Cazares and drummer Raymond Herrera formed Fear Factory in 1989 under the name Ulceration. However, it was renamed to their current name Fear Factory in the following year. The band's first album, Soul of a New Machine, was dedicated to Cazares' mother, Natividad, and older brother, Joey. Before joining Fear Factory, Cazares was in the grindcore band Excruciating Terror. The Mexican death/grind side-project Brujeria formed later on with members of Faith No More, Fear Factory, and others.
When Fear Factory split up (temporarily) in 2002, Cazares returned to Brujeria, and released what was supposed to be the first of 13 Demoniaco Brujeria records (one for each member of Brujeria). Asesino (which featured Static-X bassist Tony Campos on bass and vocals, and Raymond Herrera on drums. Fear Factory reformed later that year without Cazares and with bassist Christian Olde Wolbers becoming the new guitarist for the band.
In 2005, Cazares was chosen as a team captain by Roadrunner A&R Monte Conner for the Roadrunner United album which he wrote 4 songs and contributed with other Roadrunner Records artists.
Dino is now busy with his group Divine Heresy which he has signed to Roadrunner Records and Century Media Records. He will be joined by Tim Yeung (All That Remains, Hate Eternal, Nile, Vital Remains) on drums and had included newcomer Tommy Vext on vocals until he was fired from the band in April 2008. Jake Veredika, formerly of the Washington DC band Periphery, has been hired as the singer for their tour with Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquility, and Firewind but the band will decide after this tour if Veredika will be the new permanent singer. [3] The band's debut "Bleed The Fifth" is set for release on August 27th (Europe) and August 28th (USA). "Bleed The Fifth" was produced by Dirty Icon and Lucas Banker. The cover art has been developed by Joachim Luetke (Manson, Sopor Aeternus, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy). According to Metal Maniacs, during a recent live show he described Divine Heresy as "similar to Fear Factory" but that it "isn't just as good as Fear Factory". Shortly thereafter, he rejoined with Fear Factory.
Dino was recently seen playing "Replica" with Dutch symphonic metal band Epica on September 25th as [4] well as doing a tribute with his band Divine Heresy As of April 2009 he has rejoined Fear Factory[5].