Dino Cazares (born in 1966)
is an American musician, known for being the guitarist and one of the co-founders of
industrial metal
Industrial metal is the fusion of heavy metal and industrial music, typically employing repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Prominent industrial metal acts include Ministry, Nine In ...
band
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...
. He is also the co-founder of the
metal
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bands
Divine Heresy
Divine Heresy is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California by founder of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and Devolved drummer John Sankey. Although the band's origins trace back to 2002, Divine Heresy was officially for ...
,
Asesino
Asesino (Spanish for "assassin" or "murderer") is an American deathgrind supergroup and a side project of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares. The band has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent, Possessed, Min ...
, and
Brujeria
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. Cazares popularized the use of
digital amp modelling processors, as well as the use of
seven
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7 or seven may also refer to:
* AD 7, the seventh year of the AD era
* 7 BC, the seventh year before the AD era
* The month of
July
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and
eight-string guitar
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s in metal music.
Career
Cazares met singer
Burton C. Bell
Burton Christopher Bell (born February 19, 1969) is an American musician and vocalist. He is best known as the co-founder and former frontman of the metal band Fear Factory. Until 2021 he was the only member to perform on all of the band's album ...
in 1989 and started a group under the name Ulceration, which was renamed to their current name Fear Factory in the following year with Raymond Herrera on drums. The band's first album, ''
Soul of a New Machine
''Soul of a New Machine'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Fear Factory, released on August 25, 1992 by Roadrunner Records. Although this record was Fear Factory's first studio album to be released, it was actually their ...
'', was dedicated to Cazares' mother, Natividad, and older brother, Joey. Before starting Fear Factory, Cazares was in the
grindcore
Grindcore is an extreme fusion genre of heavy metal and hardcore punk that originated in the mid-1980s, drawing inspiration from abrasive-sounding musical styles, such as thrashcore, crust punk, hardcore punk, extreme metal, and industrial. G ...
band Excruciating Terror, which he quit after one month. He co-founded the Mexican death/grind side-project
Brujeria
Various types of witchcraft and occult religious practices exist in Latin American and Afro-Caribbean cultures, known in Spanish as (pronounced ). Influenced by indigenous religion, Catholicism, and European witchcraft, the purpose may range ...
, formed in 1989 with members of Faith No More, Fear Factory, among other well-known bands.
When Fear Factory split up (temporarily) in 2002, Cazares returned to Brujeria, and released what was supposed to be the first of 13 Demoniaco Brujeria records (one for each member of Brujeria). He formed the band
Asesino
Asesino (Spanish for "assassin" or "murderer") is an American deathgrind supergroup and a side project of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares. The band has featured members of Brujeria, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Sadistic Intent, Possessed, Min ...
the same year, it featured himself with Static-X bassist Tony Campos on bass and vocals, and Emilio Marquez on drums. Fear Factory reformed later that year without Cazares. In 2005, Cazares was chosen as a team captain by Roadrunner A&R Monte Conner for the
Roadrunner United
''Roadrunner United'' was a project organized by American heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It culminated in an album released worldwide on October 11, 2005, entitled ''The All-Star Sessions''. Four ...
album for which he wrote four songs and contributed with other
Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is an American record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock bands. Founded in the Netherlands in 1980, it is now a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City.
History
The label was launched in 1980 in t ...
artists.
Cazares formed
Divine Heresy
Divine Heresy is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California by founder of Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and Devolved drummer John Sankey. Although the band's origins trace back to 2002, Divine Heresy was officially for ...
in 2005, who released their debut album ''
Bleed the Fifth
''Bleed the Fifth'' is the debut studio album by American metal band Divine Heresy, released in August 2007. It sold approximately 2,700 copies in its first week of release. '' in August 2007. The band got signed to
Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is an American record label focused on heavy metal and hard rock bands. Founded in the Netherlands in 1980, it is now a division of Warner Music Group and is based in New York City.
History
The label was launched in 1980 in t ...
and
Century Media
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A centennial or ...
, and included
Tim Yeung
Tim Yeung (born November 27, 1978) is an American extreme metal drummer. He currently performs in the band I Am Morbid, which plays Morbid Angel songs and also features Morbid Angel's former vocalist/bassist David Vincent (musician), David Vinc ...
(All That Remains, Hate Eternal, Nile, Vital Remains, Morbid Angel) on drums, Thomas Cummings on vocals and (later on)
Joe Payne (Nile) on bass. Cummings was terminated from the band in 2008 and was replaced by Travis Neal. Their second album ''
Bringer of Plagues
''Bringer of Plagues'' is the second studio album by American metal band Divine Heresy, released on July 28, 2009. It is the band's only album to feature vocalist Travis Neal and bassist Joe Payne, and the last to feature drummer Tim Yeung.
On ...
'' was released on July 28, 2009.
![Dino Cazares](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Dino_Cazares.jpg)
In 2009, Cazares rejoined Fear Factory and has released four albums with them since. Divine Heresy has been inactive due to Cazares' commitment to Fear Factory and several departures that took place.
Cazares has voiced a minor character in the
adult swim
Adult Swim (AS; stylized as dult swim
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and often abbreviated as s is an American adult-oriented night-time cable television Television channel, channel that shares channel space with the basic cable network Cartoon Network and is programme ...
TV show ''
Metalocalypse
''Metalocalypse'' is an American adult animated television series, created by Brendon Small and Tommy Blacha, which premiered on August 6, 2006, followed by a musical one-hour special, '' Metalocalypse: The Doomstar Requiem'', on October 27, 201 ...
''.
In January 2019, Cazares announced his divorce from Jennifer Pagan Cazares on Twitter.
Starting in August 2021, Cazares toured with
Soulfly
Soulfly is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1997, and later based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 199 ...
as their guitar player. He continues to play with Soulfly for their 35-date tour from February through March of 2022.
Reformation of Fear Factory
On April 7, 2009, Cazares and ex-bandmate
Burton C. Bell
Burton Christopher Bell (born February 19, 1969) is an American musician and vocalist. He is best known as the co-founder and former frontman of the metal band Fear Factory. Until 2021 he was the only member to perform on all of the band's album ...
announced the reconciliation of their friendship, and the formation of a new project with Byron Stroud (
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, ''Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing' ...
) on bass and
Gene Hoglan
Eugene Victor Hoglan II (born August 31, 1967) is an American drummer, acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including use of abstract devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms. Though his pla ...
(Death, Strapping Young Lad, Dethklok) on drums. On April 28, this project was revealed to actually be a new version of Fear Factory, minus founding member
Raymond Herrera
Raymond Herrera is an American musician and entrepreneur, best known as the former drummer and founding member of the heavy metal band Fear Factory. He is the former drummer for his previous band Brujeria and for industrial metal band Arkaea. He ...
and longtime member
Christian Olde Wolbers
Christian Olde Wolbers (born 5 August 1972) is a Belgian musician, songwriter, and producer who is the bassist and backing vocalist of the heavy metal band Powerflo. He is the former bassist, guitarist and backing vocalist of the heavy metal b ...
. Bell, when asked why Herrera and Wolbers were not included, stated that "
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1989. Throughout the band's career, they have released ten full-length albums and have evolved through a succession of sounds, all in their main style of industrial metal. ...
's like a business and I'm just reorganizing...We won't talk about
heir exclusion"
Technique and style
Cazares is often identified by his fast
alternate picking
Alternate picking is a guitar playing technique that employs alternating downward and upward strokes in a continuous fashion. If the technique is performed at high speed on a single string or course voicing the same note, it may be referred to ...
rhythm guitar technique, timing
palm mute
The palm mute is a playing technique for guitar and bass guitar, executed by placing the side of the picking hand below the little finger across the strings to be plucked, very close to the bridge, and then plucking the strings while the damp ...
d
triplets
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and
syncopated
In music, syncopation is a variety of rhythms played together to make a piece of music, making part or all of a tune or piece of music off-beat. More simply, syncopation is "a disturbance or interruption of the regular flow of rhythm": a "place ...
sixteenth notes
Figure 1. A 16th note with stem facing up, a 16th note with stem facing down, and a 16th rest.
Figure 2. Four 16th notes beamed together.
In music, a 1/16, sixteenth note (American) or semiquaver (British) is a note played for half the dura ...
with
double bass drumming
The bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch. The instrument is typically cylindrical, with the drum's diameter much greater than the drum's depth, with a struck head at both ends of the cylinder. The ...
. This has led to a distinctive "machine-gun" style identifiable in the music of Fear Factory. In previous Fear Factory albums, Cazares did not play any guitar solos in Fear Factory for stylistic reasons, but can be heard playing them in his other bands. However, the band's 2010 album, ''Mechanize'', has several lead parts and solos.
Equipment
For the longest time, Cazares was endorsed by
Ibanez
is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as ...
guitars, specifically custom-made 7-string models with
Seymour Duncan
Seymour Duncan is an American company best known for manufacturing guitar and bass pickups. They also manufacture effects pedals which are designed and assembled in America. Guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and Cathy Carter Duncan foun ...
Blackouts pickups installed. They were usually detuned a whole step (A,D,G,C,F,A,D; from
Obsolete
Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer maintained or required even though it may still be in good working order. It usually happens when something that is more efficient or less risky r ...
on) to allow for even lower registers. His main guitar in Asesino is an
Ibanez
is a Japanese guitar brand owned by Hoshino Gakki. Based in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan, Hoshino Gakki were one of the first Japanese musical instrument companies to gain a significant foothold in import guitar sales in the United States and Europe, as ...
prototype 8-string guitar (standard tuning F#,B,E,A,D,G,B,E) loaded with 2 Seymour Duncan Blackout 8 active pickups. Before using Ibanez guitars, his main instrument was a black custom shop
ESP
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* Extrasensory perception, a paranormal ability
ESP may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment Music
* ESP Guitars, a manufacturer of electric guitars
* E.S. Posthumus, an independent music group formed in 2000, ...
M 6-string guitar with a single EMG 81 in the bridge, detuned to
B tuning. This can be seen in the video for the song "Replica". His first known Ibanez 7-string is an
Ibanez Universe UV7SBK "Silver Dot", with a modified pickguard to fit a single passive pickup and a volume knob. He was also known to have an Ibanez Universe UV777BK with similar modifications, except with an EMG 7-string prototype instead of a passive pickup.
In January 2015, Ibanez announced a signature model for Dino Cazares, the DCM100. It is based on the Ibanez RGD platform, including the 26.5in scale, but features a mahogany body, maple neck with bubinga strip, offset dot inlays, Lo-Pro Edge tremolo, and a single Seymour Duncan Retribution pickup. This guitar makes Cazares one of only 4 Ibanez signature artists to have a signature 7-string guitar.
After being with the company for 22 years, he switch endorsement from Ibanez to Ormsby Guitars, a company based in
Perth
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, Australia. He announced the partnership in January 2019, as well as a line of signature models, two of these being revealed at the 2019 Winter
NAMM Show
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.
In the early days, his guitar tone derived from a modified Marshall JCM800 head with scooped mids and high treble settings to produce the thrashy, chugging tone which has been so influential to the metal genre. After it was stolen, he switched to the Line 6 POD Pro with a
Mesa/Boogie
Mesa/Boogie (also known as Mesa Engineering) is an American company in Petaluma, California, that manufactures amplifiers and other accessories for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969.
Mesa was started by Randall Smith as a sm ...
tube power amp. This setup was used to record
Digimortal. Cazares later endorsed the
Line 6 Vetta II HD, as well as a
POD X3 Pro processor into a
Mesa/Boogie
Mesa/Boogie (also known as Mesa Engineering) is an American company in Petaluma, California, that manufactures amplifiers and other accessories for guitars and basses. It has been in operation since 1969.
Mesa was started by Randall Smith as a sm ...
tube power amp and Mesa/Boogie oversized Rectifier 4x12 cabinets. When playing live, Cazares mostly uses the speaker cabinets for
monitoring
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* Baby monitoring
* Biomonitoring, of toxic chemical compounds, ...
, or does not use them at all, since his signal is also run into the venue's
PA. In 2011, Cazares replaced the POD X3 Pro for the POD HD Pro. He also replaced his Mesa/Boogie tube power amp for a Matrix GT800FX 800W solid state power amp, and his Mesa/Boogie Rectifier 4x12 for a custom cabinet built by David Laboga. Sometime in 2012 or 2013, Cazares eventually switched from Line6 to Fractal Audio, making use of their Axe-FX II. This was short lived, as he would soon switch to using a Kemper Profiling Amp, an amplifier that could "profile" other guitar amps, allowing him to get a tone similar to previous albums.
With Divine Heresy, he used an old Marshall Valvestate VS100 head, Marshall JCM800, and a
Peavey 5150
The Peavey 5150 is a vacuum tube based guitar amplifier made by Peavey Electronics from 1992 on. The amplifier was initially created as a signature model for Eddie Van Halen. After Van Halen and Peavey parted ways in 2004, the name was changed to ...
head boosted with an
Ibanez TS-9.
In 2007, Cazares switched from
EMG active pickups to
Seymour Duncan
Seymour Duncan is an American company best known for manufacturing guitar and bass pickups. They also manufacture effects pedals which are designed and assembled in America. Guitarist and luthier Seymour W. Duncan and Cathy Carter Duncan foun ...
AHB-1 Blackout active pickups, which he helped design with Duncan. In 2014, Seymour Duncan announced the Blackout Retribution pickups, which are a signature set of pickups designed with less output and more treble than a standard Blackout set.
Guitar rig and signal flow
A detailed gear diagram of Dino Cazares' 2001 Fear Factory guitar rig is well-documented.
[Cooper, Adam (2001)]
"Dino Cazares' 2001 Fear Factory Guitar Rig"
. GuitarGeek.Com.
Discography
Nailbomb
*''
Point Blank
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'' (1994)
Asesino
*''
Corridos de Muerte
''Corridos de Muerte'' (Tales of Death) is the debut album by deathgrind band Asesino, first released in 2002. It was re-released in 2005 with a bonus DVD.
The opening sample of "Asesino" comes from the Spanish movie The Day of the Beast, while ...
'' (2002)
*''
Cristo Satanico'' (2006)
Fear Factory
Studio albums
*''
Soul of a New Machine
''Soul of a New Machine'' is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Fear Factory, released on August 25, 1992 by Roadrunner Records. Although this record was Fear Factory's first studio album to be released, it was actually their ...
'' (1992)
*''
Demanufacture'' (1995)
*''
Obsolete
Obsolescence is the state of being which occurs when an object, service, or practice is no longer maintained or required even though it may still be in good working order. It usually happens when something that is more efficient or less risky r ...
'' (1998)
*''
Digimortal'' (2001)
*''
Mechanize
''Mechanize'' is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Fear Factory. It is the only album to feature Gene Hoglan on drums and the first since 2001's '' Digimortal'' to include original guitarist and founding member Dino Cazares, ...
'' (2010)
*''
The Industrialist'' (2012)
*''
Genexus
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GeneXus uses mostly declar ...
'' (2015)
*''
Aggression Continuum
''Aggression Continuum'' is the tenth studio album by American heavy metal band Fear Factory, released on June 18, 2021. It is the band's first studio album since ''Genexus'' (2015), marking the longest gap between two albums in their entire car ...
'' (2021)
EP
*''
Fear Is the Mindkiller
''Fear Is the Mindkiller'' is a remix Extended play, EP containing remixes of songs from the first album ''Soul of a New Machine'' by Fear Factory. It was released on April 14, 1993, by Roadrunner Records.
Content
Remixes 1–5 were created by ...
'' (1993)
Demo
*''
Concrete
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'' (2002)
Compilations
*''
Hatefiles'' (2003)
*''
The Best of Fear Factory
''The Best of Fear Factory'' is a best-of compilation album released on Roadrunner Records, featuring a collection of Fear Factory's music with the label (as such, ''Archetype'' and '' Transgression'' material are not included). The record was ...
'' (2006)
Brujeria
Studio albums
*''
Matando Güeros
''Matando Güeros'' (Killing '' Güeros'') is the debut album by the band Brujeria. "Güero" is a Mexican-Spanish slang term for a blonde or light skinned/haired person. The album talks mostly about controversial topics in Mexico like drug traff ...
'' (1993)
*''
Raza Odiada
''Raza Odiada'' ( en, Hated Race) is the second album by Brujeria. Brujeria's main concepts are Satanism, revolution, pro-immigration, narcotics and drug smuggling, and related themes.
Album information
''Raza Odiada'' (which translates in Engl ...
'' (1995)
*''
Brujerizmo'' (2000)
EPs
* ¡Demoniaco! (1990)
* ¡Machetazos! (1992)
* El Patrón (1994)
*''
Marijuana
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'' (2000)
Divine Heresy
*''
Bleed the Fifth
''Bleed the Fifth'' is the debut studio album by American metal band Divine Heresy, released in August 2007. It sold approximately 2,700 copies in its first week of release. '' (2007)
*''
Bringer of Plagues
''Bringer of Plagues'' is the second studio album by American metal band Divine Heresy, released on July 28, 2009. It is the band's only album to feature vocalist Travis Neal and bassist Joe Payne, and the last to feature drummer Tim Yeung.
On ...
'' (2009)
Die Klute
*''
Planet Fear'' (2019)
Roadrunner United
*''
Roadrunner United
''Roadrunner United'' was a project organized by American heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It culminated in an album released worldwide on October 11, 2005, entitled ''The All-Star Sessions''. Four ...
'' (2005)
Atari Teenage Riot
*''
60 Second Wipe Out
''60 Second Wipe Out'' is the third studio album by Atari Teenage Riot. It was originally released through Digital Hardcore Recordings in 1999. It peaked at number 17 on the UK Independent Albums Chart, as well as number 32 on the '' Billboard'' ...
'' (1999)
Strife
*''
In This Defiance'' (1997)
Junkie XL
*''
Saturday Teenage Kick'' (1997)
*''
Big Sounds of the Drags
''Big Sounds of the Drags'' is the second album by the Dutch electronic musician Junkie XL, released on Roadrunner Records in 1999.
Reception
The tracks "Synasthesia", "Dance USA" and "Future in Computer Hell (Part II)" were included in the vid ...
'' (1999)
Soulfly
*''
Soulfly
Soulfly is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1997, and later based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Soulfly is led by former Sepultura frontman Max Cavalera, who formed the band after he left the Brazilian group in 199 ...
'' (1998)
Cypress Hill
*''
Skull & Bones'' (2000)
References
External links
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