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Band:Divine Heresy Album:Bleed the Fifth Record Company:Century Media Records Writer: Eric \"CFH\" Johnson Media: \"Failed Creation\" Click Album Cover To Buy Now

Five years after his departure from Fear Factory, veteran metal guitarist Dino Cazares returned to the scene in 2007 alongside fellow veteran, and former Hate Eternal drummer, Tim Yeung and newcomer vocalist Tommy Cummings to form Divine Heresy, and unleash Bleed the Fifth.

Whenever I listen to the relentless assault of an album known as Bleed the Fifth, I fondly reflect on how I found out about it and Divine Heresy. One day not too long ago, I surfed the net with a friend in search of new, kick-ass metal, and we ended up at Century Media’s website. About two seconds after we clicked the link, we were greeted by the pummeling intro riff to the disc’s title track. From there, the song continued to bludgeon everything in its path for its duration, and I realized that I had just heard one of the best brutal and technical songs imaginable. After that experience, however, I was almost afraid to buy the album because I doubted that any other song by Divine Heresy would be that fucking excellent. I now must admit that that was a big mistake since the other nine songs are all great at the very least, and four of them actually are on “Bleed the Fifth’s” level. Specifically, eight of them are nearly or fully non-stop rampages, and one is a semi-ballad. The semi-ballad is the aptly titled “Closure,” and it shows how well Divine Heresy can play a song that isn’t thoroughly brutal without pussifying it in the process. However, the band is without a doubt in its true element when it plays incessant pounders such as “Royal Blood Heresy,” “Soul Decoded,” “This Threat is Real” and the aforementioned “Bleed the Fifth.” In addition to that, Divine Heresy exhibits one of the more interesting approaches to choruses in the hauntingly melodic one for “False Gospel” and the shifting brutal riff to melodic riff and harsh vocals to clean vocals form in “Impossible is Nothing’s.” With that, what songs are as fucking excellent as “Bleed the Fifth?” “False Gospel,” “Royal Blood Heresy,” “This Threat is Real” and “Rise of the Scorned.”

Now, who will like Divine Heresy and Bleed the Fifth? I would say just about any metal fan since Dino Cazares brings Soul of a New Machine and Demanufacture-era Fear Factory, Reinventing the Steel-era Pantera and Domination-era Morbid Angel to mind in places, while Tommy Cummings’ voice hints at traces of Phil Anselmo, Robert Flynn and Howard Jones. When a band seemingly blends influences as diverse, and unmistakably metal, as those together, what’s not to like?

Band:Divine Heresy Album:Bleed the Fifth Record Company:Century Media Records Writer: Eric \"CFH\" Johnson Media: \"Failed Creation\" Click Album Cover To Buy Now

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