History Trivia / FearFactory

** During his time away from Fear Factory, Burton started the projects City Of Fire and Ascension of The Watchers. City Of Fire is now inactive, but Ascension of The Watchers is still active to this day.

* ThePeteBest: Andrew Shives was the live bassist from 92-93. Although he's credited on ''Soul of a New Machine'', he didn't record bass parts for the record (those were done by Dino). He left the band due to differences and was replaced by Chirstian Olde Wolbers, who's much more remembered.

** Christian Olbe Wolbers is a co-founder of Aviata Sports, which makes gloves for goalkeepers. He actually played soccer at youth level back when he was growing up in Belgium, but was expelled from his club for having long hair and tattoos. He's met multiple famous soccer players through his role at Aviata Sports, including Lionel Messi.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - A music video for "Edgecrusher" was planned with visual effects provided by ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}'' creators Psygnosis (now known as SCE). Some footage was shot but it was never finished due to the band's touring schedule.
** A planned video for "Final Exit" also never materialized.

** Christian Olbe Wolbers is a co-founder of Aviata Sports, which makes gloves for goalkeepers. He actually played soccer at youth level back when he was growing up in Belgium, but was expelled from his club for having long hair and tattoos.

* HeAlsoDid: Burton is in the music video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by {{Music/Nirvana}}. He lived in Seattle at the time, and managed to get a role in the video as an extra.

*** In the end, all the efforts paid off: ''Demanufacture'' was released in June 1995 to critical acclaim and unexpected commercial success, and is nowadays seen as a landmark record in heavy metal history. "Zero Signal" was even included on the soundtrack for Film/MortalKombat. On a more positive note about Richardson's original mix, two songs from the album as mixed by him are available on B-sides album ''Hatefiles''.

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** NightmareFuel

** The original album title for ''Obsolete'' was going to be ''Securitron'' earlier on.

* FanNickname: Dino Cazares, who's a bit heavy, is widely known on Fear Factory forums as "Self Diet Resistor."

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: A planned tenth studio album, ''Monolith'', has been shelved pending the results of a lawsuit brought on by Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers over the rights to the "Fear Factory" name.

** The much delayed follow up to ''Genexus'' is going through this due to ongoing legal disputes about who owns the band name, with the latest plot twist being that Burton actually quit the band because he found out that Dino had somehow claimed the sole rights to the name.

** Music/SarahMcLachlan was asked to sing on "Timelessness", but turned it down as she felt the album was too heavy for her.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to Dino, "Concreto" was meant to be part of ''Demanufactures'' main tracklisting, but the label thought their cover of "Dog Day Sunrise" would be a hit and made them replace it.

** Also mentioned from the Decibel Hall of Fame interview, Christian Olde Wolbers didn't perform bass on ''Demanufacture'' as Dino Cazares and Rhys Fulber said that the former played the bass parts and didn't start playing on studio albums until ''Obsolete''.

** Reynor Diego was a keyboardist who provided samples for the first two albums. He's arguably been long overshadowed since by Rhys Fulber, however.

** A planned video for "Final Exit" also never materialized.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen - A music video for "Edgecrusher" was planned with visual effects provided by ''VideoGame/{{Wipeout}}'' creators Psygnosis (now known as SCE). Some footage was shot but it was never finished due to the band's touring schedule.