What was it like working the new Fear Factory album?

RHYS: "I did all the keyboards and mixed it. It was great, we're friends. I just went to upstate New York and recorded all the keyboards and sample with them. We had to remix the whole album because the producer kind of botched it so me and Greg Reely went down to LA and we mixed the whole album. And now it's done, and it's quite the thing in Europe."

You seem to have had a big effect on their sound.

RHYS: "It's totally part of their image and sound now. We're all really good friends so it's great and we want to see everyone do well. They are starting to really explode in Europe so I'm happy for them."

They seem to be the opposite of bands like NIN and Ministry, who start out with electronics and then add guitars.

RHYS: "Dino's guitar playing, it's really hard to play like Dino, and the drummer's a freak. It is all real, that's not programming, and he plays like that live. That's why I really like that music in a lot of ways, it doesn't have as much gimmickry."

Will your new project sound at all like that?

RHYS: "It will be a lot more diverse, I think. I'm really into orchestral, epic ambient kind of stuff. It won't be anything like any of that stuff. It will have elements of all that, but it won't be like ...... I don't know, it's hard to explain."