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Bleed the Fifth

2007 studio album by Divine Heresy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Bleed the Fifth is the debut studio album by American metal band Divine Heresy, released in August 2007. It sold approximately 2,700 copies in its first week of release. The album name is a play on the American judicial system Fifth Amendment. It is the only album to feature original vocalist Tommy Vext who later departed from the band after an on-stage altercation.

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The public source identifies “Bleed the Fifth” as 2007 studio album by Divine Heresy. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Bleed, Fifth and studio.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2007—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Bleed, Fifth and studio providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2025. The first chronological checks are 2007.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bleed the Fifth” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.