Divine Heresy

[movieme07]

I listened to their album Bleed the Fifth (their debut) and I think it's safe to say that Fear Factory is dead, long live Divine Heresy. I'm one of those that although I will always love Fear Factory (or at least most of them) they've been dying since Dino left. This album quite frankly kicks ass, I was amazed at how well the vocalist (Vext?) translated from growling death metal vocals to clean singing, he almost does it as well as Burton did early on. Dino is amazing as always, and the drummer (whose name I can't remember) is fantastic. Just great, totally made up for me walking twenty minutes in the freezing cold to my only class of the day only to discover it was cancelled.

[MISFITS_Fiend]

I've got this album on my Ipod; it's pretty decent. The Fear Factory influence (due to the drummer) is inescapable, but there's enough originality to it that you can tell it isn't FF. Good music to work out to.

[countchocula]

Ah, the "Dino is running out of Fear Factory royalty checks" album. It's very generic. The Vext guy sounds like every other new age screamer. Clearly, Dino's death metal projects aren't paying his bills (or feeding his porn addiction), so he had to crank out an accessible, yet heavy-enough-to-seem-underground album. I don't like it. As for Fear Factory, I'll give them one more chance to blow me away. Archetype kicked ass, but Transgression was a rushed crapshoot.

[Ratlehed]

I have the DH album and saw them live when they opened for Static-X. They are a pretty solid band and thier debut CD is pretty good. Thier live sound is decent. The singer had a broken ankle but pulled of a good performance in his cast. Dino was hanging out before the show and signing postcards for everyone. I was hoping they'd cover FF, but they didnt. I doubt Divine Heresy will ever put an album out as good as Fear Factorys "Demanufacture", "Obsolete", or "Archetype". But hopefully they stick around for awhile. The singer is good but not nearly as good as the Fear Factorys vocalist.

I talked to Fear Factory singer Burton Bell and former FF keyboardist John Bechdel at a recent Prong show. They both are on the new Ministry CD and will be touring with Ministry when they go on tour. Both guys also make up Ascension of the Watchers. They are putting out a new album soon as well. The FF guitarist and drummer started a punk band with former Suicidal Tendencies guitarist Rocky George. So I am guessing it will be a LONG time before we see Fear Factory again.