Kill to Believe

Infobox Single
Name = Kill to Believe


Cover size =
Caption =
Artist = Bleeding Through
from Album = The Truth
A-side =
B-side =
Released = 2006
Format = CD
Recorded = Room of Doom, Irvine, CA, 2005
Genre = Metalcore
Length = 3:57
Label = Trustkill Records / Roadrunner Records
Writer = Bleeding Through
Producer = Rob Caggiano
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "On Wings of Lead"
(2003)
This single = "Kill to Believe"
(2006)
Next single = "Love in Slow Motion"
(2006)
Misc =

"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."cite news|title=FourteenG Metal Webzine - Interview with Ryan Wombacher|author= Omowale, Karma E.|publisher=FourteenG Metal Webzine|url=http://www.fourteeng.net/bleedingthrough2.html|accessdate=2007-06-22|date=2006-02-26]

Music video

A music video was shot for the song directed by Zach Merck and Kevin Leonard 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 bandcite news|title=MTV News - Metal File: Bleeding Through, Himsa, Anthrax & More In This Week's Hard News|author=Harris, Chris and Wiederhorn, Jon|publisher=MTV|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1517748/20051208/bleeding_through.jhtml|accessdate=2007-06-22|date=2005-12-08] .

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 sunk 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."cite web|title=Blabbermouth.net - BLEEDING THROUGH Film 'Love In Slow Motion' Video|publisher=Blabbermouth.net|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=54003|accessdate=2007-06-22|date=2006-06-21]

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".cite news|title=SMNnews.com - The Undeniable Truth: An Interview With Brandan Schieppati of Bleeding Through|author=Hoyt, Dan|publisher=SMNnews.com|url=http://www.smnnews.com/2007/02/15/bleeding-through-brandon-schieppati-vocals/|accessdate=2007-06-22|date=2007-02-15]

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxtoc2fKHeg Kill to Believe video on YouTube]

References