Burton C. Bell - Vocals (1991-present)
Dino Cazares - Guitar/Bass (1991-present)
Reynor Diego - Keyboard (1993-present)
Rhys Fulber - Keyboard (199?-present)
Raymond Herrera - Drums (1993-present)
Andrew Shives - Bass (1992-1994)
Christian Olde Wolbers - Bass (1994-present)
Since their formation in 1991, Fear Factory has quickly established itself to be one of the most original band in the heavy metal genre. In 1992, vocalist Burton C. Bell, guitarist/bassist Dino Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera recorded their debut LP on Roadrunner Records entitled Soul Of A New Machine. The album was like no other in the metal community, in parts it has a certain tranquility, while in others it was an all out eardrum destroyer. It is very evident that the band's early influences were death and industrial metal, all seventeen tracks contain the growly death metal vocals and riffs and the industrial sampling.
Before embarking on a tour to promote Soul Of A New Machine, Fear Factory hired bassist Andrew Shives to relieve Dino Cazares of having to perform both bass and guitar duties on tour. In 1993, after having done some brief touring, Fear Factory reentered studios and, with the help of members of Front Line Assembly, remixed four songs off of their debut album into a more techno oriented sound, the end result became a six track EP entitled Fear Is The Mindkiller. Soon afterwards, Fear Factory hired the full-time touring services of keyboardists Reynor Diego and Rhys Fulber (of Front Line Assembly) to add to their live sound.
In 1994, after some more touring, Andrew Shives was fired and replaced with Belgian axe-man Christian Olde Wolbers. In October of that year, the band entered Bearsville Studios in Bearsville, New York to record their follow-up LP Demanufacture. The album sounded a bit different from their debut, vocally Burton had incorporated more variation and there was a lot more sampling done. Since it's release in 1995, Demanufacture has quickly become one of the all-time best selling records for Roadrunner. After the band gets everything in order, they plan to record a follow-up remix EP to the album to Demanufacture along the lines of Fear Is The Mindkiller to be released in 1997.
The samples 'What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't mommy and daddy pay you enough attention when you were a child' from the song Crisis and 'This is my rifle. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My rifle is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. Without me my rifle is useless, without my rifle I am useless' on Suffer Age from Soul Of A New Machine are from the move Full Metal Jackets
The sample 'Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?' on the song Crisis is from the movie Apocalypse Now
The sample 'I want more from life... fucker! on Fleshhold is from the movie Bladerunner
The sample at the beginning of the song Demanufacture is from the 3DO video game Demolition Man
The lyrics to the song Scapegoat on Soul Of A New Machine are based on events which happened to Dino Cazares, he was blamed for a crime he did not commit and spent a night in jail because of it
Burton C. Bell started out in an LA band called Hate Face
Fear Factory did a cover of the Head Of David song Dog Day Sunrise on Demanufacture (Dog Day Sunrise is from the Head Of David album Dustbowl)
H-K (Hunter-Killer) is about the flaws in gun control
Replica is a song from the viewpoint of a loveless being born of violence and rape
The lyrics to Self Biased Resistor are based loosely around the movie Closet Land
The song Pisschrist is based upon the controversial government funded picture by Andre Soronto (which was a picture of a cruifix in a jar of urine), the song is questioning the power of religion, as did the picture
Dino was in a band called 'Douche Lords' before he joined Fear Factory