Divine Heresy is an American metal band formed by founder of Fear Factory, guitarist Dino Cazares. Although the band’s origins trace back to 2002, Divine Heresy was officially formed in 2006. The band currently consists of guitarist Cazares, former Vital Remains drummer and current World Under Blood drummer Tim Yeung, former Nile bassist Joe Payne and vocalist Travis Neal. Tommy “Vext” Cummings was fired from Divine Heresy following an onstage altercation on April 26, 2008. After holding Auditions for a new frontman for the band, it was announced on August 14 that The Bereaved vocalist Travis Neal is to fill the position.
The band’s debut album Bleed the Fifth was released on August 28, 2007, and sold 2,700 copies in its first week. Receiving generally positive reviews, Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic commented the album “strikes a near-perfect balance between confirmation and innovation”, while Dom Lawson of Metal Hammer commented “All in all, the portly pioneer [Cazares] has hit the bull’s-eye”.
A lot of bands hate shooting videos. Here’s why. Everyone in the band has to set up in some sort of soundstage or outdoor location (often in intense cold or heat) and pretend to play their instruments and sing for hours at a time while a camera shoots them from every possible angle and stuff explodes all around them.
If you think that’s bad, consider what Divine Heresy underwent while they shot their “Bleed the Fifth” video. Since the song was recorded for the band’s 2007 album Bleed the Fifth, singer Tommy Cummings has left the band. So, before they went in to shoot the video, Divine Heresy had to re-record the vocals for the track with their new singer Travis Neal before they could make the video.
Dino Cazares said: “The original concept for the ‘Bleed The Fifth’ video was just to have a stripped down, in your face performance clip that was as unrelenting as the song itself. We shot it on a green screen and all of the effects were added in post production, which was very odd considering we are jamming out in front of a blank wall not having any idea how everything was going to look.
We are so confident with our choice of a new vocalist that we decided to re-record the track with his vocals and cut together a new performance clip with him. In the end, everything worked out perfectly and we think we delivered a pretty intense clip that is very indicative of the tenacity of a Divine Heresy live performance.
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