Vocalist Burton C. Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares are by no means getting again collectively. Ever since Bell break up from Concern Manufacturing facility in 2020, the 2 have not had a lot good to say about one another within the press. That is still true in 2025. In a latest interview with Rock Exhausting With Phil And Tish, Bell mentioned he felt that Concern Manufacturing facility “locked ourselves in a field” when it got here to their sound and never branching out a lot.
“I really feel, as a band, we locked ourselves in a field,” mentioned Bell. “And the label was anticipating a sure sound, sure members had been anticipating a sure sound and, to be sincere, a whole lot of followers had been anticipating a sure sound. Releasing anything would have been — what is the phrase? — would have simply been heresy, like, ‘What are doing? That does not sound like Concern Manufacturing facility.’ ‘Nicely…”
Bell additionally cited Concern Manufacturing facility‘s 2005 album Transgression as one time he felt the band did change issues up, which is humorous contemplating it is one of many Concern Manufacturing facility information with Christian Olde Wolbers on guitar and never Cazares.
“We did a report known as Transgression,” mentioned Bell. “And the title in itself was a transgression of the particular sound of what Concern Manufacturing facility was. As an alternative of being an industrial metallic band, on that report we had been like a tough rock band virtually. And followers handled it as such. So we did it to ourselves. However now as a solo artist, I do not really feel that [kind of pressure] in any respect. I really feel the sky’s extensive open.”
In fact this all got here again to Cazares, who refused Bell‘s claims on social media, saying: “Concern Manufacturing facility did not ‘lock themselves in a field.’ , we destroyed the field and developed whereas sustaining a core sound. It is a alternative pushed by ardour not strain. I dwell, die, and regenerate Concern Manufacturing facility, loyal to the top.”
Responding to a fan, Cazares later added: “It is simply 2 totally different folks’s perspective on once they had been within the band. One felt like he was boxed in,like he was doing it as a result of he needed to not as a result of he needed to, the opposite(me) did it out of affection and fervour it genuinely issues to me it is a alternative, pushed by ardour not by strain.”
And I assume the confrontation between the 2 would not actually imply a lot ultimately anyway, contemplating Bell is launching his personal solo profession and Fear Factory just entered the studio.
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