In another comment, he added, “I just wish he would’ve taken care of his voice over the years, like Mike Patton who screams like crazy and Corey Taylor and Howard Jones who both do screams and melodic singing. Those guys prove it can be done.”
He then went on to allege that the singer had not taken care of his instrument, saying, “If I was a singer I would take care of my voice and not drink hard alcohol, do drugs or smoke. You have to learn how to adapt to your old age. A million singers do it. And million don’t and just have issues.”
Burton quit the LA cyber-metallers at the end of September, saying, “I cannot align myself with someone whom I do not trust, nor respect,” following the news that after some hefty, long and expensive legal wranglings, Dino had “100 per cent control” of the FF name.
He recently released the second album by his band Ascension Of The Watchers, APOCRYPHA. A less metal proposition than Fear Factory, more in line with bands like Killing Joke, Burton explained where he is in 2020 to Kerrang!, and the direction he’s taken with his new music.