Then you have the experiment within the music: chorus effect, acoustic guitars and other variants to assist the experiment. Best viewed without Internet Explorer, in 1280 x 960 resolution or higher. Tim Yeung, the drummer, has made his mark in bands such as Hate Eternal, Vital Remains, Aurora Borealis & Nile, and he brings a lot to the table here in Divine Heresy. Many of the solos here feel like they came right off of a real brutal death metal album and will rip your face off with their intensity and technicality. Hell, just reviewing this album was a huge chore, so now I'm going to go take some aspirin, listen to Demonical and pretend neither this band or album ever happened, and I suggest all of you do the same. That thing my friends, is brutality, and brutality is something that Divine Heresy definitely has. Dino's guitar parts are both catchy and heavy as he throws in riff after riff of interesting chunk styling. The term “poser” gets thrown around a lot these days, often without warrant, simply because some bands that aren’t metal at all are deemed metal by people who don’t know what they’re talking about. In that sense, the album is brought down already. The vocalist needs to change his style for God's sake, but the rest is just downright excellent & very heavy. However, the labeled genres and subgenres described in the music don’t see eye to eye. Why do people take this band seriously again? Tim Yeung, the drummer, has made his mark in bands such as Hate Eternal, Vital Remains, Aurora Borealis & Nile, and he brings a lot to the table here in Divine Heresy. The band isn’t trying to be metal, really, so it’s pointless to judge them as such. Right from the starting line, Divine Heresy is for the throat combining the industrialized Death Metal sound with a more Classic Metal twist. The …, Divine Heresy is an American metalcore/death metal band, formed in 2006 by. Notable tracks: Bleed the Fifth, Failed Creation, Impossible is Nothing & Rise of the Scorned. I struggled to get through this album the first time, because the further it goes on the more it just sounds like a senseless mishmash of riffs that do nothing and go nowhere over the sound of somebody hammering away on a typewriter- but it was the final song on this album that REALLY dropped my jaw. He does what he's good at, and that's machine-gun style riffage that's heavy as hell & very very potent. Sono il fuoco di tutte le intenzioni e discussioni di Cazares.1. Divine Heresy has the heart and soul of a matured band and even if the comparisons to Fear Factory never end, "Bleed the Fifth" is an accomplished andsuccessful debut. There’s plenty of what I think is a failed attempt at aggression on here- driven mainly by the not-quite-hardcore-shouts-but-not-quite-metal-growls-either vocals of the doucher singer here- combined with the lyrics that have the occasional “fuck” thrown here and there (to sound “offensive”) and have an anti-human agenda…I think? At the end of the day, it’s not really a bad record. If it were some guttural vocalist or at least someone who wasn't so core-ish, it would've been an 85 easily. Thank you. What attracted me to this album was not Dino Cazares getting back into the metal spotlight, but it being another project for drum master Tim Yeung. Sadly, Tommy isn't the only loose support beam in this band. View all reviews for Divine Heresy - Bleed the Fifth. The last track, Closure, feels out of place, as it's a Tool-esque ballad, but after all the 30 minute relentless ass-whooping, one would beg for something more subtle, and so, the ballad somehow works. The album sold approximately 2,700 copies in its first week of release. They are absolutely unnecessary to have. Even though he can sing, shout, scream and everything, I just can't stop thinking of Shadows Fall whenever he graces the mic. So there’s a lot of rhythmic guitar work from Dino and the guitar & drums combo, just like in Fear Factory. Divine Heresy is (or was) the bastard child and musical return of Dino Cazares, the original Fear Factory guitarist. Become a Fan Remove Fan. Additionally, you have the guitar solos and extra work from Marc Rizzo (known in Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy) and Logan Mader (known for his project Once Human and being the original guitarist of Machine Head) for their work in Rise of the Scorned, Royal Blood Heresy, and Closure. What Divine Heresy does make up for in is the fact that unlike many metalcore bands, they are actually heavy, and have quite a bit of skill to offer compared to other bands in their field.