A short audio sample from the FEAR FACTORY formation featuring original members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals), with bassist Byron Stroud (Fear Factory, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, ZIMMERS HOLE) and drummer Gene Hoglan (Strapping Young Lad, DETHKLOK, DEATH, TESTAMENT), is available in the YouTube clip, below.

As previously reported, ARKAEA guitarist / Fear Factory bassist Christian Olde Wolbers is featured in a new interview with KNAC.com discussing the band's debut album, Years In The Darkness, and the future of Fear Factory. An excerpt is available below.

KNAC.com: The reformation of the original Fear Factory could still happen?

Wolbers: "Yeah, you’re hoping as much as I am (laughs)."

KNAC.com: It’s well-reported that Burton [C Bell] and Dino [Cazares] have mended fences, so to speak.

Wolbers: "It’s good that they’re friends again. I can’t say anything bad about that. They were originally the two that had the issue and that’s why Fear Factory had to continue with the lineup that we know today. That they’re good friends again and that they want to get Fear Factory going again, it’s up to them, but obviously there’s a lot of other intentions going on from their camp, so that’s why we ended up in a huge lawsuit and a legal battle. Until all that gets resolved, then nobody’s going on tour with anything."

KNAC.com: What happened that made the band break?

Wolbers: "Burton was doing his own side project, his own solo thing, and being a family man as well. After a while we were writing songs and we just felt—me and Raymond could tell--that we weren’t going to be making a Fear Factory record anytime soon. And then there were all these demands. Burton came back with these different demands of what he wanted, and Ray and I were definitely not seeing eye to eye with him on a lot of issues and business issues. Ray and I wanted what was best for the business and what he [Burton] was trying to change wasn’t really good for the business. It was only bad for the business, so that’s why he went into that whole phase of hijacking the name and trying to run with it (laughs)."

KNAC.com: So, right now Fear Factory is defunct until further notice, with the four of you as equal shareholders, split into two bands. That’s the way it’s going to stay for a while.

Wolbers: "Until everything legally gets resolved on who can do what with the name and tour under what entity we have no idea until our lawyers come to an agreement."

Go to this location for the complete interview.