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“It would have been career suicide”: Fear Factory’s Dino Cazares on why he refused to audition for Limp Bizkit

A photo of Dino Cazares performing and a close-up of Fred Durst

Talking exclusively in the new issue of Metal Hammer, Dino Cazares has reflected on the time he declined an offer to audition for Limp Bizkit. The guitarist for industrial metal pioneers Fear Factory, who will this autumn tour Europe and the UK, was presented with the opportunity to play in front of the rap metal icons in 2001 and potentially replace Wes Borland. However, he shot the chance down.

When writer Matt Mills asked Dino why he wasn’t interested in rollin’ with Limp Bizkit, the guitarist replied: “Because it was in 2001 and I felt that that style of nu metal had already hit its peak.”

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