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That Dino Cazares is an important figure in the metal scene is, I believe, beyond dispute. Not only for founding part of the forerunners of industrial metal, the Fear Factory, but also for the number and variety of projects he has been involved in or created, leaving an unmistakable mark, always experimenting with different musical genres, yet constantly challenging himself.
The Divine Heresy could, even judging by the lineup, represent not another band of Dino Cazares but the ultimate band, the project that concludes the wandering and musical exploration of an artist who transitioned from the pure and archetypal industrial of Fear Factory through the brutal, extreme, devastating death/grind phase, first in Brujeria and then in Asesino. Regarding "Bleed the Fifth," after turning off the album, arriving at the overall description, the Fear Factory echo remains, but I still have, besides the 8-string of the aforementioned Cazares, the stunning drumming of Tim Young in my ears (this album is marked by his dominant and varied use of the double bass drum) and the encouraging performance in clean vocals by the newcomer Tommy Vext (in the title track, in Failed Creation, in Rise of the Scorned, also in the powerful and impactful Impossible Is Nothing in the same magnificent Closure).
And yet... and yet we are not talking about a masterpiece, I believe we can talk about an album that is just above average. I don't want to take the place of the artists and I don't have the immodesty to determine what this album is missing, but I paid 17 euros and I expected less plastic and more soul. As for the genre, I don't believe it falls within metalcore (as I read somewhere), especially if the term's most derogatory meaning is intended, because the ideas are there and the names involved in the project show that they also have the means and skills to implement them. I think it can be defined as a product of a fast and melodic industrial-death with only hinted power, in short, nothing to do with SYL. I believe this debut album is a trial shot, something that peeked out to spy on the record market, which, in my opinion, is too poor today of true, new, and serious proposals, saturated with clones, useless projects, bands that had put good ideas into music but were then directed towards MTV and the money of so-called easy and commercial music.
Let's hope that Divine Heresy goes in the opposite direction because a record market without Divine Heresy would not be better but deprived of an idea that needs to grow, gain depth and substance and who knows... maybe tomorrow we'll talk about a masterpiece... maybe Dino Cazares will have lost weight and the voice of Tommy Vext will shake the world, maybe Tim Yeung won't waste time engaging in speed races with the double pedal, maybe CDs will cost two euros... perhaps I'm daydreaming about a better world, anyway... who knows... impossible is nothing...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Failed Creation (03:37)
Failed creation
In all his arrogance
Revelation has prophesied retribution
A plague of suffering
Castigations
Open your fucking eyes
Open your fucking eyes
Open your fucking eyes
Seas wash us away
Wars being waged
Famine stricken cultures still enslaved
Blind to the signs
A fate we've contrived
Marching headfirst into this...
Grand damnation
The final holocaust
Casting us as one into abyss
Submerged beneath oceans of self-disgust
All forsaken
And burning for their lies
And burning for their lies
Open your fucking eyes
Seas wash us away
Wars being waged
Famine stricken cultures still enslaved
Blind to the signs
A fate we've contrived
Marching toward the...
End of time
Are we so blind to the signs?
Suffer the fate we've contrived
Descending hollow shells
Precipitation of shrapnel
Falling from the sky
Chemical gassing the terrified masses
Engulfing the world in denial
Absolution cleansing their wicked minds
Extradition for sins comprised
Penitence, man kneeling before his cross
Ask yourself where...
Where does his judgment lie?
Where does his judgment lie?
Open your fucking eyes
Seas wash us away
Wars being waged
Famine stricken cultures still enslaved
Blind to the signs
A fate we've contrived
Marching toward the...
End of time
Are we so blind to the signs?
Suffer the fate we've contrived
This time their lies
Rendering our senses so blind
Suffer this fate we've contrived
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By Alì Murtacc
"Bleed the Fifth is an excellent modern death metal album that bodes well for the future."
"The extremely high groove and the rubbery and distorted sound of Cazares' guitar make the songs highly enjoyable and never boring."
