Blasting-Zone.com recently caught up with DIVINE HERESY / ex-FEAR FACTORY guitarist Dino Cazares. The following is an excerpt from the interview:

Q: What was the main inspiration behind the name Divine Heresy? It would seem it’s exact origin and meaning have caused more than a little confusion…

Dino: "In the Bible, divine is something that is big and God-like, and heresy is against that. If you’re talking about Christianity, it’s someone who speaks against Christianity. It’s like blasphemy, but blasphemy is more like cussin’ the church out. Heresy isn’t necessarily offensive, it’s just something against it. It’s kinda like good and evil. We’re not angry about Christianity, it’s just all about the battle between good and evil. It’s just a good story, that’s all that it is.”

Q: Overall, how would you describe your experiences working with (Bleed The Fifth producer and acclaimed former MACHINE HEAD / MEDICATION axeman) Logan Mader?

Dino: “Logan Mader was really cool. I stared working with him when we did the Roadrunner All Stars together. From there, we did some early demos with Divine Heresy and then I worked with him on the ASESINO record Cristo Satanic. Then we did some more demos for Divine Heresy, so it was only natural for me to use him for the whole album. It’s a co-producer thing. Basically, Logan and I co-produced it. My biggest challenge was finding the time. I’ve been so busy doing my other projects. I’ve been talkin’ about doin’ Divine Heresy since 2002. Ever since I’ve been out of FF, I’ve been talkin’ about doin’ it, ya know? But I was doing other stuff with BRUJERIA, Asesino and the Roadrunner All Stars. Finally, I said ‘Enough is enough with these projects. I need to put a real fuckin’ band together…’ If I want Divine Heresy to be a success, I really need to focus on it. This is what I really want to do right now.”

Q: Any idea what type of set list you’ll be working with? Any truth to the rumors that you’ll be including a Fear Factory song amid the set?

Dino: “That’s a good question. We’ve been thinkin’ about that a lot. We’ll definitely play the whole record, but the record’s only forty five minutes long, so we’ll need to add a couple of songs in there. We don’t exactly know what songs we’re gonna add, but… We actually have three B-Sides that we didn’t put on the record that we might do. We might do those songs live, I’m not sure. There’s been talk about us doing a Fear Factory song, but I don’t really know yet.”

Go to this location for the complete interview.