FEAR FACTORY Drummer Explains Switch To New Label Home

April 21, 2004

FEAR FACTORY drummer Raymond Herrera recently spoke to 411Mania.com about the band's decision to sign with Liquid 8 following their split with longtime label home, Roadrunner Records. "We decided to go with Liquid 8, which was originally D3 Entertainment before they were bought out," Herrera said. "Everyone there at the label knew everything about the band — things that we didn't even know! Liquid 8 already had an idea and a goal for the band and wanted to work with us because all of them were huge fans. Once we knew that, we saw something good that we could work with. We started talking with them and things got more serious and we went ahead and inked a deal. It was a smarter move for us because right now we're a big fish in a smaller bowl and therefore we have more freedom than we would at a major label. We can do things like produce our own record and not worry about whether label will accept it or not. Basically we were given the freedom to do whatever we want and not have to worry about it. We're afforded complete freedom as artists and we don't have to worry much about the business side because the label is solidly behind us, which is very good."

Regarding how the deal with Liquid 8 came about, Herrera said, "What happened with that is that we had broken up and Burt [Bell, vocals] put out the press release making it official. We went back to Roadrunner and told them that we were done and that the band was no more, but Roadrunner doesn't accept a band's breakup as a way to get out of a contract. They held us to our agreement and said that we had three more albums to go so we decided to write some music and let the label decide whether or not they would want us to record and release them. We told Burton about what happened and then we got the new music to Roadrunner, but then they didn't want to pay us for any of it since the band was not together. We had two choices — either release what we had or get dropped by the label so, since they didn't want to pay us for any of the work we did, we told the label to drop us. six months later, Roadrunner finally dropped us and that same day, it seems, other labels were ringing our phone."

Read Herrera's entire interview with 411Mania.com at this location.

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