While he was on holiday in L.A. and hanging out with Biohazard, Christian was asked by FF to try out for bass player. The C. (In Burton C. Bell) stands for Christopher. Burton has a twin brother, Ben, who sings in a country band. Burton's in Nirvana's "Smells like teen spirit" video. Burtonss really into Star Trek and into Nick Cave. Dino collects all sorts of porn. Dino stars in the porn movie "Crew Sluts: Tales From The Road". Dino's father and brother played professional baseball in Mexico. Christian Olde Wolbers and Raymond Herrera are married. Dino and Burton aren't married. Nobody in the band has any kids. Fear Factory started Halloween 1990, they wrote "Suffer Age" that night. Andrew Shives only played bass on one song, "Sangro de Ninos", but he did play bass on tour before Christian. Raynor Diego played keyboard on tour before Rhys Fulber, and did some samples for Fear Is The Mind Killer. You can almost call Rhys Fulber a member, since he toured with the band, did most of the remixes on Remanufacture, all of the remixes on Fear Is The Mindkiller, played keyboard on Demanufacture and Obsolete and produced Demanufacture and Obsolete. Dino Cazares got Coal Chamber and Spineshank signed to Roadrunner Records. "Why was Andrew Shives fired?" "He`s a dick." - Dino "He`s an asshole." - Burton "This is a song you'll never see played on MTV.  FUCK MTV!!" -Burton   Replica, whose lyrics were written from the viewpoint of a loveless being born of violence and rape, was banned by MTV because the song is pro-choice and was filmed in a morgue. The title of Pisschrist was taken from a photo by controversial photographer Andre Serrano. "He got a government grant to fund a project and he came back with this picture of a crucifix in a jar of piss. He got a lot of flak from the moral majority and religious groups, they all came down on him and that was what the song was about. The song is questioning the power of religion" explains Burton Fear Factory's old keyboard player, Reynor Diego, came up with the perfect nickname for Dino: Self Diet Resistor. This will occasionally turn up on a set list, but not so often now that Reynor is no longer with the band Your Mistake is a cover of an Agnostic Front song from their Cause For Alarm album. Freddie Cricien from Madball is the guest vocalist on Fear Factory's version In mid 1996, FF had to cancel a tour of Australia after Burton developed a strange throat ailment. They went back and made the shows up a few months later Self Bias Resistor was loosely based on the movie Closet Land In january 1993, Brutal Truth and Fear Factory jammed live onstage for about ten minutes in Florence, Italy, under the name Leccaculo (asslicker in Italian). They played for about ten minutes with Raymond on drums, Dino on guitar, Kev Sharp on vocals, S. Lewis on vocals, Dan Lilker on bass, and Burton grinding a steel hammer and lapping wheel so that it threw sparks into the audience. The played grindcore, and Dino did a solo!!!!!!!! It has been rumoured that Burton has three testicles In early 1991, they released a seven song demo A few months later they did a sixteen song demo, and it was this which secured them a deal with Roadrunner Records Burton based the lyrics for Martyr on a Nirvana song he had stuck in his head at the time of writing. He didn't know the lyrics and was singing them incorrectly. when he discovered what the real lyrics were, he kept his version for the FF song. Scapegoat was based on a situation that happened to Dino where he was wrongly arrested and imprisoned for a crime he didn't have any knowledge of The sample "Hey soldier, do you know who's in command here?" from Crisis is from the movie Apocalypse Now The "This is my rifle..." sample from Crisis is from the movie Full Metal Jacket "I want more life. Fucker." at the end of Flesh Hold is a sample of Rutger Hauer from the movie Bladerunner The "What is your major malfunction..." sample in Suffer Age is from the movie Full Metal Jacket