Dino Cazares took to X and shared his problem with Fear Factory’s ‘Back the F*ck Up’ from the 2021 album ‘Digimortal.’
When a fan asked, “You didn’t like ‘Back the f*ck up’?” the guitarist replied, “Don’t get it twisted, I never said I disliked the song. I said I didn’t like for it to be featured on the album, IMO it should have been a B-Side or a extra bonus track.”
In the comments, another fan said, “Was there ever a song you got tired of playing live? Like I can assume you got tired of playing songs off the really early albums after playing those said songs for years and years on end?”
“No I love them all,” Cazares responded to the question. ‘Back the F*ck Up’ was the only song in the album not written by the Fear Factory members. Rapper B-Real wrote the track.
In a 2022 interview with Sense Music Media, Dino was asked which songs he wrote he felt deserved the Fear Factory name the least. The musician explained, “[Laughs] I don’t really trash-talk that stuff, because it’s still part of the catalogue, you know what I mean? Sure, I might not like certain parts of those records, but whatever, it doesn’t matter.”
He continued, “Of the stuff that I’ve created – well, the stuff that I helped create – one of the songs was called ‘Back the F*ck Up.’ It’s not that it’s a bad track, I just thought it was a bad track for the album. It should’ve been put as a B-side or, you know, an extra track or a bonus track or something like that.”
“Another track, which is going to be kind of odd for me to say, and it’s the reason why the song is so far back in the record, is the title track to ‘Obsolete.’ The actual song called ‘Obsolete.’ It’s probably one of my least favourite. The riff is pretty cool, the beat’s pretty cool, but I just think overall the song is not that great,” he also talked about another track.
Cazares concluded, “Those are probably my two, out of the songs that I’ve wrote, that are probably my least favourite. Don’t get me wrong, it could be somebody’s favourite track.”
B-Real from Cypress Hill is featured as a guest vocalist on ‘Back the F*ck Up,’ and he adds a hardcore hip-hop touch. Cazares and Olde Wolbers had appeared on Cypress Hill’s 2000 album ‘Skull & Bones.’