Dino Cazares
| Dino Cazares | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Asesino |
| Born |
September 2, 1966 El Centro, California |
| Genres | Heavy metal, industrial metal, death metal, metalcore, groove metal, alternative metal, deathgrind, deathcore, nu metal, thrash metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, bass, drum programming, backing vocals |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Labels | RoadRunner |
| Associated acts | Fear Factory, Asesino, Brujería, Divine Heresy, Nailbomb, Roadrunner United |
Dino Cazares, (born in El Centro, California,) is an American musician, known for being a co-founder and guitarist for industrial metal group Fear Factory. He is also the co-founder of the metal bands Divine Heresy and Asesino. He also popularized the use of digital amp modeling processors for 7 and 8 string guitarist in metal music. Cazares was a co-founding member of super-group Brujeria.
Cazares was born in El Centro, California. Cazares met singer Burton C. Bell 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, was dedicated to Cazares' mother, Natividad, and older brother, Joey. Before starting Fear Factory, Cazares was in the grindcore band Excruciating Terror, (quit after one month). Co-founded The Mexican death/grind side-project Brujeria formed in 1989 with members of Faith No More, Fear Factory, and others.
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 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 album for which he wrote 4 songs and contributed with other Roadrunner Records artists.
Cazares formed Divine Heresy in 2005, who released their debut album Bleed The Fifth in August 2007. The band got signed to Roadrunner Records and Century Media, and included Tim Yeung (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 was released on July 28, 2009.
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