Kill to Believe
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"Kill to Believe" is a single
by Orange County
metalcore
band Bleeding Through
released in 2006 by Trustkill Records
. It is the first from their 2006 album The Truth
.
Bassist Ryan Wombacher has stated that this is his favorite song off the album because "it shows both sides of... we're still sticking with what we sound like but I think that's the song that it's gonna kind of tell what BT is gonna come to be in the next five more years. Yeah, it's a little more mainstream but we still have the heavy parts and the more metal parts. And then, Brandan gets to show more of his singing vocals which he’s gotten a lot better at I think personally in the last three years."
and filmed in the California desert. It is part one of a two-part, story-based video, the second part being the music video for "Love in Slow Motion
". As frontman Brandan Schieppati
said it is "a sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre
meets The Devil's Rejects
", interlaced with performance footage of the band.
The video opens with two sinister backwoods brothers driving in the California desert talking about what to do with the box that lies in the back of their flat truck. They finally decide to sink it to the bottom of the river. Then a flashback
shows vocalist Brandan Schieppati and his on-screen bride, actress Susannah Mills breaking down in front of a diner that includes patrons chained to their tables. Keyboardist Marta Peterson plays a knife wielding psychotic waitress and her two brothers, the ones we see at the beginning of the video, are also there. Brandan is then overpowered by the backwoods sadists. At the end the truck is shown again and we see that the box falls off the back. Apparently Brandan was in it, because we see him escape. The final scene sees him gleaming two foot tire jack in hand going back into the diner to save his bride from the sinister clutches of the villains.
Merck explained how he came up with the concept; "When we met with the band they explained that a number of their peers were going the rock & roll route with their music and getting more polished," he said. "With this album they were returning to a rawer and darker sound. I took that to mean instead of doing a bigger and glossier video that we return to the roots of the gritty and lo-fi horror movies that inspired us as kids."
Schieppati explained that the they did a two-part video because "a lot of videos nowadays are just bands playing in a forest or a warehouse, so I wanted to do a Rob Zombie
-ish horror movie video, basically a mini movie".
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
by Orange County
Orange County, California
Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California. Its county seat is Santa Ana. As of the 2010 census, its population was 3,010,232, up from 2,846,293 at the 2000 census, making it the third most populous county in California, behind Los Angeles County and San Diego County...
metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...
band Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through
Bleeding Through is an American metalcore band from Orange County, California. Formed in 1999, the band blends influences stemming from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal...
released in 2006 by Trustkill Records
Trustkill Records
Trustkill Records was an American record label that started as a hardcore punk fanzine in April 1993. It started releasing hardcore, metal and rock records and merchandise in 1994...
. It is the first from their 2006 album The Truth
The Truth (Bleeding Through album)
The Truth is the fourth album by American metalcore band Bleeding Through, as well as their second album released through Trustkill Records. The album was released on January 10, 2006, produced by Rob Caggiano, lead guitarist of Anthrax....
.
Bassist Ryan Wombacher has stated that this is his favorite song off the album because "it shows both sides of... we're still sticking with what we sound like but I think that's the song that it's gonna kind of tell what BT is gonna come to be in the next five more years. Yeah, it's a little more mainstream but we still have the heavy parts and the more metal parts. And then, Brandan gets to show more of his singing vocals which he’s gotten a lot better at I think personally in the last three years."
Music video
A music video was shot for the song directed by Zach Merck and Kevin LeonardKevin Leonard
Kevin Leonard is a journalist and reporter for BBC news online and the BBC Wales Today news programme.-References:...
and filmed in the California desert. It is part one of a two-part, story-based video, the second part being the music video for "Love in Slow Motion
Love in Slow Motion
"Love in Slow Motion" is the second single by American metalcore band, Bleeding Through, from their 2006 album, The Truth.-Music video:The music video shot for the song was directed by Zach Merck and Kevin Leonard and filmed in the California desert. It is the sequel to the band's previous video...
". As frontman Brandan Schieppati
Brandan Schieppati
Brandan Schieppati is the singer of metalcore band Bleeding Through. He is Straight Edge and lives in Orange County with his wife Nicole. While best known through his musical career, he was also a late-round draft pick for Major League Baseball's Montreal Expos out of high school, around 1998...
said it is "a sort of Texas Chainsaw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is a 1974 American independent horror film directed and produced by Tobe Hooper, who cowrote it with Kim Henkel. It stars Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, and Gunnar Hansen, who respectively portray Sally Hardesty, Franklin Hardesty, the...
meets The Devil's Rejects
The Devil's Rejects
The Devil's Rejects is a 2005 American horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and the sequel to his 2003 film House of 1000 Corpses. The film is about the family of psychopathic killers from the previous film now on the run...
", interlaced with performance footage of the band.
The video opens with two sinister backwoods brothers driving in the California desert talking about what to do with the box that lies in the back of their flat truck. They finally decide to sink it to the bottom of the river. Then a flashback
Flashback (narrative)
Flashback is an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point the story has reached. Flashbacks are often used to recount events that happened before the story’s primary sequence of events or to fill in crucial backstory...
shows vocalist Brandan Schieppati and his on-screen bride, actress Susannah Mills breaking down in front of a diner that includes patrons chained to their tables. Keyboardist Marta Peterson plays a knife wielding psychotic waitress and her two brothers, the ones we see at the beginning of the video, are also there. Brandan is then overpowered by the backwoods sadists. At the end the truck is shown again and we see that the box falls off the back. Apparently Brandan was in it, because we see him escape. The final scene sees him gleaming two foot tire jack in hand going back into the diner to save his bride from the sinister clutches of the villains.
Merck explained how he came up with the concept; "When we met with the band they explained that a number of their peers were going the rock & roll route with their music and getting more polished," he said. "With this album they were returning to a rawer and darker sound. I took that to mean instead of doing a bigger and glossier video that we return to the roots of the gritty and lo-fi horror movies that inspired us as kids."
Schieppati explained that the they did a two-part video because "a lot of videos nowadays are just bands playing in a forest or a warehouse, so I wanted to do a Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...
-ish horror movie video, basically a mini movie".