it in.
As much as I hated the Arkaea album, I’m totally 100% behind Ray and Chris on this.
I’m not. I’d much rather hear Fear Factory meets SYL than have the 2 of them back in the band. I could give less than a rat’s ass about all this fairy ass, back and forth, bitchfest bullshit. All that matters to me is the resulting music and on that level, there’s really no contest.
I’d rather just have SYL back together and screw all this FF/Arkaea/Divine Heresy crap.
True that…I think Id suck Devin’s cock (which he kept the skullet down there) to have just one more SYL album…
The Arkaea album is fine. From an instrumental point of view, it souds like Fear Factory, with a meatier Archetype sort of production job.
And being a big fan of Threat Signal, I like John Howard but admittedly he doesn’t really suit the sort of material on the Arkaea album (particularly the amount of cleans required). People need to check out Under Reprisal and they will see how much better he is suited to his own band.
wow. nailed on the fucking head, MS.
my interpretation would have been the same.