Dino Cazares

Dino Cazares is one of those musicians who did not follow a trend but actually built one. Co-founding Fear Factory, he helped define industrial metal's machine-tight aggression, and his early embrace of digital amp modelling and seven and eight-string guitars reshaped how heavy music sounds today. I respect innovators who tinker with tools others ignore, and his fingerprints are all over modern metal's low-end. Juggling Brujeria, Asesino and Divine Heresy on top of that shows a restless, relentless work ethic. To me he is a craftsman first, a pioneer second, and both qualities are rare enough to celebrate.

Name (English)

Dino Cazares

Name (Japanese)

ディーノ・カザレス

Reading

でぃーの・かざれす

Born

September 2, 1966 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Horse

Origin

El Centro, California, United States

Occupation

guitarist / composer / record producer / musician

• Official sitehttps://www.dinocazares.com
• Xhttps://x.com/DinoCazares
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino%20Cazares
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AB%E3%82%B6%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944494

Tags

• California
• guitarist
• composer
• record producer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.