Your music has diversified quite a bit since your first album. Have you seen a change in the types of fans you have?

Dino: "I feel that definitely Fear Factory can appeal to a lot of people, especially some of the songs on the new record. Plus, we've also done other things to appeal to different people. We've done remixes. In 1992, we did 'Fear is the Mindkiller,' trying techno remixes of metal music. That was even before bands like Prodigy were doing it. We also released 'Remanufacture' - that definitely broadened Fear Factory even more. So it kind of made some metal kids more open-minded, and it made some of the people who were into techno and rave stuff more interested in what Fear Factory is about. So we definitely see different crowds at our shows, but the majority of the crowds are people who like metal music."

What inspired you to get into remixes and adding electronics?

Dino: "I believe that music is always about taking chances. When we first came out with 'Soul Of A New Machine,' it was definitely in the death metal vein. It was an era when Napalm Death and bands like that where big. That, and being a big fan of electronic music - Skinny Puppy, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle - and being a big fan of rave music, like Meat Beat Manifesto and the Prodigy and so on. I go, 'What happens if you combine all three of those?' So we did. That's where 'Fear is the Mindkiller' was born. That, to me, was like the first of what I think a lot of people were trying to convey. I really can't think of anyone else who was doing it that extreme. Sure, there were remixes of Ministry and stuff like that, but nothing as extreme. Having the open mind carried us all the way until now.

"When I was a kid, I had brothers and sisters who liked so many different things. That always kept me aware of everything else that was going on out there, which made me grow to like other forms of music. Even when I was in high school, all my friends were into rock and metal, and you kind of had to be like that to fit in. I was a closet fan of everything from Madonna to Gary Numan, all kinds of other stuff, but you had to kind of keep it quiet. Later on I got older and said, 'Fuck that, that's who I like, and that's it.'"