Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares has made clear that he isn’t a fan of his influential Los Angeles, CA-based cyber metal band’s 2005 album, “Transgression“. That opus was one of two efforts the group released without the involvement of Cazares, who was out of the band at the time following a bitter dispute. Instead, the bassist Christian Olde Wolbers stepped up to assume the guitar duties on those records.
While years of legal infighting would eventually see Cazares gain the rights of the Fear Factory trademark several years ago, both of the albums Cazares was absent from, “Archetype” and “Transgression“, remain a thorn in the side for him.
As he has repeatedly expressed, he retains no rights to those particular records, which were issued via Liquid 8 and Calvin Records respectively. Despite his lack of involvement and ownership to those outings, Cazares is regularly approached about their absence from leading digital service providers.
However, by the sounds of it, Cazares doesn’t lose sleep about it either, in particular with “Transgression“. Replying to a fan on social media over the weekend, Cazares compared that album to perhaps the second blackest mark on Metallica‘s discography, “St. Anger“. Cazares stated:
I sure one of u is going to cry that I said this but here it goes.
I was never into the album “Transgression” it reminded me of Metallica’s 2003 album St. Anger. The song “Transgression” reminded me of the song “Frantic”
Riffs ,played high on the fret with the low string https://t.co/omnGL4zDsr— Dino Cazares (@DinoCazares) July 15, 2024
