Fear Factory tard-out explained

I guess it's from this podcast:

After I came back with FEAR FACTORY, we released four records. Me and Burton got sued by Christian and Raymond for monies owed. We owed them money. I ended up beating my lawsuit against those guys, but Burton ended up losing his lawsuit against those guys and has to pay them a million dollars.

Burton filed for bankruptcy, and when he filed for bankruptcy, he tried to get out of paying those guys. And, unfortunately, he lied in his bankruptcy. That's a federal offense. Raymond and Christian took him back to court, made him open up the bankruptcy. The bankruptcy was null and void. So Burton had to pay back those guys, and they took all of Burt's assets. Assets, meaning whatever you own, whether it's a house, a car, a trademark, copyright, business, so on and so on. They took all that away from him for lying in court.

When I found out that Burton's assets were up for sale, my lawyer contacted the court of Pennsylvania and said, 'Hey, look, we're interested in buying this FEAR FACTORY trademark,' Burton's half. At this point, I owned half and Burton owned half. Raymond and Christian did not own the name at all whatsoever. They were only owed money. That's it. But they didn't own the trademark. Even though they tried to take the trademark from us and try to find every possible way to do that. 'Cause that's what lawyers do, right? They were not successful. So, the bankruptcy court owned Burton's half of the trademark. They put it up for sale. It's like eBay. They auction it off. So I had to place a bid if I wanted that trademark. And that's what I did. I put a bid up. Now, Burton couldn't buy his own assets back because he already lied in court. It was a federal offense. So he couldn't buy his assets back. So he didn't even have the opportunity to do that legally. I figured, 'Hey, I'm gonna try to buy this name.' And I wanted to bring Burton and say, 'Hey, look, I got the name. Let's just continue.' So I put a bid up for the trademark. They wanted a lot of money for it. And Raymond and Christian put a bid up for it as well. But eventually I ended up winning the bid, I ended up winning the auction, and I owned Burton's half of the name, which meant I owned full 100 percent of the trademark of FEAR FACTORY.

So I reached out to Burton and I said, 'Hey, just come back 50-50,' which I found out technically, even though I bought Burton's 50 percent of the trademark, I couldn't give it to him. I couldn't legally buy it and then give it to him because if I did, then that means I was colluding and buying a name and just giving it to him. It goes against what the court's orders were. So I couldn't even do that, but I could pay Burton 50 percent of whatever we earned as FEAR FACTORY. Now there was a problem with that. The problem was Raymond and Christian froze his assets.

If Burton would have come back to FEAR FACTORY, whatever he earns from FEAR FACTORY, a percentage of that would have to go to Raymond and Christian to pay back the million of dollars," Cazares explained. "So Burton didn't wanna go out there on tour and [be] working his butt off and having to pay those guys a percentage of what he earns on tour. Basically, whatever money is earned from Burton Bell's name in FEAR FACTORY, that goes to Raymond and Christian. So in other words, if the song 'Replica' earns money on Spotify, that money goes to Raymond and Christian's lawyers.

Listen, sure, it's easy for all four of us to get together, but it wouldn't be easy to do business with them, it wouldn't be easy to write songs with them and it wouldn't be easy because somebody would have to be in control of that ship and that would be me. Not anybody else. That's not gonna work. Look what happened to JANE'S ADDICTION.

My chains are paper thin and they're welded with ink

Sealed inside a legal trap, so tight blood don't leak

A contract with a devil for a life of disdain

See me in the limelight, an indentured slave

I blame myself