Divine Heresy

Dino Cazares would have anchored his standing in heavy metal history through his 1990s innovations with Fear Factory, even had he stepped away entirely to raise goats in North Dakota. Among the earliest acts to weld industrial textures onto metal, the band also originated the tandem deployment of savagely growled vocals with melodic singing, an approach that proliferated throughout the 2000s. Cazares kept concurrent ties to the contentious Latino death metal ensemble Brujeria and, afterward, to its unrealized side project Asesino. Following years of reduced visibility, he launched his first major undertaking beyond Fear Factory by assembling Divine Heresy. The roster included vocalist Tommy "Vext" Cummings, bassist Joe Payne (formerly of Nile and the replacement for Risha Eryavec), and drummer Tim Yeung (whose résumé lists Vital Remains, Hate Eternal, All That Remains, and additional groups). Divine Heresy delivered its debut album, Bleed the Fifth, in 2007.