They used a drum machine on 2012's The Industrialist - a move that was slammed by former sticksman Raymond Herrera, who called the sound "stale."
And Cazares agrees that live drumming gives the record a more "natural feeling." He tells Horns Up Rocks: "Obviously, when you start recording, you can add and manipulate the sounds any way you want.
"It's a hybrid between organic and digital - that's what this record sounds like, and I think that's what makes it really good. Albums like Demanufacture and Obsolete were the same type of hybrid, and that was the approach we took on the drums on this record."
Cazares hasn't confirmed which track features Castronovo. But he believes the album title reflects its conceptual nature: "Genexus is 'genesis' and 'nexus' together. Genesis is obviously the beginning of time, and nexus is things coming together. So it's a combination of where we started from and where we are now." Read more and watch the full interview here.
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